This February marks the third anniversary of the Met’s Open Access program. As we cross this important milestone, we’d like to reflect on some of the goals we’ve already been able to achieve with Open Access, and share our vision for the program’s future.
Access has been a remarkable success: The Met’s artwork has reached a phenomenal 225 million
Steichen’s embrace of editorial and commercial photography in his own work—to Stieglitz’s mind, nothing less than apostasy—drove a still greater wedge between the former mentor and protégé.
of Man, a sentimental spectacle that, in various incarnations, was seen by nine million
of advisers, provincial governors, and village chiefs who ruled as many as three million
I saw the pyramids of Giza for the first time when I was fourteen and became completely enchanted with ancient Egypt.
Skip to main content For thirty million years the Nile has been flowing from Lake
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efficiency, and community outreach, doubling its endowment and raising more than $8 million
Scholars increasingly turned to the arts, the study of which was considered a path to the cultivation of the moral self.
By the late eighteenth century, China’s population had grown to about 300 million
Met director Max Hollein reflects on current discussions about cultural property, provides background on The Met collection, and previews several important initiatives.
our founders, the collection has grown to encompass 17 curatorial areas and 1.5 million
Watson Library provides Met staff, art professionals, and scholars with a collection of over 1,020,000 volumes; over 21,000 periodical titles; over 140,000 auction and sale catalogs; online journals and databases; and papers and ephemera related to artists and Museum history.
Watson Digital Collections Digital Collections Over 1.1 million pages of content
processing the film for the consumer, [George Eastman] made photography accessible to millions
the first Kodak was introduced, one photography journal estimated that over 1.5 million
combat in World War II took place on the Soviet Front, resulting in roughly thirty million
