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Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in . By floor area, it is the fourth-largest museum in the world and the largest art museum in the Americas.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in New York City, United States
  • Also known as: “Met”, “Met Museum”, “MMA”, “The Met”, “The Met Museum”, and “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
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Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Central Park and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

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A vast green swath of open space in the heart of , is a district in its own right, neatly separating the from the , stretching from Midtown at the southern end to at the north.

Museum
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The , often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 between 88th and 89th Streets on the of in New York City. is situated 1,700 feet northeast of Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum on the of in . Located in Theodore Roosevelt Park, across the street from , the museum complex comprises 21 interconnected buildings housing 45 permanent exhibition halls, in addition to a planetarium and a library. is situated 3,200 feet west of Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Upper East Side and Upper West Side.

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The of is one of the city's wealthiest districts. Spanning the stretch of island between 59th Street to 96th Street east of , the neighborhoods of Lenox Hill, Yorkville, and Carnegie Hill are full of luxurious townhouses and apartment buildings on some of the most affluent addresses in New York.

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The covers a large area in upper bounded by 59th Street on the south, 125th Street on the north, the Hudson River on the west, and and Morningside Park on the east.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood on the of in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Latitude
40.77955° or 40° 46′ 46″ north
Longitude
-73.96292° or 73° 57′ 47″ west
Elevation
92 feet (28 metres)
Open location code
87G8Q2HP+RR
Geo­Names ID
5126698
Wiki­data ID
Q160236
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Yue Chinese—“Metropolitan Museum of Art” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Albanian: “MET”
  • Albanian: “Muzeu MET”
  • Albanian: “Muzeu Metropolitan i Artit”
  • Albanian: “Muzeu Metropolitan”
  • Arabic: “متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون”
  • Arabic: “متحف متروبوليتان”
  • Armenian: “Մետրոպոլիտեն թանգարան”
  • Assamese: “মেট্ৰ’পলিটান মিউজিয়াম অৱ আৰ্ট”
  • Asturian: “Muséu Metropolitanu d’Arte”
  • Azerbaijani: “Metropoliten muzeyi”
  • Basque: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Basque: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Belarusian: “Метраполітэн-музей”
  • Belarusian: “Музэй Мэтраполітэн”
  • Belarusian: “Мэтраполітан”
  • Belarusian: “Мэтраполітэн”
  • Bengali: “মেট্রোপলিটন মিউজিয়াম অফ আর্ট”
  • Bengali: “মেট্রোপলিটন মিউজিয়াম অব আর্ট”
  • Bosnian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Bosnian: “Metropolitan”
  • Bosnian: “Metropolitanskom muzeju umjetnosti”
  • Bulgarian: “Метрополитън”
  • Bulgarian: “Музей на изкуствата „Метрополитън””
  • Bulgarian: “Музей на изкуството „Метрополитън“”
  • Bulgarian: “Музей на изкуството „Метрополитън””
  • Bulgarian: “Музеят на изкуствата ‘Метрополитън’”
  • Bulgarian: “Музеят на изкуствата „Метрополитън””
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan Museum of Art de Nova York”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Catalan: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Catalan: “Museu metropolità d’art de Nova York”
  • Catalan: “Museu Metropolità d’Art”
  • Catalan: “Museu Metropolità de Nova York”
  • Catalan: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Central Bikol: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Central Kurdish: “مۆزەخانەی میترۆپۆلیتەنی ھونەر”
  • Chinese: “大都会博物馆”
  • Chinese: “大都会艺术博物馆”
  • Chinese: “大都會博物館”
  • Chinese: “大都會美術館”
  • Chinese: “大都會藝術博物館”
  • Chinese: “纽约大都会博物馆”
  • Croatian: “Metropolitan”
  • Croatian: “Muzej umjetnosti Metropolitan”
  • Czech: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Czech: “Metropolitní muzeum umění”
  • Danish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Dutch: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Dutch: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Dutch: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف المتروبوليتان للفنون”
  • Esperanto: “Metropola Muzeo de Arto”
  • Esperanto: “Metropolita Muzeo de Arto”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitani kunstimuuseum”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitani Kunstimuuseum”
  • Estonian: “Metropolitani muuseum”
  • Finnish: “Met”
  • Finnish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Finnish: “Metropolitanin taidemuseo”
  • French: “Le Met”
  • French: “Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York”
  • French: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • French: “musée métropolitain de l’Art”
  • French: “The Met”
  • French: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Galician: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Galician: “Museo Metropolitano de Arte”
  • Galician: “Museo Metropolitano de Nova York”
  • Georgian: “მეტი”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენი”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენის მუზეუმი”
  • Georgian: “მეტროპოლიტენის ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Met”
  • German: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • German: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • German: “The Met”
  • German: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • German: “The New York Met”
  • Greek: “Μητροπολιτικό Μουσείο Τέχνης”
  • Haitian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Hebrew: “המט”
  • Hebrew: “המטרופוליטן”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון המטרופוליטן לאומנות”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון המטרופוליטן לאמנות”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון המטרופוליטן”
  • Hindi: “मेट्रोपोलिटन कला संग्रहालय”
  • Hungarian: “Met Museum”
  • Hungarian: “Met”
  • Hungarian: “Metropolitan Művészeti Múzeum”
  • Hungarian: “MMA”
  • Hungarian: “The Met”
  • Ido: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Igbo: “Met Museum”
  • Igbo: “Met”
  • Igbo: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Igbo: “MMA”
  • Igbo: “The Met Museum”
  • Igbo: “The Met”
  • Igbo: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Indonesian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Metropolitan”
  • Irish: “an Músaem Ealaíne Meitreapholaiteach”
  • Irish: “An Músaem Ealaíne Meitreapholaiteach”
  • Irish: “MMA”
  • Irish: “The Met”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Museum di New York”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art di New York”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Italian: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Italian: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタンミュージアム”
  • Japanese: “メトロポリタン美術館”
  • Kara-Kalpak: “Metropoliten-muzey”
  • Kazakh: “Метрополитен (мұражай)”
  • Kazakh: “Метрополитен”
  • Korean: “The Met”
  • Korean: “더 멧”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 미술관”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄 박물관”
  • Korean: “메트로폴리탄미술관”
  • Latin: “Museum Artium Metropolitanum”
  • Latvian: “Met”
  • Latvian: “Metropoles mākslas muzejs”
  • Latvian: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Latvian: “MMA”
  • Latvian: “The Met”
  • Latvian: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Latvian: “The New York Met”
  • Ligurian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Lithuanian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Lithuanian: “Metropolitano muziejus”
  • Lithuanian: “Metropoliteno meno muziejus”
  • Lithuanian: “Metropoliteno muziejus”
  • Lithuanian: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Macedonian: “Метрополитен”
  • Malay: “Muzium Seni Metropolitan”
  • Malayalam: “മെട്രോപൊളിറ്റൻ മ്യൂസിയം ഒഫ് ആർട്ട്”
  • Malayalam: “മെട്രോപൊളിറ്റൻ മ്യൂസിയം ഓഫ് ആർട്ട്”
  • Mazanderani: “متروپولیتن موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Norwegian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Nyanja: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Ossetian: “Метрополитен-музей”
  • Panjabi: “ਮੈਟਰੋਪੋਲੀਟਨ ਮਿਊਜ਼ੀਅਮ ਆਫ਼ ਆਰਟ”
  • Persian: “موزه کلان‌شهری هنر”
  • Persian: “موزه متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Persian: “موزهٔ متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Persian: “موزه متروپولیتن”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر متروپلیتن”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Persian: “موزه هنر متروپولیتن”
  • Persian: “موزه هنرهای متروپولیتن نیویورک”
  • Polish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Metropolitan”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Metropolitano de Arte de Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Metropolitano de Arte”
  • Portuguese: “Museu Metropolitano de Nova Iorque”
  • Portuguese: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Romanian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Romanian: “Muzeul Metropolitan de Artă”
  • Russian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен-музей”
  • Russian: “Метрополитен”
  • Russian: “Метрополитэн”
  • Russian: “Музей «Метрополитен»”
  • Russian: “Музей Метрополитен”
  • Russian: “Музей Метрополитэн”
  • Serbian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Serbian: “Metropolitan”
  • Serbian: “Muzej Metropoliten”
  • Serbian: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Serbian: “ди Мет”
  • Serbian: “Метрополитан музеј”
  • Serbian: “Метрополитен музеј”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Метрополитан”
  • Serbian: “Музеј Метрополитен”
  • Serbian: “Музеј уметности Метрополитен”
  • Serbian: “Музеј умјетности Метрополитен”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Metropolitan”
  • Sicilian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Slovak: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Slovenian: “Metropolitanski muzej umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Spanish: “Metropolitan Museum”
  • Spanish: “MMNY”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Arte Metropolitano”
  • Spanish: “Museo Metropolitano de Arte de New York”
  • Spanish: “Museo Metropolitano de Arte de Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “Museo Metropolitano de Arte”
  • Spanish: “Museo Metropolitano de Nueva York”
  • Spanish: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Swedish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Swedish: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Tamil: “பெருநகரக் கலை அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Thai: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Thai: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์เมโทรโปลิตัน”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ศิลปะเมโทรโปลิตัน”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์ศิลปะเมโทรโพลิทัน”
  • Turkish: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Turkish: “Metropolitan Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “Metropolitan Sanat Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “New York Metropolitan Müzesi”
  • Turkish: “The Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітан музей”
  • Ukrainian: “Метрополітен-музей”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей Метрополітен”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей мистецтва Метрополітен”
  • Urdu: “میٹروپولیٹن میوزیم آف آرٹ”
  • Uzbek: “Metropoliten-muzey”
  • Uzbek: “Metropoliten-Muzey”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Met”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Metropolitan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng mỹ thuật Metropolitan”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Nghệ thuật Metropolitan”
  • Vietnamese: “Met”
  • Vietnamese: “MMA”
  • Vietnamese: “the Met”
  • Vietnamese: “Viện bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Metropolitan”
  • Welsh: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Welsh: “yr Amgueddfa Gelf Fetropolitan”
  • Welsh: “Yr Amgueddfa Gelf Fetropolitan”
  • Western Frisian: “Metropolitan Museum of Art”
  • Western Panjabi: “میٹروپولیٹن میوزیم آف آرٹ”
  • Wu Chinese: “大都会艺术博物馆”
  • Yue Chinese: “大都會藝術博物館”
  • “Metropolitan Museum of Art”

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