The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)

Title: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) Category: Museums Clicks: 1 Listing added: Dec 10, 2011

Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) includes its Main Building on Fifth Avenue and The Cloisters museum and gardens in northern Manhattan. It was created as a "national institution and gallery of art" for the American people. Today the museum includes many international and traveling exhibits, as well as exchanges, fellowships and excavations worldwide.