PlaceArt Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art
An encyclopedic collection on Central Park's edge, open since 1870 — Egyptian temples, European painting and American rooms under one roof.
Source: Terratlasia Editorial
40.78° N, 73.96° W

Facts
Identity
- Founded
- 1870
- Wikidata · P571 · checked 2026-09-16
- Architect
- Calvert Vaux · Jacob Wrey Mould · McKim, Mead & White · Richard Morris Hunt
- Wikidata · P84 · checked 2026-09-16
Visiting
- Typical visit
- ≈ 3 h
- Terratlasia Editorial · tahmin · checked 2026-09-16 · estimate
Opening hours and admission prices are not shown: this atlas has no current, permissively licensed source for them. Each place links to its official site, where those are correct.
On a route 2
Editorial selection from the city guide
Stop 6 of 7
Nearby 5
Straight-line distance, not travel time
- Central Park0.4 kmPark
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum0.5 kmArt Museum
- American Museum of Natural History1 kmScience Museum
- The Frick Collection1 kmArt Museum
- Museum of Modern Art2.3 kmArt Museum
Same category 6
Art Museum · same city
Sources
- Terratlasia Editorialproprietary
- WikidataCC0-1.0
- Wikimedia CommonsCC BY-SA 2.0