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| 2390 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (1) |
Posted on 19.03.2016, 13.04.2016
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States, and among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is one of the world's largest art galleries by area. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture and artifacts from Medieval Europe.
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| 2457 Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City (2) |
The museum first opened on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue. In 1880, after a brief move to the Douglas Mansion at 128 West 14th Street, the Museum opened to the public at its current site on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street. The architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould designed the initial Ruskinian Gothic structure, the west facade of which is still visible in the Robert Lehman Wing. The building has since expanded greatly, and the various additions, built as early as 1888, now completely surround the original structure.
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