Glass room with views of Central Park
1. sit on those stairs and eat a hot dog while you watch people go by. Almost as interesting as what awaits you inside.
two. Your “recommended” price, $25 for adults , it's not mandatory. Each visitor can pay what he wants or can. **From zero to $25 (or more)**. Each one considers what is necessary to contribute so that this Museum remains open for another 145 years.
Sit on the stairs of the MET
3. the temple of dendur and the conservatory overlooking Central Park, one of the most celebrated extensions, designed by Kevin Roche . It is one of the rooms and works that should not be missed on every visit to the Museum. Egypt gave the temple to the United States in 1965 for its help in the construction of the **Aswan Dam (as was the Debod Dam in Madrid)**, and it was installed in the Museum in 1978.
temple of dendur
It is worth getting lost among its sculptures
4.**The fence of the cathedral of Valladolid**. Yes, in the wide Medieval Hall, the center of the current building, stands out this iron and limestone grille, finished in 1763, which was a gift to the museum from the Hearst Foundation . The communications tycoon Citizen Kane de Welles, was passionate about Spanish architecture and in his heyday he bought everything he could.
5. The facade of a bank as an entrance. The Metropolitan has undergone many renovations and extensions and traces of these transformations can still be seen today in its galleries. One of them is the neoclassical façade of the Branch Bank rescued from Wall Street in the 1920s, and for a time it was one of the entrances to the Museum. It now gives way to the American Wing and is tucked into one of the large covered and glassed-in patios.
6. The Chinese courtyard garden or how to enter a completely different universe. A direct daylight reconstruction of a Suzhou Ming Dynasty courtyard.
7. A Spanish Renaissance Courtyard. Specifically that of the Velez Blanco Castle in Almeria , all marble, with a balcony dream of any Romeo and Juliet. He traveled from Almería to Paris piece by piece and from there to New York to the mansion of George Blumenthal, who later donated it to the Museum.
8.**A few cocktails at sunset at the rooftop bar. ** Open between May and October, it is one of the most serene and beautiful views of Manhattan. Every year there is a different art installation.
Rooftop of the MET
9. Enter a colorful villa in Pompeii. In a bedroom or cubiculum that belonged to the villa of P. Fannius Synistor in Boscoreale and was buried under the ashes of Vesuvius.
10. A journey to the Middle Ages. Few visitors dare to combine the Metropolitan's main building with its second headquarters, The Cloisters , located on top of Fort Tryon Park , on the northernmost tip of Manhattan Island. A corner of peace full of medieval European treasures, including entire cloisters and apses.
Cloisters of Fort Tryon Park
eleven. Between flowers with Van Gogh. the rooms of Impressionists and Post-Impressionists of the Metropolitan They are, as in all museums in the world, the most visited. But here, moreover, rightly so. Because of Van Gogh's Sunflowers, his Wheat Field with Cypresses, his Roses, Irises... Not a single flower is missing.
12.**The tour of the 'Monuments Men' ** . Unfortunately your guide is not George Clooney. Not Bill Murray. But the museum has on display 11 works recovered by that group of volunteers in World War II, portrayed by Clooney in his (forgettable) film. Among them, Mäda Primavesi, by Gustav Klimt; or The Monceu Park, by Monet.
Van Gogh's 'Oleanders'
13. Good of Spanish art. El Greco, Picasso, Velazquez, Goya… The Metropolitan's Spanish art collection is one of its jewels. Some of these paintings are always cited in the must-see lists. Like the portrait of Manuel Osorio Manrique de Zuñiga that Goya painted; or that of Gerturde Stein, by Picasso.
14. See Versailles better than in Versailles. In the panoramic and circular view of the Parisian palace painted by John Vanderlyn. A must see.
fifteen. Get lost among sculptures. Literally. It is impossible not to end up wandering in the courtyards of Roman and Greek sculpture. And that? There will be few more beautiful places, especially on sunny days.
Lose yourself among the sculptures
16. In fashion . The Metropolitan's Costume Institute has more than 35,000 dresses in its closets. An immense collection that he brings out in two annual exhibitions that are always a good excuse to buy a ticket to New York. This year it will be dedicated to China . Suctioning? Also go to the great Met Gala.
17. The online collection ** . A very large part of the Metropolitan's collections are not even on display, but in recent years the museum has made an effort to digitize them and thousands of works can now be seen on its website. ** An online visit is not a bad idea to quench a bit of wanderlust.
18. the new square or the competition of the stairs is the entire surface that surrounds the main façade of the Metropolitan and that was inaugurated last September, with a fountain, trees, tables, chairs and free wifi . It's really just a 'how do we make this even more beautiful and cozy', but they have succeeded. The work of 65 million dollars has been paid by the businessman David H. Koch , hence the square bears his name.
artistic procrastination
19. The contemporaries. They say that part of the success of the Metropolitan is that in a single building, which you will probably never see in its entirety, you can see from ancient Egypt to Jackson Pollock. While the great European museums, for example, end in the 19th century, the Metropolitan accommodates the entire history of art, up to the present and, in fact, its 20th and 21st century galleries are as must-see as its Renaissance ones.
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