The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met is a universal museum: every category of art in every known medium from every part of the world during every epoch of recorded time is represented here and thus available for contemplation or study — not in isolation but in comparison with other times, other cultures, and other media.

There are several large museums in New York but the Metropolitan Museum of Art is truly gigantic. From the sidewalk on Fifth Avenue, the Met, with its tall columns and windows, immense stairways and water fountains, looks like it could be an emperorÍs palace. The size and diversity of the artwork on display is even more impressive; the museumÍs collection contains works from every part of the world, spanning the Stone Age to the twentieth century. The Egyptian Art gallery includes a whole temple that was shipped to America as a gift.

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Manger scene at the Metropolitan Museum

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Manger scene at the Metropolitan Museum

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Manger scene at the Metropolitan Museum

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Manger scene at the Metropolitan Museum

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Metropolitan Art Museum

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States and among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries.

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Metropolitan Art Museum

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Metropolitan Art Museum

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Metropolitan Art Museum

The Temple of Dendur is an Egyptian temple that was built by the Roman governor of Egypt, Petronius, around 15 BC and dedicated to Isis, Osiris, as well as two deified sons of a local Nubian chieftain, Pediese ("he whom Isis has given") and Pihor ("he who belongs to Horus"). The temple was commissioned by Emperor Augustus of Rome and has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York since 1978.

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Metropolitan Art Museum

Temple of Dendor

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Metropolitan Art Museum

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Metropolitan Art Museum

Colossal Seated Statue of a Pharaoh in the Lobby.
Period: Middle Kingdom
Reign: reign of Amenemhat II or possibly Senwosret II
Date: ca. 1919–1878 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt; Probably from Eastern Delta, Tanis (San el-Hagar)
Medium: Granodiorite

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