2

nd and 3rd Floors

400406
450464

The American Wing

West

Ancient Near Eastern Art

923

922

921

920

924

925

690693

Asian Art

633

918

917

600644

European Paintings, 12501800

173176

Greek and Roman Art

917925

Modern and
Contemporary Art
Musical Instruments

800830

19th- and Early 20th-Century

European Paintings and Sculpture

850852

826

823

820

828 829

825

822

819

827

824

812

680684

810

805 806
803

454

458

453

Cafs and Restaurants

462

461

603

604

625

602

624

605

616

617

684

623

621

618

643

644

600

622

620

619

690

173

463

752

751

747

749

750

748

227

680

228

683

226
229

682

681

225

Met
Store

North

230

Lounge

405

404

403

223

202

401

231

224

219

232

400

406

176

450

753

709

3rd floor

720

703

201 Balcony

535

174

708

757

691

852

175

710

716

755 756

721

704

601

711

715 713

759

754

722

615

641

712

719

717

705

714

761

758

718

614

626

200

452

457

606

762

771

692

455
456

642

693

451

460

640

850

801

459

Met Store

627

763

760

770

772

613

611

764

638

851

800

809

802

767

706

612

610

607

629

639

818

768

609

637

813 814 815 816 817

804

Special Exhibitions and

New Installations

821

811

808 807

Photographs

608

636 635

830

South

630

634
899

Drawings and Prints

631

628

919
999

200253

765

769
632

Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran,

Central Asia, and Later South Asia

766

Great Hall Balcony Bar

Friday and Saturday evenings

203

402

205

210
208

233

206
234

204

220

207

235

236

238

239

218

216

242

215

244 245

241

240

464

221

217

209
237

211

246

Help preserve the collection;

please do not touch the works of art.

222

214

3rd floor

249

248

247

243

213

250

703772

253

251

252
3rd floor

903

900926

Modern and
Contemporary Art
Robert Lehman
Collection

Petrie
Court
Caf

526

910
909

554

908

552

523

521

522

520

548

556

546

529

530

512

544

542

507 506
599

538

501

537

Thomas J. Watson
Library

199

Met Store
162

159

160

157

155

166

165

164

170

151

171

Met Store

158

156

154

378

379

Seminar
Room

The Temple
of Dendur
in The Sackler Wing

North

130

Membership Desk
Concerts & Lectures
Box Office

135

131

127
100

132

121

124

126

102

152

120

123

128

119
118

122

109

101

103

104

107
105

163

106

108
110

112

113

114

111

117

116

115

Plaza

F I F T H AV E N U E

81st St

Bonnie J.
Sacerdote
Lecture
Hall

82nd St

83rd St

Nolen
Library

980

Met Store

Carson
Family Hall
Studio

981

North
Classroom

Ruth and Harold D. Uris

Center for Education
80th St

137

138

Garage
Entrance

Art Study

372

Main Entrance
at 82nd Street

80th St

to Parking
Garage

Met
Store

734

728

376

Grace
Rainey
Rogers
Auditorium

The Great Hall

172

Carroll
Classroom

375

371

377

Plaza

round Floor

Museum Map

150

Mezzanine

to Parking
Garage

153

i
167

505

733

129

Group Registration

169

729

732

731

727

380

300 302 301

534

726

Concerts &
Lectures
Box Office

161

168

504

374

351

Special Exhibitions and

New Installations

Cafs and Restaurants

502

373

303

350

353

723

702

370

503

500

746

532

304

736

735

700

307
508

536
352

701

511 510

543

599

738

724 725

514

306

305

737

744

American Wing Caf

531

355

South

515

740

739
745

509

533

550

359

516

741

743

the
cafeteria

513

518

545

539 540 541

354

519

547

553

358

524

528

551
357

525

527

555

356

950

Ground floor

399

Greek and Roman Art

951

960

911

901

European Sculpture and

Decorative Arts

773

912

902

Egyptian Art

Medieval Art

907

913

900

961

730

906

963
954
953
952
962

957
958
959

904

The Costume Institute

300307

950965

956

517

Arms and Armor

150172

914

774

Mezzanine

955
4th floor

549

370380

707
964

905

Arts of Africa, Oceania,

and the Americas

500556

West

926

Members Dining Room

and Patrons Lounge

350359

965

Roof Garden Caf

MayOctober

Mezzanine

916

The American Wing

100138

Roof Garden

915

700774

980981

st Floor and Mezzanines

5th floor

125

C E N T R A L PA R K

The Costume Institute

Plaza Entrance
at 81st Street

84th St

Information

Cafs and Restaurants

Stairs

Guided Tour Meeting Point

Escalator

Automated Teller Machine

Elevator

Telephone w/ volume control

Restrooms

Low Telephone w/ volume control

Accessible

Assistive Listening System

Wheelchair Lift

Bicycle Parking

Coat Check

Parking

Changing Station

Audio Guide main pickup

Also available at Met Store locations
throughout the Museum

Water Fountain

F I F T H AV E N U E
81st St

82nd St

83rd St

84th St

1st3rd Floors
Galleries 700774

The American Wing

American art, 17th early
20th century. Paintings by
Eakins, Homer, Sargent,
and the Hudson River
School; sculpture by SaintGaudens; decorative art by
Tiffany and Frank Lloyd
Wright. Period rooms. The
Henry R. Luce Center for
the Study of American Art.

1st Floor
Galleries 500556

European Sculpture
and Decorative Arts
Highlights are Italian
Renaissance and French
18th-century sculpture,
masterworks from Bernini
to Rodin. Renowned French
and English period rooms.
Decorative arts include
furniture, ceramics, glass,
metalwork, jewelry,
tapestries, and textiles.

1st Floor
Galleries 370380

2nd Floor
Galleries 400406

Ancient Near Eastern Art

Monumental Assyrian reliefs;
Nimrud ivories; Sumerian
sculpture; Anatolian ivories
and metalwork; pottery,
sculpture, and metalwork
from early Iran and central
Asia; Achaemenid, Parthian,
and Sasanian silver and
gold vessels; seals and
cuneiform tablets.

Arms and Armor

European armor, including
Renaissance parade armors;
Islamic armor from 15thcentury Iran and Anatolia,
and jeweled weapons from
the Ottoman Turkish and
Mughal Indian courts.
Finest collection of Japanese
armor outside Japan.

2nd Floor
Galleries 450464

1st and 2nd Floors

Galleries 150176

Greek and Roman Art

Acclaimed installation
of Greek art, prehistoric
through Hellenistic.
Exceptional works from
Cyprus and Etruria. Roman
art from throughout the
Empires expanse. Particular
strengths in Greek and
Roman sculpture, painting,
bronzes, glass, and gems,
and Etruscan bronzes.

1st Floor
Galleries 350359

2nd and 3rd Floors

Galleries 200253

Arts of Africa, Oceania,

and the Americas
Sculpture from sub-Saharan
Africa, the Pacific Islands,
and Precolumbian Mexico
and Peru. Works in wood,
stone, ceramic, ivory, gold,
silver, and other metals.
Textiles from all regions.

Asian Art
Paintings, calligraphy,
prints, sculpture, ceramics,
bronzes, jades, lacquer,
textiles, and screens from
ancient to modern China,
Japan, Korea, and South
and Southeast Asia.

1st Floor
Galleries 950965

Islamic Art
One of the worlds most
comprehensive collections,
including ceramics, textiles,
glass, metalwork, miniatures,
and period rooms from
throughout the Islamic
world. Main galleries are
recently reopened after
renovation.

1st Floor
Galleries 300307

Robert Lehman Collection

European paintings,
drawings, and decorative
arts, 14th20th centuries;
distinguished Italian
Renaissance paintings,
Old Master drawings,
Italian majolica, and
Venetian glass. Paintings by
Simone Martini, Botticelli,
Memling, El Greco,
Rembrandt, Ingres, Monet,
Renoir, and Matisse.

Medieval Art
Sumptuous objects in all
materials, 3001500.
Bronze Age and Celtic art;
Byzantine and early Medieval
treasures; Romanesque and
Gothic sculpture, stained
glass, tapestries, ivories,
and metalwork. See also
The Cloisters museum and
gardens on back cover.

Ground Floor
Galleries 980981

The Costume Institute

Fashionable dress and
accessories representing
five continents, 15th
century to the present.
Offerings rotate due to the
sensitive nature of textiles.
Two or more special
exhibitions organized each
year around a specific
theme or designer.

1st and 2nd Floors

Galleries 900926

Modern and
Contemporary Art
Paintings, works on paper,
sculpture, design, architecture, 1900present. Balthus,
Boccioni, Dal, Magritte,
Picasso; American collection,
including Hopper, OKeeffe,
Dove, Still, Pollock, Rothko,
Kelly, and Warhol.

2nd Floor
Galleries 690693

Drawings and Prints

Short-term exhibitions
from the Museums
collection, which includes
European prints and
drawings from the 15th
through the 19th century
by Leonardo, Drer,
Rembrandt, Goya, and
many others.

2nd Floor
Galleries 680684

Musical Instruments
Instruments from all
regions of the world.
Courtly and traditional
instruments, including the
oldest extant piano, rare
violins, harpsichords, and
a rich representation of
non-Western works.

2013 The Andy Warhol Foundation

for the Visual Arts, Inc.

1st Floor
Galleries 100138

Egyptian Art
Chronological display of
more than 20,000 objects,
5th millennium b.c.a.d.
400. Old Kingdom tomb
of Perneb, Meketre models,
Middle and New Kingdom
jewelry, statuary of the
female pharaoh Hatshepsut,
and early Roman-period
Temple of Dendur.

2nd Floor
Galleries 800830

19th- and Early 20thCentury European

Paintings and Sculpture
European paintings, mainly
French, Romanticism to
Post-impressionism. Works
by Picasso, Matisse, Courbet,
Degas, Manet, Van Gogh,
Gauguin, and Seurat, with
galleries dedicated to Czanne,
Monet, Pissarro, and Renoir;
Rodin sculptures.

2nd Floor
Galleries 600644

European Paintings,
12501800
Including outstanding
works by Duccio, Giotto,
Van Eyck, Memling,
Mantegna, Botticelli, Titian,
Bronzino, Drer, Holbein,
Bruegel, Caravaggio,
Rubens, Rembrandt,
Vermeer, Velzquez,
Poussin, Goya, and David.

2nd Floor
Galleries 850852

Photographs
Changing exhibitions, often
drawn from the Museums
collection, including 19thcentury French and British
photographs; American
works by Steichen, Stieglitz,
and Strand; avant-garde
photography between the
World Wars; contemporary
photographs.

The Collection
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of The Metropolitan Museum of Art devoted to
the art and architecture of medieval Europe,
both domestic and religious. The building and
its cloistered gardenslocated in Fort Tryon
Park in northern Manhattanare treasures in
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Cover: Gilbert Stuart (American, 17551828), George Washington (detail), 1795. Oil on canvas. Rogers Fund,
1907 (07.160)

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