The Metropolitan Museum of art

The Metropolitan Museum of art (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is an art museum located in Central Park in New York, founded 1870 and is one of the largest museums of the world months, contains traces of all civilizations and is higher than the Louvre stages in terms of magnitude.

Foundation

In 1866 a group of us met to celebrate the national day of the American fourth of July in the Bois de Boulogne restaurant» in Paris and was among the Group of Jean-je grandson of one of the best-known young American jurists of the time. He proposed to the group, saying "now is the time for the establishment of the Institute and Gallery of art New York" received the proposal to Hamas, and a year after that encounter led Jean Gee who headed the syndicate Club in New York campaign among civic leaders, merchants and owners of art charity to create the first American Museum as museums of Europe, and in the late seventies the nineteenth century born Metropolitan Museum of art who moved in several locations as settled Bay in its current location on Fifth Avenue North of Manhattan to align The New York garden large Central Park.

Islamic sword from the Museum

About the Museum

The Museum-style architecture of the Gothic is slowly expanding to become one of the largest art museums in the world have as Philippe de Montebello, Director of the Museum in New York and knowledge circle goes away saying that «Encyclopaedia of art in the world and can see it reflecting the cultures of the peoples from the Assyrian art Kit and Egypt through the art of Florence and even reflecting the culture of Guinea-Bissau and China's Tibet plateau.

The Metropolitan Museum of art the largest museums of the United States and the largest in New York City and is of great museums in the world.

A young woman with a water paintings the artist Johannes Vermeer

The Museum has an area of over 2 million square feet and has more than 3 million pieces of modern art and old from around the world and in addition the pylon also includes pieces of musical instruments and various military return to periods of human history variety. Initially, the only European Art Museum and a bit of American art but over time the Museum has expanded to include large collections of art and antiques add to the private suite with floristics and American design, this suite contains over 12,000 pieces of furniture models and American designs. The architect Richard Morris Hunt, graduate school of fine arts in Paris from the design and delivery of the Gothic-style Museum 1926 however remained constant additions to take its final form in the last year.

And visiting New York cannot ignore the Metropolitan Museum given the location and architecture which is different from the modern architecture of the city of New York where high buildings with huge expanses of glass. The Museum does not lure art lovers but also entices lovers of design and decorated palaces and fashion designs. And the Museum system and the presentation of artistic works beyond the traditional or classical European museums including the Louvre in Paris or El Prado in Madrid.

Robert Lehman Wing at the MET.

It not only works of art but bypass it to display musical and military and old furniture to suite the evolution of fashion until modern times. What draws attention to consider combining a group of singers and singers opera costumes and some of the well-known fashion designers led by the late Italian fersashi. If marked by the Metropolitan Museum acquired a large collection of ancient Egyptian and Assyrian art, however, boasts the largest collection of Islamic art.