The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
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The largest art museum in the Americas and the most-visited in the US (5.7 million came in 2025). Its collection runs across 17 curatorial departments, from the ancient Near East and Egypt through classical antiquity to contemporary art — one building for the whole span.
What to look for
- The monumental stone lamassu (guardian figures) from the Northwest Palace of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II
- Period rooms installed in the galleries, ranging from first-century Rome to modern American design
- The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, holding 11,000+ works from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
The main building sits at 1000 Fifth Avenue on the eastern edge of Central Park; the medieval collection is at a separate site, The Cloisters in Fort Tryon Park.
The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art) is one of 38 sights worth the detour in New York, all bundled offline in Voyage GO — download the New York pack and it sits on your map with no signal, filling your travel passport the moment you walk past.
More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.
- Brooklyn BridgeCross the East River on the bridge that was the world's longest suspension span when it opened in 1883 — on a promenade raised 18 feet above the traffic.