Metropolitan Museum of Art

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art museum cultural institution tourist attraction

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and most renowned art museums, housing an extensive collection spanning thousands of years and cultures.

Aliases (23)

Statements (65)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	art museum → cultural institution → tourist attraction →
alsoKnownAs	The Met →
architect	Calvert Vaux → Jacob Wrey Mould → McKim, Mead & White → Richard Morris Hunt →
chairperson	Tony James →
city	New York City →
collectionPeriod	prehistoric times to the present →
collectionSize	over 2 million works →
country	United States of America →
director	Max Hollein →
founded	1870 →
founder	Eastman Johnson → Frederic Edwin Church → George Palmer Putnam → Howard Potter → John Taylor Johnston → Other New York civic leaders → William Tilden Blodgett →
governingBody	Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art →
hasCollection	African art → American art → Ancient Egyptian art → Arms and armor → Asian art → Byzantine art → Costume Institute collection → Drawings and prints → European paintings → Greek and Roman art → Islamic art → Modern and contemporary art → Musical instruments → Oceanic art →
hasDepartment	Department of Asian Art → Department of Egyptian Art → Department of European Paintings → Department of Greek and Roman Art → Department of Islamic Art → Department of Modern and Contemporary Art →
hasPart	The Met Breuer (former satellite location) → The Met Cloisters →
language	English →
locatedAt	1000 Fifth Avenue →
locatedIn	Central Park → Manhattan → New York City → Upper East Side →
locatedOn	Fifth Avenue →
notableWorkHeld	Madame X by John Singer Sargent → Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat by Vincent van Gogh → Temple of Dendur → The Death of Socrates by Jacques-Louis David → Washington Crossing the Delaware by Emanuel Leutze →
opened	1872 →
president	Daniel H. Weiss →
significance	one of the largest art museums in the world → one of the most visited art museums in the world →
state	New York →
style	Beaux-Arts architecture →
visitorCount	millions of visitors per year →
website	https://www.metmuseum.org →

Referenced by (125)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Anders Zorn ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → Ben Shahn → Daniel Chester French → Eastman Johnson → Ferdinand Bol → Gilbert Stuart → Govert Flinck → Henri Matisse → Herman Saftleven → J. M. W. Turner → Jasper Francis Cropsey → Jasper Johns → Lee Krasner → Léon Bonnat → Sanford Robinson Gifford → Walker Evans ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") →	hasWorkInCollection
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) → La Mort de Socrate ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Madame X ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Madame X ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Parade de cirque → Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Prisoners from the Front ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat → The Death of Socrates ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → The Gulf Stream ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → The Heart of the Andes → The Veteran in a New Field ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Washington Crossing the Delaware ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City") → Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze) → Washington Crossing the Delaware (painting) → Young Ladies of the Village →	location
Autumn Rhythm (Number 30) ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → La Mort de Socrate ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Little Dancer of Fourteen Years ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (one bronze cast)") → Madame X ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Parade de cirque → Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and his Wife ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Prisoners from the Front ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat → The Death of Socrates ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art European Paintings collection") → The Gulf Stream ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → The Veteran in a New Field ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Washington Crossing the Delaware ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Washington Crossing the Delaware (Leutze) ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → Young Ladies of the Village ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") →	collection
Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art → Department of Asian Art → Department of Greek and Roman Art → Department of Islamic Art → Department of Modern and Contemporary Art → curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	partOf
Daniel H. Weiss ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → Max Hollein → Max Hollein → Roger Fry → Seán Hemingway ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	employer
Department of Asian Art → Department of Islamic Art → Department of Modern and Contemporary Art → Temple of Dendur → curatorial departments of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City") →	locatedIn
Finance Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") → audit committee of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art → collections or acquisitions committee of the Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	affiliatedWith
Manhattan → Manhattan Island → Museum Mile ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	contains
The Burghers of Calais (cast) by Auguste Rodin ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → The Gulf Stream ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → Washington Crossing the Delaware ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") →	exhibitedAt
Fifth Avenue → New York City → Upper East Side →	hasCulturalInstitution
Calvert Vaux ("Metropolitan Museum of Art (original building in Central Park)") → Richard Morris Hunt ("Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue façade and wings") → Richard Morris Hunt ("Fifth Avenue entrance and grand staircase of the Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	notableWork
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ("The Met Fifth Avenue") → Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met") →	alsoKnownAs
Brooke Astor → Tony James →	boardMemberOf
Madame X ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York") → The Veteran in a New Field ("exhibited at The Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	exhibitionHistory
Horace Pippin → Oceanic art →	hasCollectionIn
Metropolitan Museum of Art ("Department of Egyptian Art") → Metropolitan Museum of Art ("Department of European Paintings") →	hasDepartment
Department of Asian Art → Department of Islamic Art →	hasParentOrganization
Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met Cloisters") → Metropolitan Museum of Art ("The Met Breuer (former satellite location)") →	hasPart
Houses of Parliament series → Mont Sainte-Victoire series →	inCollection
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY → Temple of Dendur →	ownedBy
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller → Mary Quinn Sullivan →	supportedInstitution
The Heart of the Andes →	acquisitionBy
Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat ("Metropolitan Museum of Art European Paintings collection") →	cataloguedIn
Eastman Johnson →	coFounded
Eastman Johnson →	coFounderOf
Los Caprichos →	collectionHeldAt
Walter Annenberg →	donatedTo
Water Lilies (Monet) →	exhibited at
Temple of Dendur ("Sackler Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art") →	exhibitedIn
Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art →	governs
Metropolitan Museum of Art ("Costume Institute collection") →	hasCollection
Adélaïde Labille-Guiard ("The Metropolitan Museum of Art collection") →	hasRepresentationIn
Haystacks series →	inCollectionOf
Temple of Dendur →	installedAt
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY ("Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan") →	isIconicAddressOf
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY →	isMailingAddressFor
The Obelisk (Cleopatra's Needle) →	locatedInFrontOf
The Disasters of War →	locationOfImpression
Board of Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art →	meetsAt
John Taylor Johnston →	notableInstitution
Department of Islamic Art →	operatedBy
Department of Modern and Contemporary Art ("The Met Fifth Avenue") →	operatesWithin
Department of Modern and Contemporary Art →	parentOrganization
1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY →	primaryOccupant
Astor family →	relatedOrganization
Metropolitan Opera ("The Met") →	shortName
Brooke Astor →	supported
Jacob Wrey Mould ("Metropolitan Museum of Art building, New York City") →	workedOn
Johannes Vermeer ("Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City") →	workPreservedIn