Museum Evaluation

Introduction

Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, art collection, the largest in the U.S. and one of the largest in the world. Founded in 1870 on the basis of private collections donated to the museum, is open to the public two years later, a member of the departments: American painting and sculpture, the ancient art of the Far and Middle East, weapons, art of ancient Egypt, ancient and Islamic art, European painting, the art of the XX century., engraving and lithography, musical instruments, children's museum, museum books, costume institute (Peck, 17).

Metropolitan Museum of Art shortly called “Met” is one of the largest museums in the world. It is located in the United States in New York City on the east side of Central Park in Manhattan. The museum is the Metropolitan Gallery “Cloisters”, in which the exhibited works of medieval art. The permanent exhibition is located in the Metropolitan nineteen separate sections, each of which is a staff of curators, conservators and scientists.

Discussion

The composition of the permanent exhibition includes Metro more than two million works of art from around the world. Thematic Meetings begin from classical antiquity, with its Greek and Cypriot galleries and end an almost complete collection of European masters: their paintings and sculptures. The exhibition includes many examples of American culture, the expanded collection of Egyptian, African, Asian, Middle Eastern, Byzantine and Islamic culture. You can also see the encyclopedic collection of musical instruments from around the world. Division of weapons and armor will show the viewer curious collection of ancient weapons and armor, war art in Europe, Japan, USA, the Middle East. Each collection is in its temporary office (Gross, 45).

For the first time the Metropolitan Museum of Art was opened in February 1872, he was in New York, on Fifth Avenue in the house at ...