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DAY 36 | ART FROM THE INSIDE OUT |
Metropolitan Museum of Art
NEW YORK CITY
Founded in 1870 with 174 Dutch and Flemish paintings, the Metropolitan Museum of Art sits on the eastern edge of Central Park in New York City, a massive Gothic-Revival structure housing more than 2 million works of art. Cared for and maintained by 19 curatorial departments, hundreds of museum staff, and one very busy director, “the Met” has been greatly expanded since the late 1800s; currently its 2 million square feet of gallery space offers a bit of everything imaginable, spanning 5,000 years of creativity from even the most far-flung corners of the world. Its ...
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