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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an encyclopedic art museum in New York City. It is the largest art museum in the Americas and the fourth-largest in the world. With 5.36 million visitors in 2023, it is the most-visited museum in the United States and the fourth-most visited art museum in the world.As of 2000, its permanent collection had over two million works; it currently lists a total of 1.5 million objects. The collection is divided into 17 curatorial departments. The main building at 1000 Fifth Avenue, along the Museum Mile on the eastern edge of Central Park on Manhattan's Upper East Side, is by area one of the world's largest art museums. The first portion of the approximately building was built in 1880. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from medieval Europe.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 with its mission to bring art and art education to the American people. The museum's permanent collection consists of works of art ranging from the ancient Near East and ancient Egypt, through classical antiquity to the contemporary world. It includes paintings, sculptures, and graphic works from many European Old Masters, as well as an extensive collection of American, modern, and contemporary art. The Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes, and decorative arts and textiles, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries. Provided by Wikipedia
Tutankhamun, his tomb and its treasures /
: "Published on the occasion of the exhibition Treasures of Tutankhamun at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Field Museum of Natural History and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, New Orleans Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Seattle Art Museum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1976-1979." : 256 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm. : 0394411706
The art of medicine in ancient Egypt /
: "This volume has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "The art of medicine in ancient Egypt," held at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from September 13, 2005, to January 15, 2006." : 115 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm. : Includes bibliographical references. : 1588391701 : wafaa.lib.
Tutankhamun's funeral /
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Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, March 16-Sept. 6, 2010.
"Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tutankhamun is reprinted (with minor revisions) from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Papers No. 10: Materials Used at the Embalming of King Tūt-ʻAnkh-Amūn, by H. E. Winlock (New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1941)." :
79 pages : Illustrations (some color), plan ; 31 cm. :
Includes bibliographical references. :
9781588393692
9780300167351
The royal women of Amarna : images of beauty from ancient Egypt /
: "Exhibition catalogue for an exhibition running from Oct. 8,1996 through Feb. 2, 1997, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art". : xxi, 169 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 29 cm. : Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-163) and index.