Metropolitan Museum of Art

noun

1. the principal museum in New York City: founded in 1870 and housed in its present premises in Central Park since 1880

Metropolitan Museum of Art

1. An art museum in New York City . One of the leading art museums in the world, it is known for its extensive collections, ranging from Egyptian temples to twentieth-century masterpieces.

Example Sentences

Michael Caine’s performance as the transgender psychiatrist/murderer in “Dressed to Kill” is “predictably amazing and daring”; that film’s intricately constructed cat-and-mouse seduction sequence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art — the interiors were actually shot at the Philadelphia Museum of Art — is “simply mesmerizing and bewitching.”

From Los Angeles Times

Cambodia’s culture minister says the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s return of 14 looted sculptures is like welcoming home the souls of ancestors.

From Los Angeles Times

That the women were made of stone and were attached to the building of Bonwit Teller, in the process of being razed and replaced by Trump Tower, was of little comfort to the trustees at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which had been promised these Art Deco bas-relief beauties — long hovering over pedestrians, now shattered.

From New York Times

He said that other items were returned from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art and some of the well-known New York philanthropists who donated artifacts to its collections that turned out to have been stolen.

From Seattle Times

Renderings for the temporary park, scheduled to close in fall 2026, reveal a gleaming white courtyard reminiscent of earlier iterations of Halsey’s project at the Hammer Museum in L.A. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

From Los Angeles Times