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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

At the English lessons we were talking about sights of New York. And I would like to tell you about the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Often people call it the Met. It is in Manhattan on 5th Avenue and 82nd Street.

This is huge museum as city. A constant collection of the Met is consist of 19 separate sections, each of which is completed by the personal staff of keepers, restorers, and scientists.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. Now it is the biggest and the most popular museum in the USA, and one of the biggest museums in the world.

Works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from all the European masters, and American and modern art are represented in the permanent collection. The Met also have works of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine, and Islamic art.

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Seated Male Figure,

19th–20th century Democratic Republic of Congo; Kongo, Yombe Wood, glass, metal, kaolin

he section “European painting” contains more than 2 200 pictures. One of the last acquisitions of museum - “Madonna with the baby” Dukkio, which cost the Met 45 million dollars.

Three Men Walking II,

1949 Alberto Giacometti (Swiss, 1901–1966) Bronze

Susan Hayne Simmons

(Mrs. Manigault Heyward), ca. 1813 Robert Fulton (American, 1765–1815) Watercolor on ivory

Important characteristic for the visitors, it is possible to pass into the museum for the minimum pay, you should to come any window of cashbox and to give any coin, and you can get ticket free. This tickets is small round many-colored marks, on each day their colored. Marks can be fastened to the clothing and taken with themselves for the memory, that make a millions of tourists and inhabitants of New York.

There is the library in the Museum.

Library is open to all Museum visitors and consult the Museum's collections, exhibitions, and the history of art.

You can explore art in the Museum in free programs for kids ages 18 months–12 years together with their parents.