Take a walk through an ancient Egyptian temple. Examine armor worn by medieal knights and elegant gowns worn by Russian quevens. Pause to rest in a Japanese courtyard, and then view paintings by the greatest masters of European art. isitors can do all those things and much more at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City. The Met is one of the world's great treasure houses, containing nearly three million works of art and beautiful objects from every era and every part of the world.

The Met was founded in 1870 by a group of New Yorkers who wanted their city to have a great museum. It began with just 174 paintings, but grew quickly. In 1880, it moved to its present site, on Fifth Aenue at the edge of Central Park. Its imposing building, with wide steps and tall columns, has beven expanded many times.

Today, the Met has enough exhibition space to cover 30 football fields. But that space allows the museum to display only a small portion of its ast holdings. Noted for its ancient Egyptian and Greek collections and for its African, Asian, European, Islamic, and American art, the museum also features costumes, furniture, musical instruments, jewelry, and photographs.

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