Metropolitan Museum of Art.

On February 20, 1872, the American Metropolitan Museum of Art was officially opened.

Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States and the world's famous museum. Located on 82nd Avenue on 5th Avenue in the United States, facing Fifth Avenue, facing Central Park, crossing four districts from the south to the north, the total building area is about 200,000 square meters, far compared to the famous American Museum of Natural History. Covering an area of 130,000 square meters, it is one of the world's four largest museums, together with the British Museum in London, the Louvre in Paris, France, and the Ermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia, with a total collection of 3 million exhibits.

The Metropolitan Museum is an encyclopedia-based art museum, which collects a wide variety of artifacts and art varieties, covering cultural arts from different historical periods around the world. The Metropolitan Museum has 17 departments, the Asian department is one of the largest of the two. The Asian section's collections are geographically divided into East Asia, China, Japan, Korea, South Asia, India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Indonesia, etc., excluding Central Asia and the West. The Asian section has about 3.5 million items, of which China's artifacts and artworks are about 1.2 thousand items, including books, ceramics, bronze, jewelry, painting, gold, silver, stone, sculpture, and a fairly rich collection of textiles and classical furniture.

Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection

The Met's collection of Asian art is the largest and most comprehensive in western countries. Every civilization in Asia has its representative excellent works, which have brought almost half the world's incomparable artistic traditional experience in both quality and quantity. More than 60,000 objects, dating from 2000 BC to the early 20th century, include oil paintings, prints, calligraphy, sculptures, metalwork, ceramics, paints, decorative art works and textiles from East, South, Southeast Asia and the Himalayas. The museum is famous for its calligraphy and painting works. No matter huge scenery and imitation of nature, as well as Japanese screens and prints, it is a luxurious set of functional rituals. Stone and metal sculptures from South and Southeast Asia, as well as early paintings from other regions such as Nepal and Tibet, are the advantages of the collection.

The exhibition hall of the museum has 3 floors, divided into 18 showrooms and exhibition rooms: clothing, Greco-Roman art, primitive art, weapons and armor, European sculpture and decorative art, American art, R. Lehmann collection, ancient Near East art, medieval art, Far East art, Islamic art, 19th century European paintings and sculptures, prints, drawings and photographs, 20th century art, European paintings, musical instruments and temporary exhibitions.

The Metropolitan Museum has more than 330 million art treasures from Egypt, Babylon, Assyria, the Far East and the Middle East, Greece and Rome, Europe, Africa, the pre-Columbian period of America and New Guinea. The first floor of the museum is the exhibition of the United States, Africa, Australia, South North America, Europe, Egypt, Greece and Rome, and the second floor is the exhibition of the ancient Far East, China, Japan, North Korea, Islam and Southeast Asia.