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The Met—which opened its doors on April 13, 1870—was founded by a group of businessmen, financiers, artists, and cultural enthusiasts. The Met's main building facing Fifth Avenue, called since 2016 the Met Fifth Avenue, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in 1902.

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Today, the original structure is completely surrounded by more modern wings. You can catch a glimpse of the original west facade in the museum’s Robert Lehman Wing, which houses 2600 works that once belonged to the notable banker.

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The Met is known for its swanky digs on Museum Mile, a swath of Fifth Avenue that borders Central Park, but the institution was originally located in a much smaller building at 681 Fifth Avenue, which housed a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 European paintings. The Met’s collection quickly grew too large for the space, and in 1873, the museum was moved to an estate on West 14th Street known as the Douglas Mansion, where it remained until builders completed its permanent location in 1879.

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The Metropolitan Museum's collection of medieval art, one of the richest in the world, encompasses the art of this long and complex period in all its many phases, from its pre-Christian antecedents in western Europe through early medieval, the Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic periods.

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Lauren Halsey introduced a monumental installation on the rooftop garden of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The installation is made up of a 22-foot-high cube constructed of 750 glass fiber-reinforced concrete tiles. The temple-like cube is guarded by two sphinxes and surrounded by four towering columns. The faces on the two sphinxes are those of the artist's mother and brother.

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The Cantor Roof Garden Bar provides visitors with a unique and stunning experience, combining art, culture, and beautiful views of the city. In addition to the space, a new art installation can be enjoyed from this magnificent location during the warmer months.

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The Temple of Dendur is a Roman Egyptian religious structure originally located in Tuzis, Nubia about 80 kilometres south of modern Aswan. Around 23 BCE, Emperor Augustus commissioned the temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis and deified brothers Pedesi and Pihor from Nubia.

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In 1963, as part of the International Campaign to Save the Monuments of Nubia, UNESCO helped rescue and relocate the temple from flooding caused by the Aswan High Dam. Egypt gave the temple to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, which has exhibited it since 1978

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The Costume Institute's collection of more than thirty-three thousand objects represents seven centuries of fashionable dress and accessories from the fifteenth century to the present. The collection is accessible to students, scholars, and designers by appointment. There are different costume exhibitions for general public all round the year