Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Top 100
Top 100Wonder Type: Cultural
Country: United States of America
Best of: Museum, Art Gallery
Description:
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. [More Details]
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