 The Metropolitan Museum of Art has nearly three
million objects in its collections, of which several hundred thousand are on view at any
given time, so it is difficult to say which work of art is the most looked at. One of the
most frequently visited is the Egyptian Temple of Dendur
(68.154), which came to the Museum in 1968 and was housed in the Arthur M. Sackler Wing
ten years later.
The most visited galleries in the Museum are the nineteenth-century
European paintings galleries. Works by Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh,
and Edgar Degas are particularly popular. |
