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• Metropolitan Museum to Open 7 Days a Week Starting July 1

  Thursday, March 21, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Credit Suisse to Donate Trumbull’s Iconic Portrait of Alexander Hamilton to Metropolitan Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

  Thursday, March 14, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• Stuart W. Pyhrr to Become Distinguished Research Curator after 25 Years Leading Metropolitan Museum’s Arms and Armor Department

  Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 4:00 a.m.

• James Nares’ Video Street to be Centerpiece of Exhibition Opening March 5 at Metropolitan Museum
  March 5—May 27, 2013

  Tuesday, March 5, 2013, 10:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Exhibition Examines Changing Image of Eros, Ancient Greek God of Love, from Antiquity to Renaissance
  January 29-June 23, 2013

  Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 9:30 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Launches 82nd & Fifth, a 2013 Multimedia Online Series Featuring 100 Works of Art and 100 Curators They Inspired

  Wednesday, February 27, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

  
  

• Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity to Open at Metropolitan Museum on February 26
  February 26 – May 27, 2013

  Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 11:00 p.m.

• Now Available…
  The Metropolitan Museum of Art Guide
  in Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, and Spanish

  Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 10:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – Spring 2013 Schedule

  Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 9:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – June 2013

  Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 8:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – Just Announced:
  OM: At Giza

  Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 7:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s New Galleries for Islamic Art Department Draw One Million Visitors

  Monday, February 25, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Ground Formally Broken for New David H. Koch Plaza at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Sunday, February 24, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Julie Jones to Become Curator Emeritus After Distinguished 38-Year Career at Metropolitan Museum in Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

  Saturday, February 23, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Spring 2013 Concerts Celebrate 75th Anniversary of The Cloisters

  Friday, February 22, 2013, 9:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – May 2013

  Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 6:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents - April 2013

  Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 5:00 p.m.

  
  

• Met Museum Presents – March 2013

  Wednesday, February 20, 2013, 3:00 p.m.

• Met Museum Launches Major Web Resource Offering Access to Hundreds of Its Publications

  Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• AXA Equitable Donates America Today, Thomas Hart Benton’s Epic Mural Cycle Celebrating Life in 1920s America, to Metropolitan Museum

  Monday, February 18, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Matisse: In Search of True Painting—An Exploration of Matisse’s Painting Process—Opens December 4 at Metropolitan Museum
  December 4, 2012—March 17, 2013

  Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 3:00 p.m.

• New Metropolitan Museum Installation of Historical Trade Cards Celebrates Women and Sport
  Through July 14, 2013

  Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 1:30 p.m.

• Major Exhibition on Theme of Nature in Western Art to Open at National Museum of China in Beijing on February 1

  Monday, February 11, 2013, 4:00 p.m.

• “道法自然：大都会艺术博物馆精品展”
  2月1日在中国国家博物馆开幕 (Chinese)

  Sunday, February 10, 2013, 3:30 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate Presidents’ Day—February 18—a "Met Holiday Monday"

  Wednesday, January 30, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• First Comprehensive Retrospective of American Artist George Bellows in Nearly Half a Century on View at Metropolitan Museum
  November 15, 2012–February 18, 2013

  Saturday, January 26, 2013, 5:00 p.m.

• The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785–1850
  January 22–April 21, 2013

  Tuesday, January 22, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Ground Formally Broken for New David H. Koch Plaza at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

  Monday, January 14, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

  (New York, January 14, 2013)—Government leaders and museum officials today formally broke ground for the new plaza and fountains at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Observe Martin Luther King Jr. Day—January 21—a “Met Holiday Monday”

  Friday, January 11, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents – February 2013

  Thursday, January 3, 2013, 5:00 a.m.

• SCHEDULE OF EXHIBITIONS
  Through December 2013

  Tuesday, January 1, 2013, 11:00 p.m.

• Metropolitan Museum’s Main Building and Cloisters Celebrate the Season with Two "Holiday Mondays"—Added Viewing Days—December 24 and 31

  Wednesday, December 19, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Magnificent 18th–Century Mechanical Furniture by Abraham and David Roentgen on View in Fall Exhibition at Metropolitan Museum
  October 30, 2012–January 27, 2013

  Monday, December 10, 2012, 6:00 p.m.

• Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche on Display for Holiday Season at Metropolitan Museum
  November 20, 2012—January 6, 2013

  Sunday, December 9, 2012, 6:00 p.m.

• First Major Exhibition Devoted to History of Manipulated Photography Before Digital Age Opens at Metropolitan Museum October 11
  October 11, 2012—January 27, 2013

  Friday, December 7, 2012, 8:00 p.m.

• Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years
  September 18—December 31, 2012

  Thursday, December 6, 2012, 1:00 p.m.

• The Sau-Wing Lam Collection in Action:
  A Four-Concert Series Featuring Rare Italian Stringed Instruments

  Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 4:30 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – January 2013

  Wednesday, December 5, 2012, 4:00 p.m.

• Three Exhibitions—Search for the Unicorn, Janet Cardiff: The Forty Part Motet, and Canterbury Stained Glass—Celebrate The Cloisters’ 75th-Anniversary Year

  Friday, November 23, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Schedule of Exhibitions
  Through December 2015

  Friday, November 16, 2012, 2:00 p.m.

• Nicholas Cullinan Named Curator in Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at Metropolitan Museum

  Thursday, November 15, 2012, 5:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum Receives Group of Important Modern Works and Establishes Fund Supporting Its Collection of Art from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas through Generous Bequests of Andrea Bollt

  Wednesday, November 14, 2012, 10:00 p.m.

• Marina Kellen French Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 10:30 p.m.

• Andrew Solomon Elected Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 10:00 p.m.

• Marica F. Vilcek Elected Honorary Trustee at Metropolitan Museum

  Tuesday, November 13, 2012, 9:30 p.m.

• Met Museum Presents – December 2012

  Monday, November 12, 2012, 10:30 p.m.

• METROPOLITAN MUSEUM TO REOPEN CLOISTERS ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6

  Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Metropolitan Museum and Cloisters to Observe Veterans Day Weekend with Free Admission for the Military on November 11 and 12

  Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• Met Museum Presents—Live Webcast of
  Peony Pavilion in Updated Version by Tan Dun and Huang Doudou
  Performed by Zhang Jun and the Shanghai Zhang Jun Art Center Company in Metropolitan Museum’s Astor Court Friday, November 30, 7:00 p.m.
  

  Wednesday, October 31, 2012, 4:00 a.m.

• METROPOLITAN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES IT WILL CLOSE TO PUBLIC ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 30

  Monday, October 29, 2012, 4:49 p.m.