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Planned Giving

Contribute to The Met's future by planning for a special gift, such as a bequest in your Will or Trust, or through a Charitable Gift Annuity to receive payments for life. There are many creative and flexible planned giving options that can benefit you and the Museum.

Best of all, such a gift qualifies for membership in The Met William Society, a group that honors the generosity of donors who contribute to the Museum in this special way. If you have already included The Met in a bequest or other planned gift, we hope you will let us know and join the William Society.

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Image of Japanese armor. It features a kusazuri (skirt) with an extremely rare color scheme of silk lacings in red, yellowish-green, black, and white. The mon (heraldic badge), in the form of three whirling commas (mitsudomoe mon).

Bequests

Fragment of a Queen's Face made out of yellow jasper. Only the bottom half of her face, her lips and chin are discernible.

Charitable Gift Annuities

Close-up detail of a woman's hand resting against a yellow chair. She is wearing gold rings and a multi-stranded pearl bracelet.

Retirement Assets, Life Insurance, and Real Estate

Congressional Presentation Sword and Scabbard of Major General John E. Wool made out of Steel, gold, brass, diamonds, rubies. The massive gold hilt incorporates the American eagle as the pommel, an ear of corn for the grip, and a cactus branch entwined with snakes (for Mexico) as the cross-guard.

Other Ways to Give

A blue ceramic hippopotamus with lotus flower details on its trunk, facing right.

The William Society

An ancient Greek gold coin, featuring the profile of Ptolemy IV Philopator, the fourth Pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt.

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Image of an ivory pendant mask portraying the Queen Mother, Idia, mother to the king of Benin. The mask has inlaid metal and carved scarification marks on the forehead. She is wearing bands of coral beads below the chin. In the openwork tiara and collar are carved stylized mudfish and the bearded faces of Portuguese

Planned Giving Glossary

Contact Us

For more information on how these gifts might work for you, please call Planned Giving at (212) 570 3796 or email us at planned.giving@metmuseum.org

Planned Giving
Development Office
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10028-0198