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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Welcomed Over 5.7 Million Visitors in Fiscal Year 2025

Attendance grew 5 percent year-over-year as The Met continued to attract exceptional local audience visitation

The Museum also recorded its highest single-day attendance in eight years on opening day of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing

(New York, July 21, 2025)—The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced today that it welcomed over 5.7 million visitors to its two locations—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2025 (FY25). The Met’s overall attendance grew by 5 percent since FY24, and for the second consecutive year, local visitorship (New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey residents) exceeded pre-pandemic figures—a 109 percent recovery compared to 2019. Local attendance made up 62 percent of all visitors in FY25, while domestic out-of-state visitors accounted for 23 percent. The Museum also tracked its highest single-day attendance since 2017, recording 33,700 visitors during the public opening day for The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on May 31, 2025.

“We are thrilled by the continued growth of our audiences, particularly across New York City and the surrounding area, with visitors showing incredible enthusiasm for our ambitious programming,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. “Whether through our thought-provoking exhibitions, inventive educational initiatives, or wide-ranging digital offerings, The Met provides an array of ways to engage with our collection spanning 5,000 years of art from across time and around the world.”

Exhibitions were a key driver of visitation to the Museum in FY25, with 40 percent of guests reporting that they planned their trip to The Met to view a specific presentation. Shows on view in FY25 that contributed to the strong attendance include the critically acclaimed summer exhibitions Sargent and Paris (through August 3), which has attracted over 427,000 visitors to date, and Superfine: Tailoring Black Style (through October 26), which so far has welcomed more than 291,000 guests. Other exhibitions that drew high attendance included Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature (with 300,000 visitors), Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 (298,000), and the last months of The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (464,000) and Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion (401,000).

This year, 42 percent of visitors benefited from the Museum’s implementation of new, more expedited ways to enter the Museum’s galleries. In addition to its already-active online ticket sales and scannable membership cards, The Met recently introduced an online ticketing option for New York State residents to reserve pay-what-you-wish tickets from the Museum’s website.

Traveling Exhibitions
Beyond New York City, audiences around the world are engaging with the Museum’s collections and thought-provoking presentations through The Met’s robust traveling exhibition program. Currently on view at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, From Impressionism to Early Modernism: French Masterpieces from the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents 81 paintings from The Met’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, including works by Renoir, Van Gogh, and Cézanne; the display will move to the National Museum of Korea in November. Additionally, exhibitions currently on view at The Met Fifth Avenue will travel around the world following their debut in New York. Sargent and Paris will be on view at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, starting September 23, 2025, and Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronze, 1100–1900, will be staged at the Shanghai Museum starting November 12; The Met co-organized the exhibitions with both museums. In any given year, nearly 1,700 of The Met’s objects are on loan to institutions around the world to help realize creative and ambitious curatorial projects.

Education and Public Programs
The Met offers tens of thousands of free classes, conversations, music, dance and performance programs each year that make art accessible to intergenerational audiences from New York City and beyond. Museum-wide public programming remained popular with audiences, including the annual Lunar New Year Festival (which drew 19,300), the opening festival for The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (18,000), Museum Mile Festival (10,960), and the Museum’s inaugural Fall Festival (10,260).

The Met additionally welcomed 184,945 K-12 students to participate in school tours and workshops, and over 200,000 children and their caregivers enjoyed the Museum’s 81st Street Studio science and art play space. The Museum also celebrated the achievements of local public school students through the exhibitions The Celebration: A Selection of Works by the 2025 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards New York City Gold Key Recipients, and P. S. Art 2025: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids (on view through October 19) . Throughout the year, the Museum hosted over 250 interns and fellows, working closely with Met staff across 40 departments to explore career pathways in visual culture, science, education and museum administration.

Online
The Met's website (metmuseum.org) had more than 27 million visits in FY25, with 35% engaging from outside the United States. The Museum's social media reach is broad: its Instagram has more than 4.5 million followers, X (formerly Twitter) has more than 4.1 million followers, Facebook has more than 2.3 million followers, LinkedIn has more than 430,000 followers, and TikTok reached more than 1.2 million followers. This year the Museum expanded its digital reach by launching official channels on Chinese-language social media platforms Weibo and WeChat, garnering 66,500 and 27,500 followers, respectively.


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July 21, 2025