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Past Exhibition

Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now

November 17, 2024–February 17, 2025
Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. I…
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Upcoming Exhibition

Divine Egypt

October 12, 2025–January 19, 2026
Divine Egypt showcases 250 works revealing how ancient Egyptians used images to connect with their gods, blending art, ritual, and daily life across millennia.
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Arts of the Ancient Americas

Ongoing
Following a multiyear renovation, the new installation reintroduces visitors to the Museum’s collection of ancestral arts of the Americas, representing the artistic legacy of Indigenous artists from across North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean prior to 1600 CE.
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Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt

Through January 10, 2027
This exhibit brings together modern-day works that reckon with death and visualize the afterlife with Byzantine Egyptian funerary art and artifacts.
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Past Exhibition

Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art

March 5–June 16, 2024
The process of creating textiles has long been a springboard for artistic invention. In Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art, two extraordinary bodies of work separated by at least 500 years are brought together to explore the striking con…
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Past Exhibition

Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color

July 5, 2022–March 26, 2023
Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation. Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color reveals the colorful backstory of polychromy—meaning “many colors,” in Greek—and presents new …
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Past Exhibition

The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met

May 24, 2021–January 7, 2024
The Good Life: Collecting Late Antique Art at The Met showcases the Museum’s important and rare collection of third- to eighth-century art from Egypt and reevaluates it through the lens of late antique ideas about abundance, virtue, and shared clas…
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Past Exhibition

The African Origin of Civilization

December 14, 2021–October 6, 2024
Scholars today recognize Africa as the source of our common ancestry. But in 1974, Senegalese scholar and humanist Cheikh Anta Diop shocked and challenged historians by asserting the influence of ancient African civilizations in his groundbreaking …
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Past Exhibition

Africa & Byzantium

November 19, 2023–March 3, 2024
Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions wit…
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Past Exhibition

Tree & Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE–400 CE

July 21–November 13, 2023
This is the story of the origins of Buddhist art. The religious landscape of ancient India was transformed by the teachings of the Buddha, which in turn inspired art devoted to expressing his message. Sublime imagery adorned the most ancient monume…
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Ancient Egypt Transformed

The reunification of ancient Egypt achieved by the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom was followed by a great cultural flowering that lasted nearly four hundred years. During the Middle Kingdom (around 2030–1650 B.C), artistic, cultural, religious, and political traditions first conceived and instituted during the Old Kingdom were revived and reimagined. This transformational era is represented through 230 powerful and compelling works in this major international exhibition.

On view October 12, 2015–January 24, 2016

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The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

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Gallery One

The great pyramid age of ancient Egypt, which we designate the Old Kingdom (ca. 2649–2130 B.C.), disintegrated after the long reign of Pepi II and the short-reigned kings who followed him.

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Nedjemankh and His Gilded Coffin

A highly ornamented ancient Egyptian coffin from the first century B.C., inscribed for a high-ranking priest, is on view with seventy objects from The Met collection that contextualize the role of the priest, his burial, and the decoration on the coffin.

On view July 20, 2018–February 12, 2019

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Haremhab

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Gifts for the Gods

The first exhibition to focus on the art and significance of Egyptian metal statuary, which is connected with the drama and intimacy of ancient temples.

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Tutankhamun's Funeral

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WILD: Fashion Untamed

This Costume Institute exhibition presents an extensive exploration of man's ongoing obsession with animalism as expressed through clothing.

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Farouk Hosny/Adam Henein

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Along the Nile

Some forty-five nineteenth-century photographs of Egypt's dramatic landscapes, exotic inhabitants, and imposing monuments.