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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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Art Work: Artists Working at The Met

June 6–19, 2022

Since 1935, staff members working as a part of The Met community, many of whom are accomplished artists, have shared their creative contributions with each other on a regular basis. This year we are delighted to open this presentation of their work…

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Cycladic Art

Ongoing

The presentation offers an extraordinary opportunity to closely examine a large body of little known Cycladic works that have been repatriated to Greece.

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Art Work: Artists Working at The Met

November 18–December 1, 2024

Since 1935, staff members working as a part of The Met community, many of whom are accomplished artists, have shared their creative contributions with each other on a regular basis. We are delighted to open this presentation of their work to the pu…

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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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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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Lineages: Korean Art at The Met

November 7, 2023–October 20, 2024

In celebration of the twenty-fifth anniversary of The Met’s Arts of Korea gallery, Lineages: Korean Art at The Met showcases highlights of the Museum’s collection paired with important international loans of Korean modern and contemporary art. This…

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Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

December 10, 2021–March 6, 2022

Pink castles, talking sofas, and objects coming to life: what sounds like fantasies from the pioneering animation of Walt Disney Animation Studios were in fact the figments of the colorful salons of Rococo Paris. The Met’s first-ever exhibition exp…

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Art of Native America: The Charles and Valerie Diker Collection

Ongoing

This exhibit showcases historic and contemporary Native American art from 50+ groups across 7 regions, highlighting rich traditions amid colonialism and change.

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Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900

February 28–September 28, 2025

This exhibit reexamines 12th–19th century Chinese bronzes, once seen as imitations, revealing their unique artistry through 200 works from global collections.

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Egyptian Art in the Age of the Pyramids

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Egyptian Art at Eton College

A selection of approximately 150 works from one of the world's finest collections of ancient Egyptian decorative arts.

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The Dawn of Egyptian Art

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Hatshepsut

A fascinating selection of works created during the prosperous reign of Hatshepsut, the great female pharaoh of Egypt's 18th Dynasty.

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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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Late Antique Textiles and Modern Design

This exhibition—drawn entirely from The Met collection—compares foliate patterns and roundels that are found on textiles from the Late Roman, Byzantine, and Early Islamic periods in Egypt to similar motifs in postcards by the Wiener Werkstätte and on garments designed by Mariano Fortuny (1871–1949).

On view November 11, 2016–October 1, 2017

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Discovering Tutankhamun

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The Art of Medicine in Ancient Egypt

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Gallery Eight

Most ancient Egyptians lived in the narrow, lush floodplains along the Nile River and the broad expanse of the Nile Delta.

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Art and Peoples of the Kharga Oasis

This exhibition features thirty works from The Met's early twentieth-century excavation of the Kharga Oasis in Egypt, revealing a richly diverse society between the third and seventh centuries A.D. that integrated Egyptian, Greek, and Roman culture and art.

On view October 11, 2017–April 11, 2021