where is the met located in new york
Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met,"[a] is located in New York City, and is the largest art museum in the United States. With 7.06 million visitors in 2016, it was the second most visited art museum in the world, and the fifth most visited museum of any kind. [8] Its permanent collection contains over two million works,[9] divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe. On March 18, 2016, the museum opened the Met Breuer museum at Madison Avenue in the Upper East Side; it extends the museum's modern and contemporary art program.
Met Gala Institute Gala is a major fundraising benefit that serves as an opening celebration for the Institute's annual fashion exhibit.[3][4] Following the event, the exhibition runs for several months. The 2014 exhibition was scheduled to run from May 8 until August 10, 2014.[5] The Gala is widely regarded as one of the most exclusive social events in New York and one of the biggest fundraising nights in the city with $9 million raised in 2013 and a record of $12 million the following year.[6][7][8][9] It is one of the most notable sources of funding for the Institute.[10] The affair, attended by personalities from the arts, fashion, high-society, film, and music, has been held at the Met since 1948[11] and is considered to be the fashion industry's premier annual red carpet event.[4][12][13][14][15][16] Its red carpet fashions are widely photographed, reviewed, critiqued, and emulated.[17][18][19][20] The museum is closed to the general public on the first Monday of May due to the gala occurring.[21]