Culture / Museum / Upper East Side
8.9 / 10The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Two million works and some genuinely magnificent rooms — go off-peak or the crowd wins.
- Where
- 1000 5th Ave, Upper East Side Open in Google Maps ↗
- Closed
- Wednesdays
- Price
- $$
- Get
- The Temple of Dendur · The American Wing · The roof garden in season
- Go when
- Weekday mornings, or Friday evening
- Good for
- A whole day · Rain · Free for NY State
- Good with
- Solo · A date · Family
- Website
- www.metmuseum.org
The encyclopedic one. Egyptian temples, arms and armor, the European paintings, the American Wing — any one of them is a full visit, and trying to do the building in a day is how people end up remembering nothing. There are rooms in here that are genuinely magnificent, worth the trip on their own.
What to know
The only real problem is the crowd. Go during off-peak hours and it becomes a different museum, not a shuffle. Admission is pay-what-you-wish for New York State residents and students from NY, NJ and CT with ID; everyone else pays a set price. The roof garden opens seasonally, and the Met Cloisters uptown is included on the same ticket, for that day only.
Going? Tell them MUSEENYC sent you. It's not a discount and there's nothing to redeem — we just want them to know where you heard it.