Metropolitan Museum of Art
Overview
The largest art museum in the Americas, two million works from every civilization. The Temple of Dendur in a glass hall, Washington Crossing the Delaware, armor courts, an Egyptian temple route, and the Costume Institute's Met Gala. Fifth Avenue and Cloisters sites draw over five million visitors a year.
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