New York Holidays Allow You to Explore The Met
by Amanda Sutcliffe Travel DealsNew York is one of the
modern world's greatest cities visited by plenty of tourists every year. It has
many attractions that delight its visitors and one of them is the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, also known as 'The Met'. This museum, founded in the year 1870,
is visited by more than 7 million individuals every year. Seventeen separate
departments curate its permanent collection with the help of specialised staff
comprising scholars, curators, Department of Scientific Research, and six
dedicated conservation departments.
Upon visiting this museum
during your New York holidays, you'll be able to explore its geographically
designated collections. The Met began collecting arts and artefacts from the
Near East in the late 19th century. The collection of art from the Near Eastern
world has now grown to over 7,000 pieces, which represent the region's history
starting from the Neolithic Age to the end of Late Antiquity. While browsing
through this extensive collection, you'll come across some impressive works
from the Sumerian, Assyrian, Babylonian and other ancient cultures. Major
highlights of this collection are the sculptures from the Assyrian kingdom.
While exploring the
collections of this museum during your cheap
New York holidays, you'll also be able to witness some marvellous
collections from various parts of Africa, Americas, and Oceania. The Peruvian
antiques were first acquired by The Met in the year 1882, but the works from
Oceania, Africa, and the Americas were not collected until 1969. Towards the
late 20th century, Nelson A. Rockefeller, an American businessman and
philanthropist, donated over 3,000 pieces of his collection to this museum.
This contributed immensely to the growth of The Met's collection. In recent
times, the museum's collection of pieces from the regions of sub-Saharan
Africa, the Americas, and the Pacific Islands has grown to over 11,000 pieces.
You can also explore an
excellent collection of Asian artefacts during your cheap New York holidays in
The Met. The museum houses over 35,000 pieces of Asian art today. They have
made it to The Met owing to the support of several philanthropists who gifted
them to the museum at the time of its founding. An entire section is dedicated
to the collection of artefacts from Asia, which spans 4,000 years. Almost every
civilisation of the Asian region is represented in the Asian department. The
pieces displayed in this section include paintings, sculpture, metal works, and
prints. Most notable collections are the Indian sculptures, Chinese paintings,
and arts from Nepal, Tibet, Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia.
Don't miss the Egyptian
arts while exploring The Met. A massive section of 40 Egyptian galleries is
dedicated to the artworks from Egypt. They mostly came from private collections
and archaeological excavations between the years 1906 and 1941. Upon browsing
through the collection, you can witness over 26,000 separate pieces of art from
Egypt. They span a period from the Palaeolithic era to the Ptolemaic era. Among
them are the 13 wooden models that were discovered in a tomb located in the western
part of Thebes during the year 1920.
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