The Metropolitan Museum of Art(the Met, The Met Fifth Avenue)

Getting lost at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a kind of bliss—turning past Roman columns, you suddenly stumble upon the Temple of Dendur, the Nile's mist seemingly still condensed on the sandstone. Lingering for a long time before "Riverside Scene" in the Chinese gallery, one can almost hear the pine trees whispering in Fan Kuan's ink-wash landscape. Most wondrously, in the European armor gallery, a knight's visor still bears the marks of 1547, while a Giacometti sculpture in the adjacent modern gallery speaks to it with a similarly rugged posture. Sitting in the tiered lobby at closing time, listening to an impromptu piano performance, twilight streaming through the glass dome onto Rodin's "The Gates of Hell," you suddenly feel that the entire museum is like an ark carrying human civilization, with each exhibit an anchor point for its journey.

The Chinese Pavilion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is truly worth a visit. Across thousands of miles, it still amazes the world! I'm grateful to Victor Zhou for his professional and thoughtful explanation, which made this trip to New York a perfect ending!

There are too many highlights. If you want to talk about them by topic, just visit the Egyptian Pavilion. There are two unique highlights here. 1. See the temple. This is a temple that was moved from Egypt as a whole (the relocation project of the Aswan Reservoir). 2. The burial figurines of the major archaeological discoveries are very colorful and reproduce the life 4,000 years ago.

Came here on September 19, 2017. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most important museums in the world. With the influence of American imperialism, it has collected cultural relics and artworks from various civilizations around the world through plunder. Most of these exhibits are representative cultural relics of various civilizations. I believe that every visitor will feel mixed emotions here. The entire museum is classified according to different civilizations on different continents. Because everyone knows the origin of the collections, the exhibition is very simple and crude, that is, putting the things of a civilization in one place, without any good narrative, it is completely a "trophy" display. There are many collections here. If you want to see them carefully, you need to spend one or two days. The museum is next to Central Park, and the two places can also be arranged to visit in one day, half a day in the park and half a day in the museum.

〇Tickets Adults: $30 Seniors (65 and over): $22 Students: $17 Members and children (under 12): Free *New York City residents and students in New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey can donate any amount to enter the museum with their ID *Tickets include all permanent and special exhibitions at the Metropolitan Museum and its branches *Tickets allow unlimited entry to the Metropolitan Museum on the same day Opening hours 10:00-17:00 (closed on Wednesdays) extended to 21:00 on Fridays and Saturdays •Address 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street New York, NY, 10028 •Transportation The nearest subway station to the Metropolitan Museum is the Green Line 86 St (Line 4, 5,6) It takes about 10-15 minutes to walk from the subway to the museum

🚶 Plan at least 3 hours for the highlights 10:00-11:30: Egyptian Pavilion (Mummy, Sphinx) → American Wing (Oil Painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware River) 11:30-12:30: Asian Pavilion (Bronze, Ukiyo-e) → Medieval Armor Exhibition Hall (Knight Armor Array) 12:30-13:00: Roof Garden (Central Park Panorama + Contemporary Art Installation) 📌 Practical Tips Tickets: Non-New York residents need to pay $25 full price ticket, and can enter the branch museum The Met Cloisters for free within 3 days with the ticket. Guide: Download The Met App to get free Chinese audio guide, or rent a guide on the first floor ($7 including map). Taboo: Backpacks need to be stored, selfie sticks and flash are prohibited, and only plastic bottles of water are allowed.

First, check out the guides online, then take a map and circle the important things to see, plan your route and then go, this is more efficient. The first floor is mainly for the Egyptian exhibition area, such as mummies and sphinxes, as well as weapons and armor exhibition areas. The armor of the German emperor and the French king is more worth seeing. The second floor is mainly for paintings, including Monet's "Water Lilies" and "Sunflowers", Van Gogh's "Rose" and "A Bouquet of Flowers in a Vase". We went in at 3:30 pm and came out at 5 pm. We were very rushed and only visited for an hour and a half, so we could only see some highlights. If you have enough time, it is recommended to reserve half a day for the visit.

As expected of the world's most famous museum, we saw ancient Greek and Roman sculptures, ancient Egyptian mummies, famous paintings from the European Renaissance, and the most representative works of impressionism and abstraction by Picasso, Van Gogh, Monet, etc. We didn't want to leave there!