🌏✨ The Met: A Time-Traveling Art Feast!

Step into the Metropolitan Museum of Art 🎨🗺️—a 1870-born treasure trove with 1.5 million+ artworks spanning millennia and the globe! Here’s your guide: 📍 Where? 1000 5th Ave, New York, NY 10028 🗽 ⏰ When to Go? Main Building (Fifth Ave): 🕒 Sun-Tue & Thu: 10am–5pm 🕒 Fri-Sat: 10am–9pm 🛑 Closed Wednesdays, Thanksgiving, Dec 25, Jan 1, + 1st Mon in May. The Cloisters (Medieval Branch): 🕒 Thu–Tue: 10am–5pm 🛑 Same closures as above. 💰 Tickets: Adults: $30 Seniors (65+): $22 Students: $17 Kids (<12), Members: FREE 🎉 🖼️ Must-See Galleries: 1️⃣ 🇺🇸 American Wing 1,000 paintings + 600 sculptures from Colonial times to the 1900s. 🦅🖌️ 2️⃣ 🐪 Near Eastern Art Lamassu: Giant winged guardians from ancient Assyria. 🗿👑 3️⃣ 🇪🇬 Egyptian Temples The Temple of Dendur, gifted by Egypt after the Aswan Dam saved it from flooding. 🏺🌊 4️⃣ 🌍 Arts of Africa, Oceania, & Americas 11,000+ objects from sub-Saharan Africa, Pacific islands, and pre-Columbian Americas. 🗿🏝️ 5️⃣ 🎋 Asian Art 60,000+ treasures from 2000 BCE to 1900 CE—paintings, armor, textiles, and more. 🏯🖼️ 6️⃣ 👑 European Masters Think Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Vermeer… basically every art history legend. 🎨🖼️ Ready to wander through 5,000 years of creativity? The Met’s doors are wide open! 🌏✨ #ArtLovers #NYCMuseums #HistoryBuff #CulturalJourney