====== Metropolitan Museum of Art ======

  * 🔤 aka "The Met"
  * 📍 NYC, Fifth Avenue, 82nd Street
  * 🇺🇸 Largest art museum in the USA
  * 👥 >5M yearly visitors
  * ⏳ Founded in 1870, 4y after the Nat. Institution & Gallery of Art
    * The first art piece was a Roman sarcophagus
    * Soon, many European paintings were added
    * 1880: opened to the public
  * 📏 2M ft<sup>2</sup>
  * 🧮 Tens of thousands of objects
    * European paintings
    * Sculptures from:
      * Baroque period
      * Renaissance
      * Modern age
      * Greek & Roman art
      * Middle East
      * Asia
    * Large Egyptian collection
  * 🚧 Many projects to promote and educate on art:
    * Art libraries
    * Conservation
    * Scientific research
    * Publications
    * Digital collections