Metropolitan Museum of Art New York - details and images

There are few people who say it is the best museum in the town or just for variety and richness of the collections. A veritable museum of museums, featuring more than five millennia of culture around the world, has galleries of Egyptian art, European painting, decorative art and American painting, Renaissance painting, Asian art and costumes, etc.. Founded in 1870 and avnad several galleries, started from three private collections in Europe and about 170 pictures to get one of today's most important cultural institutions in America. According to curators, museum collections currently has over two million songs.

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