Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

The Metropolitan Museum of New York, also known as the Met, is certainly the most important museum in the country and one of your key appointments on your trip to New York.

Centrally located at 1000 Fifth Avenue, at the intersection of this with 82nd Street, the impressive building that looks more like a palace itself an emperor housed inside a huge tour of art from all places and moments in history.

Founded in 1870, it contains more than a million pieces, including a complete Egyptian temple which was transferred by boat to the city. In this report husking the most interesting aspects for visitors.

 His large collection

Its permanent collection includes sections ranging from art in Egypt and the Greco-Roman classical antiquity to large works of impressionist and post-impressionist painting and a lot of pieces of the French sculptor Rodin.

Also noteworthy are the collections of classic and modern European masters (Raphael, Titian, Rembrandt, Picasso, Braque) and numerous pieces of art from Asia, Africa and Oceania, and most unique collections of photography, furniture, musical instruments, drawings, costumes and armor.

The key points of the museum

- The Temple of Dendur

It stands in the museum as it did in ancient Egypt, facing a small lake. It is the oldest building in New York, Gift of the Egyptian government to the United States in gratitude for their help in the preservation of Nubian monuments during the construction of the Aswan Dam. Data on the time of Roman Emperor Caesar Augustus and the visitor can cross it freely.

The details of construction and architectural environment where is exposed, making it one of the most important museums of New York.

It is located in the Egyptian galleries with an excellent collection of sphinxes, sarcófamos and mummies, along with remains of tombs such as Perneb or Meketre, great value.

- The medieval hall

This impressive room transports visitors to medieval times of knights in armor and cathedrals inhabited by monks of art lovers. You will see sculptures, altars, furniture and tapestries from the XIV to XVI, along with real armor and a huge grille forges from Spain.

In an adjacent room armor of King Henry VIII is, along with weapons from medieval and Asian cultures of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

- Buddhist Sculptures

In the galleries of Asian art are a magnificent collection of unique Buddhist sculptures in the West. There are sculptures of stone, bronze and wood, representing deities and Bodhisattva or Amitabha, the seventh century. Galleries 206 and 208.

- The Astor Chinese Garden

A Chinese small but lovely garden designed for quiet and reflection. It was built using traditional elements of the XVII century with materials and tools of the time. Do not miss the furniture from Ming Dynasty, one of the most evocative and placid city museum spaces.

- The collection of Greco-Roman art

Rooms housing some interesting sculptures and furniture of the Greek and Roman eras. Do not miss the Greek Amphora terracotta Euphiletos (from 530 BC), used at the time to store oil or wine and richly decorated with paintings.

- Perseus with the Head of Medusa

The highlight of the living European sculpture is a replica of the original Canova exposed in the Vatican, not to mention the Ugolino and his sons ean-Baptiste Carpeaux

- Large paintings

We start with a big picture of great historical value for the United States of America: Washington Crossing the Delaware, a work of epic 1851 Leutze type that represents this mythical scene of national history.

Most recognizable worldwide are paintings by Van Gogh room 823, "Field with Cypresses" of 1889 and the works of Pollock and Verner. In room 815, highlights the works of Degas (paintings and sculptures) themed dancers, also recognizable by all.