# The Metropolitan Museum of Art Museum in Upper East Side, New York City, one of On View's top museums there. - Address: 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10028 - Hours: Sun–Tue and Thu 10–5, Fri–Sat to 9 - Website: https://www.metmuseum.org - Instagram: [@metmuseum](https://www.instagram.com/metmuseum/) - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/manhattan/map/the-met The roof garden, the modern and contemporary galleries and the Ancient West Asia and Cyprus galleries are closed for renovation. ## Exhibitions ### *Costume Art* May 10, 2026 – Jan 10, 2027 · on view · Gallery 099 The Costume Institute pairs fashion from its collection with artworks from across the Met, grouped by body types, inaugurating new galleries beside the Great Hall. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/costume-art) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/costume-art ### *Krasner and Pollock: Past Continuous* Oct 4, 2026 – Jan 31, 2027 · on view · Gallery 899 More than 120 works tracing the parallel careers of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, from their separate beginnings through Abstract Expressionism to Krasner’s later work. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/krasner-and-pollock-past-continuous) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/krasner-and-pollock-past-continuous ### *Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy* Jun 12, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · on view · Galleries 454, 458 and 803–804 The Met’s first exhibition on Orientalism traces 19th-century European ideas of “the East,” from Napoleon’s Egypt campaign to Osman Hamdi Bey, through paintings, Islamic art, books and design. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/orientalism-between-fact-and-fantasy) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/orientalism-between-fact-and-fantasy ### Liu Wei: *Speculation* Sep 17, 2026 – Jun 8, 2027 · on view · Fifth Avenue facade The 2026 Genesis Facade Commission: four large sculptures by the Beijing-based artist on the Fifth Avenue front, mixing a recurring human hand with urban and historical fragments. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-genesis-facade-commission-liu-wei) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/speculation ### *There Are No Words: Si Lewen’s Parade* Oct 1, 2026 – Jan 5, 2027 · on view · Gallery 690 The Parade, Lewen’s cycle of 63 drawings made after World War II, shaped by his escape from Nazi Germany and arrival at Buchenwald after liberation, from military pageantry to mourning. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/there-are-no-words-si-lewens-parade) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/there-are-no-words-si-lewens-parade ### David Hartt: *Peripheries* Sep 25, 2026 – Feb 7, 2027 · on view · Gallery 735 A two-screen video commission set in the round gallery of John Vanderlyn’s 1818–19 Versailles panorama, with footage filmed from Versailles to the Boulevard Périphérique and central Paris. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/david-hartt-peripheries) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/peripheries ### *Chasing Clouds* Sep 14, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · on view · Gallery 852 Oil sketches, paintings, drawings and photographs from the 1800s to the early 1900s showing how artists, scientists and photographers tried to capture and classify clouds. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/chasing-clouds) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/chasing-clouds ### *A King’s Carpet: Louis XIV and the Savonnerie* Sep 8, 2026 – Mar 5, 2028 · on view · Galleries 524–528 The first US exhibition on the Savonnerie centers on the Met’s three carpets from Louis XIV’s commission for the Louvre’s Grande Galerie, and how they were woven and dispersed. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-kings-carpet-louis-xiv-and-the-savonnerie) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/a-kings-carpet-louis-xiv-and-the-savonnerie ### *P. S. Art 2026: Celebrating the Creative Spirit of New York City Kids* Jun 9 – Oct 26, 2026 · on view · Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education The annual juried show of New York City public school students: 125 works, from pre-K to grade 12 and all five boroughs, chosen from nearly 1,000 entries. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/p-s-art-2026-celebrating-the-creative-spirit-of-new-york-city-kids) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/p-s-art-2026-celebrating-the-creative-spirit-of-new-york-city-kids ### *Futurism, Constructivism, and Dada in Georgia, 1917–1928* Aug 13 – Oct 27, 2026 · on view · Thomas J. Watson Library Avant-garde books and artist collaborations from Tiflis, now Tbilisi, during Georgia’s brief independence and after, mixing Futurism, Dada and Constructivism with local folklore. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/futurism-constructivism-and-dada-in-georgia-1917-1928) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/futurism-constructivism-and-dada-in-georgia-1917-1928 ### *Rediscovering Della Robbia at The Met* Aug 10, 2026 – Jan 17, 2028 · on view · Gallery 521 Twelve glazed terracottas by three generations of the Della Robbia family, brought out of storage, conserved and reattributed, shown with a few loans in a single gallery. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/rediscovering-della-robbia-at-the-met) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/rediscovering-della-robbia-at-the-met ### *Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop* Jul 18, 2026 – May 9, 2027 · on view · Gallery 746 North More than 30 works on the furniture workshop Eleanor Roosevelt co-founded in 1926, with Val-Kill pieces, designs and templates beside the early American furniture that inspired them. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/cottage-industry-the-val-kill-furniture-shop) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/cottage-industry-the-val-kill-furniture-shop ### *City of Memory: Nanjing in the Seventeenth Century* Jun 27, 2026 – Jan 3, 2027 · on view · Galleries 210–216 About 100 objects, mostly from the Met, on how artists in Nanjing worked amid the city’s layered past in the decades around the fall of the Ming dynasty in 1644. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/city-of-memory-nanjing-in-the-17th-century) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/city-of-memory-nanjing-in-the-seventeenth-century ### *Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew* Mar 16, 2026 – May 31, 2027 · on view · Gallery 233 About 50 Korean objects in metal, wood, ceramic, textile and lacquer, shown from the back, inside or underneath to reveal hidden details; a second rotation begins October 31. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/flip-sides-seeing-korean-art-anew) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/flip-sides-seeing-korean-art-anew ### *Celebrating the Year of the Horse* Feb 7, 2026 – Jan 26, 2027 · on view · Gallery 207 Works from the Met’s collection marking the Year of the Horse, from ancient bronze plaques to a Tang earthenware horse and later paintings, on the animal’s role in Chinese life. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/celebrating-the-year-of-the-horse) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/celebrating-the-year-of-the-horse ### *Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930* Jan 24, 2026 – Jun 27, 2027 · on view · Gallery 251 Mass-produced color prints of Hindu gods from the early presses of Kolkata, Pune and Mumbai, which brought affordable images of deities into home shrines across India. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/household-gods-hindu-devotional-prints-1860-1930) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/household-gods-hindu-devotional-prints-1860-1930 ### *The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics* Jan 19, 2026 – Aug 8, 2027 · on view · Galleries 223–232 About 350 Japanese ceramics, from prehistoric Jōmon figurines and haniwa to tea wares, Nabeshima porcelain and modern sculptural pieces, arranged by theme across ten galleries. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-infinite-artistry-of-japanese-ceramics) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/the-infinite-artistry-of-japanese-ceramics ### *Ecologies of Painting* Jan 1, 2026 – Jan 17, 2027 · on view · Gallery 638 European paintings from about 1525 to 1775, including Bruegel’s The Harvesters and Poussin’s Blind Orion, on how artists pictured people’s dependence on, and dominance over, nature. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/ecologies-of-painting) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/ecologies-of-painting ### *Afterlives: Contemporary Art in the Byzantine Crypt* Jan 29, 2024 – Jan 10, 2027 · on view · Gallery 302 Contemporary works about death and the afterlife, including Adrian Piper’s Everything #4, set among Byzantine Egyptian funerary art, jewelry and textiles in the brick-walled crypt under the Grand Staircase. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/afterlives-contemporary-art-in-the-byzantine-crypt) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/afterlives-contemporary-art-in-the-byzantine-crypt ### *The Face of Life: Modern Portraits at The Met* From May 18, 2026 · on view · Galleries 963–965 Nearly 80 works from the Met’s collection, about 1900 to the 1960s, by artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Alice Neel and Marsden Hartley, on portraiture amid modern change. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-face-of-life-modern-portraits-at-the-met) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/the-face-of-life-modern-portraits-at-the-met ### *Decorative Arts in China, 1000 to the Present* From Jul 25, 2026 · on view · Galleries 220–221 More than 100 Chinese objects in porcelain, metal, lacquer, jade, bamboo and silk, arranged across media by taste, social use and meaning rather than by material or date. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/decorative-arts-in-china-1000-to-the-present) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/decorative-arts-in-china-1000-to-the-present ### *A Lasting Legacy: Chinese Jades from New York Collections* From Jul 25, 2026 · on view · Gallery 222 Fifty jades from the Met’s collection shown beside pieces from Heber R. Bishop’s pioneering collection, tracing American collectors’ growing interest in Chinese jade through the 20th century. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-lasting-legacy-chinese-jades-from-new-york-collections) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/a-lasting-legacy-chinese-jades-from-new-york-collections ### *Wedding Attire: Three Cultures, One Celebration* From Dec 22, 2025 · on view · Gallery 599 Wedding ensembles and accessories from China, Japan and Ottoman Turkey and the Balkans, 18th to early 20th century, whose fabrics, colors and motifs carry wishes for a happy marriage. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/wedding-attire-three-cultures-one-celebration) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/wedding-attire-three-cultures-one-celebration ### *Defensive Display: Shields from The Met Collection* From May 12, 2025 · on view · Gallery 380 Shields from around the world and across centuries, from European parade and tournament shields to Persian and Indian examples, on their uses in battle, ceremony and display. Full details: [metmuseum.org](https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/defensive-display-shields-from-the-met-collection) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met/defensive-display-shields-from-the-met-collection ## Other locations - [The Met Cloisters](https://onview.so/manhattan/the-met-cloisters.md), 99 Margaret Corbin Drive, Washington Heights, New York City --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in New York City: https://onview.so/manhattan.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt