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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Phone:
+1 212-535-7710

Hours:
Sunday10am - 5:30pm
Monday10am - 5:30pm
Tuesday10am - 5:30pm
Wednesday10am - 5:30pm
Thursday10am - 5:30pm
Friday10am - 9pm
Saturday10am - 9pm


The Museum of the City of New York is a history and art museum in New York City, New York. It was founded by Henry Collins Brown, in 1923 to preserve and present the history of New York City, and its people. It is located at 1220–1227 Fifth Avenue from East 103rd to 104th Streets, across from Central Park in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, at the northern end of the Museum Mile section of Fifth Avenue. The red brick with marble trim museum was built in 1929–30 and was designed by Joseph H. Freedlander in the neo-Georgian style, with statues of Alexander Hamilton and DeWitt Clinton by sculptor Adolph Alexander Weinman facing Central Park from niches in the facade.The museum is a private non-profit organization which receives government support as a member of New York City's Cultural Institutions Group, commonly known as CIGs. Its other sources of income are endowments, admission fees, and contributions.The Museum currently hosts the first-ever museum presentation of New York City's four-century history in its New York At Its Core permanent exhibition.
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