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"Metropolitan Museum of Art, by name the Met, the largest and most comprehensive art museum in New York City and one of the foremost in the world. The museum was incorporated in 1870 and opened two years later. The complex of buildings at its present location in Central Park opened in 1880.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art or the Met as it is commonly known, was founded in the year 1870, and is one of the most famous museum in the United States. The Permanent connection of the Met contains more than 2 million world of art, spanning a period of 5,000 years.

The Met’s main building facing Fifth Avenue, called since 2016 the Met Fifth Avenue, was designed by Richard Morris Hunt and completed in 1902. McKim, Mead, and White designed certain later additions. The American section, added in 1924, included the 1823 marble facade saved from the demolished U.S. Branch Bank on Wall Street. The remainder of the 20th-century additions were completed by the architectural firm of Kevin Roche John Din