New York - Metropolitan Museum of Art exterior - postcard 1980s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  The Metropolitn Museum of Art, New York City
• Publisher:  the museum?
• Postally used:  yes
• Stamp:  USA Airmail (William T Piper 40c issue)
• Postmark(s):  New York, 1988
• Sent to:  Newlyn, Penzance, Cornwall, England
• Notes / condition: 

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art (colloquially The Met), located in New York City, is the largest art museum in the United States with among the most significant art collections. Its permanent collection contains more than two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments.^[6] The main building, located on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. There is also a much smaller second location at ""The Cloisters"" in Upper Manhattan that features medieval art.^[7]

Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine, and Islamic art.^[8] The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world.^[9] Several notable interiors, ranging from 1st-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries.^[10]

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens. The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.^[2] It opened on February 20, 1872, and was originally located at 681 Fifth Avenue.^[11]

As of 2007, the Met measures almost ¹/₄-mile (400 m) long and occupies more than 2,000,000 square feet (190,000 m²).^[12]

The Met's permanent collection is cared for and exhibited by seventeen separate curatorial departments, each with a specialized staff of curators and scholars, as well as four dedicated conservation departments and a department of scientific research.^[6]

Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from classical antiquity and Ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. The Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art.^[8] The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world.^[9] A number of notable interiors, ranging from 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries.^[10]

In addition to its permanent exhibitions, the Met organizes and hosts large traveling shows throughout the year.^[13]

The director of the museum is Thomas P. Campbell, a long-time curator, who replaced Philippe de Montebello following his retirement at the end of 2008.

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The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870 ""for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations"".^[49]

The museum first opened on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum, served as its first president, and the publisher George Palmer Putnam came on board as its founding superintendent. The artist Eastman Johnson acted as co-founder of the museum. Various other industrialists of the age served as co-founders, including Howard Potter. The former Civil War officer, Luigi Palma di Cesnola, was named as its first director.^[50] He served from 1879 to 1904. Under their guidance, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Mrs. Nicholas Cruger Mansion also known as the Douglas Mansion (James Renwick, 1853–54, demolished) at 128 West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations proved temporary, as the growing collection required more space than the mansion could provide.^[51]

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