Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, USA

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Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City is a museum of the largest and most comprehensive art museum in New York City and one in the world. The museum was founded in 1870 and later two years later the museum was officially opened. The complex of buildings at its current location in Central Park was opened in 1880. The main building facing Fifth Avenue, designed by Richard Morris Hunt.
Metropolitan Museum has a large collection. An important collection from Egypt, Babylonia, Assyria, far and near East, Greece and Rome, Europe, pre-Columbus, New Guinea, Islamic art, and the United States, including architecture, sculpture, painting, Picture, calligraphy, prints, photographs, glass , bronze, ceramics, textiles, metals, lacquerwork, furniture, period rooms, weapons and armor, and musical instruments.
At the Metropolitan Museum has a permanent collection of the Met treated and exhibited by seventeen separate curatorial department, each with specialized staff curators and scholars, as well as four dedicated Department of Conservation and scientific research departments. Represented in the permanent collection are works of art from the classical era and ancient Egypt, paintings and sculptures from nearly all the European masters and modern art collection and the United States. Met also maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanic, Byzantine and Islamic art. Museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, antique weapons and armor from around the world. A number of renowned interior, starting from the 1st century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed at the Met galleries.

At the Metropolitan Museum there is also the Thomas J. Watson library, built in 1964 primarily for the use of museum staff and visiting scholars, has one of the most complete reference collection of art and archeology in the world. He is the largest network of dedicated library in the museum, but only the Nolen Library is open to the public.