Life Is Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, is one of the world's most renowned and largest art museums. Located in New York City, the museum boasts a collection of over two million works of art spanning five thousand years of history.   Image Credit: Hugo Schneider, CC BY-SA 2.0 < https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0 >, via Wikimedia Commons Established in 1870 by a group of American citizens who aimed to create a museum that could compete with the great European museums of the time, the Met has grown to become one of the most significant cultural institutions in the United States and the world. Its vast collection of art includes artifacts and art from a diverse range of cultures and time periods, from ancient Egyptian artifacts to contemporary art. The Met's collection is divided into 17 curatorial departments, each focusing on a specific culture, time period, or medium. Some of the most notable curatorial departments include Ancient Near Eastern A...