The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met" is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Each year, the Metropolitan Museum has about 5 million visitors.

The mission of the museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and understand the wide range of human achievements.

Each year the museum receives hundreds of works of art as gifts. Its permanent collection contains over two million works and there are 24 rooms divited in different eras that represent different parts of the world. The collection includes paintings and sculptures by American and European artists. There are also suits, costumes and artifacts. The museum organizes about 30 exhibitions every year.

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The Metropilen offers family and children's programs, as well as many benefits for young visitors. In his "Children's reading room" both parents and children can read or use a computer together to get more information about the museum. There are many souvenirs and games that are sold in the museum.

Visitors need a full day or maybe two days to study the whole museum. "Met" also offers tours to specific themes, such as Chinese art, Impressionism and Post-imperialism, American paintings and Egyptian art.

The entrance is usually $12, but for students it is $7. The Metropolitan Museum is a place you must visit when you go to New York.