The Metropolitan Museum Of Art Suggested Admission Wednesday

Free (Suggested) Admission Wednesdays at the The Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Avenue - see INFO below. The Met Fifth Avenue presents over 5,000 years of art spanning all cultures and time periods. Today, tens of thousands of objects are on view at any given time in the Museum's two-million-square-foot building. A comprehensive architectural plan for the Museum by the architects Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates was approved in 1971 and completed in 1991. Among the additions to the Museum as part of the master plan are the Robert Lehman Wing (1975), which houses an extraordinary collection of Old Masters, as well as Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art; The Sackler Wing (1978), which houses the Temple of Dendur; The American Wing (1980), whose diverse collection includes 25 recently renovated period rooms; The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing (1982) displaying the arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas; the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing (1987) of modern and contemporary art; and the Henry R. Kravis Wing (1991) devoted to European sculpture and decorative arts from the Renaissance to the beginning of the 20th century. Open Seven Days a Week: Sunday–Thursday: 10 am–5:30 pm Friday and Saturday: 10 am–9 pm Closed Thanksgiving Day, December 25, January 1, and the first Monday in May. More Info below.