{"id":118,"date":"2012-10-27T13:40:45","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T17:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/?p=118"},"modified":"2018-08-12T12:57:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-12T16:57:08","slug":"metropolitan-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/2012\/10\/27\/metropolitan-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Museum of Art<\/strong>\u00a0(colloquially\u00a0The Met<\/strong>), located in\u00a0New York City<\/a>, 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 nineteen curatorial departments.<\/sup>\u00a0The main building, located on the eastern edge of\u00a0Central Park<\/a>\u00a0along Manhattan’s\u00a0Museum Mile<\/a>, is by area one of the world’s largest art galleries. There is also a much smaller second location at “The Cloisters<\/a>” in\u00a0Upper Manhattan<\/a>\u00a0that features\u00a0medieval art<\/a>.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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After negotiations with the City of New York in 1871, the Met was granted the land between the East Park Drive, Fifth Avenue, and the 79th and 85th Street Transverse Roads in\u00a0Central Park<\/a>. A red-brick and stone “mausoleum” was designed by American architect\u00a0Calvert Vaux<\/a>\u00a0and his collaborator\u00a0Jacob Wrey Mould<\/a>.<\/sup>\u00a0Vaux’s ambitious building was not well received; the building’s\u00a0High Victorian Gothic<\/a>\u00a0style being already dated prior to completion, and the president of the Met termed the project “a mistake.”<\/sup>\u00a0Within 20 years, a new architectural plan engulfing the Vaux building was already being executed. Since that time, many additions have been made including the distinctive\u00a0Beaux-Arts<\/a>\u00a0Fifth Avenue facade, Great Hall, and Grand Stairway. These were designed by architect and Met trustee\u00a0Richard Morris Hunt<\/a>, but completed by his son,\u00a0Richard Howland Hunt<\/a>\u00a0in 1902 after his father’s death.<\/sup>\u00a0The wings that completed the Fifth Avenue facade in the 1910s were designed by the firm of\u00a0McKim, Mead & White<\/a>. The modernistic glass sides and rear of the museum are the work of\u00a0Roche-Dinkeloo<\/a>.\u00a0Kevin Roche<\/a>\u00a0has been the architect for the master plan and expansion of the museum for the past 42 years. He is responsible for designing all of its new wings and renovations including but not limited to the American Wing, Greek, and Roman Court, and recently opened Islamic Wing.<\/sup><\/p>\n

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As of 2010, the Met measures almost\u00a01<\/sup>\u20444<\/sub>-mile (400\u00a0m) long and with more than 2,000,000 square feet (190,000\u00a0m2<\/sup>) of floor space, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.<\/sup>\u00a0The museum building is an accretion of over twenty structures, most of which are not visible from the exterior. The City of New York owns the museum building and contributes utilities, heat, and some of the cost of guardianship.<\/p>\n

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art\u00a0(colloquially\u00a0The Met), located in\u00a0New 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 nineteen curatorial departments.\u00a0The main building, located on the eastern edge of\u00a0Central Park\u00a0along Manhattan’s\u00a0Museum Mile, is by area one … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":119,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,6],"tags":[33,34,40,37,38,32,9,10,36,35,39,31,30],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1106,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions\/1106"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulpiazzaarchitect.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}