The Met was founded on April 13, 1870, "to be located in the City of New York, for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction."

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens – businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day – who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people. The Metropolitan's paintings collection also began in 1870, when three private European collections, 174 paintings in all, came to the Museum.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collection includes more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

The Department of Egyptian Art was established in 1906 to oversee the Museum's already sizable collection of art from ancient Egypt. The collection had been growing since 1874 thanks to individual gifts from benefactors and acquisition of private collections (such as the Drexel Collection in 1889, the Farman Collection in 1904, and the Ward Collection in 1905), as well as through yearly ...

Department of Asian Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2001. After 300 years of division and fragmentation following the collapse of the Han dynasty in 220 A.D., China was once again unified under the Sui dynasty (581–618). The political and governmental institutions established during this brief period lay the foundation for the growth and prosperity of the succeeding Tang dynasty.

ETHEL, the resident ensemble at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art’s Balcony Bar, will perform in Edmunds Hall on the Presbyterian College campus on Tuesday, Oct. 22. The concert is the second in PC’s 2019-20 Performance Series. The concert begins at 7:30 p.m. Tickets are $5 and will be available at the door.

Closest to her heart was the Museum of Modern Art, where she became a trustee in 1979 and a member of its International Council. During this time she also made diverse gifts to the Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she was elected a Benefactor of that museum, and she endowed the Jaffe-Friede Art Gallery at Dartmouth ...

Four booklets from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miniatures series: (1) Rembrandts in the Metropolitan ©1951, (2) Figure Painting by Renoir ©1952, (3) Self-Portraits ©1954, (4) The Royal Picture Gallery at The Hague ©1954. Each 32 page booklet features 24 full-color miniature reproductions of original works of art in the Metropolitan Museum pictured on 3¾” x 5” stamp and description ...

It is part of the Greenvilleâ€"Mauldinâ€"Easley Metropolitan Statistical Area. The town of Laurens was established by an act of the General Assembly on March 15, 1785 as a location for commercial activities. It was one of the six counties created from the Old Ninety-Six District of South Carolina. Laurens was originally named Laurensville.