One of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located along Fifth Avenue -from 80th to 84th Streets- in New York City's Central Park. More than 4 million people visit the museum every year. The Cloisters, a branch of the Museum housing much of the Museum's medieval art collection, is located in Fort Tryon Park in northern Manhattan overlooking the Hudson River and the Palisades.Collections and exhibitions, shops, food facilities, educational programs, and tours make the Met one of New York City's major tourist attractions.

The Whitney Museum of American Art is precisely what its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, intended it to be: a celebration of the richness and diversity of American art created in this century. A sculptor herself, Mrs. Whitney identified with the artist's quest for recognition.