Private Met Museum tour:
5,000 years in two hours
Destination
New York City, USA
Duration
2 hours
Tour size
Max 10
Language
English
Overview
The Met holds two million works, which is exactly the problem: most visitors wander, get tired, and miss the masterpieces. This Met Museum private tour fixes that with a guide who's yours alone and a curated route, from Van Gogh to the Temple of Dendur, that hits the greatest works without the overwhelm.
- •Stand before Van Gogh's straw-hat self-portrait and Monet's Water Lilies
- •Step inside an ancient Egyptian temple, the Temple of Dendur, in the middle of NYC
- •Trace Picasso's Blue Period back to the heartbreak that shaped it
- •Meet Rodin's sculptures and John Singer Sargent's scandalous Madame X
- •Skip the ticket line and follow a route built around what you most want to see
What's included
- Skip-the-line ticket to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- A private expert guide for your group only
- A curated two-hour highlights route
You will visit
- The European Masters wing: Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso, and Degas
- The Ancient Egyptian galleries and the Temple of Dendur
- The Tomb of Perneb
- The Greek and Roman galleries
- Rodin's sculptures
- John Singer Sargent's Madame X
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The European Masters: Van Gogh, Monet, Picasso
You'll start in the European wing, face to face with Van Gogh's Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat and the struggle behind it. From there it's Monet's Water Lilies, the painting that changed how we see light, and Picasso's Blue Period, where heartbreak became a whole new style. Your guide gives each one the story that makes it land.
The ancient world: an Egyptian temple indoors
Next you'll cross into the ancient galleries and stand before the Temple of Dendur, saved from rising waters and rebuilt whole inside the Met. Nearby are the Tomb of Perneb and the Greek and Roman sculptures that set the rules Western art followed for centuries. It's five millennia of human making, walked in a single wing.
"My job is editing. The Met has two million works and you have two hours, so I take you to the thirty that will stay with you, and tell you why each one matters."
Cherie,
WalksDevour Met guide
"People stop dead at the Temple of Dendur. An entire Egyptian temple, indoors, in Manhattan. No photo prepares you for standing in front of it."
Kevin,
WalksDevour Met guide
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