Met Express:
Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Destination
New York City, USA
Duration
2 hours
Tour size
Max 18
Language
English
Overview
The Met holds 5,000 years of art in over two million square feet of gallery space. That is a lot of ground to wander without a plan. This met museum highlights tour puts an art historian at your side and a curated route in front of you.
- •Walk into the Ancient Egyptian galleries and stand inside a 2,000-year-old temple reconstructed behind glass
- •Trace Western art from Greek marble to Picasso's Blue Period with an art historian who knows which rooms matter
- •Pause at Monet's Water Lilies, where the canvases stretch wide enough to fill your peripheral vision
- •Meet Madame X, the portrait so scandalous it forced John Singer Sargent out of Paris
What's included
- Skip-the-line ticket to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Local English-speaking art expert guide
You will visit
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met)
- Ancient Egyptian Galleries
- Temple of Dendur
- Tomb of Perneb
- Greek and Roman Galleries
- Auguste Rodin sculptures
- Pablo Picasso and Edgar Degas paintings
- Claude Monet, Water Lilies
- Vincent van Gogh paintings
- John Singer Sargent, Madame X
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What to expect
Ancient Egypt at the Met, from tomb chambers to a temple in Manhattan
Your guide meets you in the main lobby and walks you straight into the Ancient Egyptian galleries. The Tomb of Perneb dates to around 2380 BCE, and you can step inside the entrance chamber that once sat in the sands at Saqqara. From there, you'll reach the Temple of Dendur, a sandstone structure the Egyptian government gifted to the United States in 1965. It sits in its own glass-walled wing with a reflecting pool at its feet and Central Park visible through the windows.
Greece, Rome, and the sculptors who made stone look soft
From Egypt, your guide takes you through the Greek and Roman galleries, where centuries of carved marble line the corridors. You'll see how sculptors made draped fabric, tensed muscle, and human weight convincing in stone. Rodin's bronzes sit nearby, and the line from the classical works to his more restless, modern figures is one your guide draws well.
"I always stop at the marble lion in the Greek galleries. Twenty-three centuries old, and you can still see the chisel marks."
Kevin,
WalksDevour art expert guide
"The Temple of Dendur is the room that makes people go quiet. I give them a minute before I say anything."
Katie,
WalksDevour guide
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