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Departments

Curatorial

Curatorial departments study, exhibit, and care for over two million objects in The Met Collection.

Brightly lit gallery with objects in vitrines at various elevations in the background. In the center are several seated statues on pedestals.
African Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Gold statue of a nude woman, pointing a bow and arrow in the direction of a stately gray facade.
The American Wing
Bright gallery with white pedestals showcasing a variety of stone statues and objects in glass cases.
Ancient American Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
Rendering of the New Galleries for the Art of the Ancient West Asia and Cyprus
Ancient West Asian Art
Knights parade through the equestrian court
Arms and Armor
An interior courtyard with pagodas, plantings, ornamental rocks, and a fish pond
Asian Art
Golden dresses in the Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion exhibition
The Costume Institute
Room with wooden floors, gray walls, and framed drawings and prints.
Drawings and Prints
An ancient Egyptian temple structure displayed inside a museum, surrounded by a water with sunlight shining through a wall of glass windows.
Egyptian Art
Art gallery interior featuring oil paintings of interior scenes in ornate gold frames, with a blue wall and wooden flooring.
European Paintings
A sunlit gallery featuring classical sculptures against elegant stone walls, with large windows allowing natural light to flow in.
European Sculpture and Decorative Arts
A view of the Greek and Roman Galleries in soft daylight with no visitors. The contrasts of the black floor and pedestals and white stone statues and columns creates a dramatic image.
Greek and Roman Art
Islamic Art galleries at The Met
Islamic Art
A spacious museum gallery with a Spanish choir screen in the center and filled with large-scale medieval sculptures, altarpieces, tapestries, and furniture.
Medieval Art and The Cloisters
Large sculpture on the roof of The Met Museum
Modern and Contemporary Art
A majestic wooden pipe organ with gold pipes, viewed from below, set against an elegant, intricately designed ceiling.
Musical Instruments
Tall ancestor poles arranged in a curve in the center of a bright white gallery space.
Oceanic Art in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing
A gallery room with black-and-white portrait photographs on the walls and a display case containing open books in the center.
Photographs
A room within the Robert Lehman Collection at The Met with red walls displays framed Renaissance religious paintings, a dark ornate chest, and wooden furniture.
The Robert Lehman Collection

Conservation and Scientific Research

Conservators and scientists collaborate with curators to study, preserve, and conserve the works in The Met Collection.

Our work
Our history
View of the Costume Institute Conservation lab, showing various examination tables, shelves of instruments, and a Charles James couture ballgown in the corner
Costume Institute Conservation
East Asian Paintings Conservation Studio
East Asian Painting Conservation
Two conservators in their lab staining wood paneling for the British Galleries
Objects Conservation
Department of Paintings Conservation
Paintings Conservation
A woman looking through a telescope, examining a colorful work of art on paper
Paper Conservation
Woman facing large grid of color photographs, reaching up with small light measuring tool
Photograph Conservation
Photographed up-close, from three-quarter view, a piece of silver scientific equipment shines a precise bulls-eye light on a painting of blue irises.
Scientific Research
5 individuals in white lab coats kneel over a large, flat textile to clean it with foam and water, using sponges and other tools.
Textile Conservation
Two people work in a media lab; one handles a film reel and one operates electronic equipment.
Time-Based Media Conservation