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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 253,777 works shared openly by the museum, shown in Auriaan as a galaxy of stars.

Fly into this collection

Opens the Auriaan flight. Every work is a star; the picture and its details come live from the museum.

Museum: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
City: New York
Country: United States
Works in Auriaan: 253,777
Licence: CC0 (Open Access)

At the museum

The museum's own page: Open Access page, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Credit line used in Auriaan: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Open Access, CC0.

Some works from this collection

Island of the Dead · Arnold Böcklin · Reisinger Fund, 1926 · View at the museum
In the tour Artists of Switzerland in the world's museums
Cat Seated under a Chair · Hugh R. Hopgood, after an Egyptian wall painting · Rogers Fund, 1930 · View at the museum
In the tour Animal hunt
Pilgrimage to the Torinomachi Festival across the Ricefields of Asakusa · Utagawa Hiroshige · Rogers Fund, 1914 · View at the museum
In the tour Animal hunt
Portrait of the artist's great-granduncle Yizhai at the age of eighty-five · Ruan Zude · Seymour Fund, 1959 · View at the museum
In the tour 1,800 years of faces

Tours with works from this collection

Artists of Switzerland in the world's museumsTen artists born or at home in Switzerland, from Liotard to Klee, in nine museums around the world.
Animal huntEight animals are hiding in works of art from all over the world. Can you find them?
1,800 years of facesTen portraits, from Roman Egypt to Van Gogh. Look for the clues: who, when, and why?
The world around 1600What were artists making around 1600? A journey westward from Japan to Spain, in ten works, most of them made within about ten years of that date.
Blue and whiteHow cobalt blue on white travelled from China to Turkey, Holland, Japan, Mexico, Korea and England: ten pieces, roughly in the order they were made.
The moonA god, a hare, a bodhisattva, a crescent, a castle, a jar, geese, photographs, the sea and a city by night: the moon in ten works from around the world.
The seaWaves, a storm, a calm, a harbour and a sunrise: eight ways of looking at the sea, across 3,000 years.
A walk through the seasonsA calm walk from spring to winter, in eight works. Large text, a gentle voice and no hurry.
Look closerSeven famous works, each with a small detail most people miss. Find it yourself, then hear its story.
How old is it?Eight works from four museums. Guess when each was made before you hear the story: some are far older than they look, and two are younger.
Albrecht DürerEleven works by the painter and printmaker from Nuremberg: a self-portrait, a rhinoceros and a magic square.
Rembrandt, in the mirrorTen self-portraits, painted, etched and drawn: from the curly-haired young man to the old master.
VermeerThirteen of his rare paintings, in the order he made them: quiet rooms, letters and light.
Giovanni Battista PiranesiRome, real and imagined, in the order he etched it: ruins, squares, prisons, temples and a fireplace.
Hokusai & HiroshigeThe two masters of the Japanese landscape print, side by side: ten prints, in roughly the order they were made.
Van GoghTen years of work, from the grey Dutch coast to the colours of the south: eleven works, in the order he made them.
Vilhelm HammershøiGrey rooms, white doors, light on the floor and a woman seen from behind: ten works, roughly in the order he made them.

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