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'''The Metropolitan Museum of Art''' (sometimes abbreviated as "the Met," though this is also often used for The Metropolitan Opera), located on the edge of [[Central Park]] in the Upper East Side of [[New York City]], [[New York]], is one of the largest and most extensive art [[museum]]s in the United States and even the world, with more than 2 million works of art in its permanent collection<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/index.asp</ref> and more than 2 million square feet of floorspace<ref>.http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=1138</ref>  

'''The Metropolitan Museum of Art''' (sometimes abbreviated as "the Met," though this is also often used for The Metropolitan Opera), located on the edge of [[Central Park]] in the Upper East Side of [[New York City]], [[New York]], is one of the largest and most extensive art [[museum]]s in the United States and even the world, with more than 2 million works of art in its permanent collection<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/index.asp</ref> and more than 2 million square feet of floorspace<ref>.http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=1138</ref>  

The Metropolitan Museum of Art first opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum, served as its first President, and the publisher George Palmer Putnam came on board as its founding Superintendent. <ref> [http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/246896968/ NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art.] </ref> The first work ever to be acquired by the museum is a marble Roman sarcophagus listed as "Asiatic garland sarcophagus";<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rsar/ho_70.1.htm</ref> it is given the categorization number "70.1" because it was acquired in the year 1870 (the same year that the museum itself was established by an act of the New York State Legislature) and because it was the first piece of art acquired.<ref>http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=1138</ref>

The Metropolitan Museum of Art first opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. John Taylor Johnston, a railroad executive whose personal art collection seeded the museum, served as its first President, and the publisher George Palmer Putnam came on board as its founding Superintendent.<ref>[http://www.flickr.com/photos/wallyg/246896968/ NYC Metropolitan Museum of Art.]</ref> The first work ever to be acquired by the museum is a marble Roman sarcophagus listed as "Asiatic garland sarcophagus";<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/rsar/ho_70.1.htm</ref> it is given the categorization number "70.1" because it was acquired in the year 1870 (the same year that the museum itself was established by an act of the New York State Legislature) and because it was the first piece of art acquired.<ref>http://www.humanitiesweb.org/human.php?s=g&p=a&a=i&ID=1138</ref>

[[File:Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|300px|right]]

[[File:Metropolitan Museum of Art.jpg|300px|right]]

The art is organized into twenty-two "curatorial departments."<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/curatorial_departments</ref>  

The art is organized into twenty-two "curatorial departments."<ref>http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/curatorial_departments</ref>  

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