The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Last Wednesday we visited the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC! Located on the Upper East Aide of New York, the MET is one of the most famous museums in America. After taking a taxi from Penn Station, we made it to the MET and made our way up the famous set of stairs that some of you may know from recent Gossip Girl episodes.Once we made it into the museum we were pleased to see that admission for students was only10 dollars (the cheapest we've seen thus far)! So, that was a major plus. However, since it is one of the most famous museums in America, and arguably world wide, it was EXTREMELY busy. Lines for admission tickets were quite long and overall the museum was really packed. People around us were speaking all different languages so it was really cool to be able to come for the day to such a world renowned tourist attraction.

We found this museum to be the most overwhelming. It was really hard to keep up with all of the exhibits and which cultural era each one represented. This is also another museum that we may recommend splitting the visit into two because of the breadth of the museum's pieces. However, due to ISP time constraints, our busy schedules, and for the sake of efficiency we were forced to jam pack this enormous museum into just 2 hours.

The first thing we saw was art from Ancient Greece. There were tons of naked statues and lots of artifacts such as coffins and

jewelry. One of the really cool things we saw was a large vase

covered in black and white geometric patterns. (See picture). We also saw a Roman exhibit which was very similar to the Greek exhibit, and some artifacts from Middle Eastern and Mesopotamian people. We got yelled at a lot for taking pictures with flash

Another thing we saw while at the MET, was a special Picasso exhibit. This exhibit was the busiest one we've seen all ISP, there was basically no room to take pictures of his paintings and everyone was crowded around each and every painting. They were supposed to be sexually explicit but most of them weren't, but regardless they were all very interesting. It's always breathtaking seeing such a famous artists paintings in person. Unfortunately we weren't allowed to take many pictures because of security and because of all the people surrounding his work.

An additional highlight of the MET was a European art exhibit where we saw Impressionist &

Post-Impressionist painting and modern photography. We especially enjoyed portrayal a scene in the park. Julia recognized it as a pointillism from her AP Art History Class, which is painting style that used small distinct dots to form a bigger image.

Overall Rating : 7

Student Friendliness: 5

Do we recommend visiting: 7