Recent Developments
The Met continues to refine and reorganize the collections in its existing spaces. In June 1998, the Arts of Korea gallery opened to the public, completing a major suite of galleries — a museum within the museum — devoted to the arts of Asia. Meanwhile a multimillion-dollar renovation of the acclaimed Greek and Roman Galleries is near completion, allowing the public to enjoy, among other priceless antiquities, a collection of archaic Attic sculpture second only to that in Athens.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Web site (www.metmuseum.org) gives everyone an opportunity to experience the museum. About 6,500 objects — highlights from each of the curatorial departments as well as the entire Department of European Paintings and Department of American Paintings and Sculpture — can be accessed online. A new feature, the extended Timeline of Art History, helped attract more than 10 million visitors to the site in 2003. While shoppers can purchase the majority of the Met Store’s catalogue online, the museum continues to expand its retail outlets around the country, recently opening in several new locations, including Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey.
