The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as “The Met” by New Yorkers
This is the equivalent of the British Museum in London. It has everything. It is the perfect incarnation of what a museum should be. It has amazing special limited exhibitions, but their stock exhibits are also fantastic.
So, what do you want to see: Ancient Egypt, Ancient India, China, Japan, Monet, Manet, Rodin? Do you want to see Jade and Gold in ridiculous proportions, God-sized buddhas, intricate brass astronomical instruments from Ancient Middle East, Pyramids, Babylonian Cuneiform, Celtic warrior adornments?
This museum has everything, beautifully. Just take a look at the website, and see what interests you the most. This museum can take a life-time to see. You will come out a better person for having visited (assuming you like learning from the past and all the beautiful things made).
Do NOT try to do it one or two days unless you have some sort of wormhole time machine to warp the space-time contiuum to your will. It will always be here. Come back another time.
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