Museum of Art Underground

Museum of arts Underground in New York (Metropolitan Museum of Fine Arts) - the largest art museum of the USA based in 1870, formed at the expense of gifts and donations of separate citizens. Donators were as rich industrialists (J. P.Morgan, Горас Хэвмейер and his wife Luizin), and modest collectors.

Ist-Sajd is a shelter of the main cultural centre of New York: the place between the Fifth Avenue and 57th street is known as Museum Mile. Largest of local museums is the Museum of Art the Underground, one of sights of New York. It is as though a separate cultural city where it is stored three million various exhibits, therefore before to plunge into this world, try to imagine, that particularly you wish to look there, differently you simply will get tired and receive not enough pleasure. Here there pass the most different exhibitions where the Egyptian mummies are exhibited, baseball cards and another not less interesting to a thing.

Free excursions go from the Big hall to examine museum masterpieces about each half an hour from Tuesday till Friday and is more rare during week-end.

The museum exposition includes works of art since times of the most ancient civilisations till our days. Among them – hundreds world famous masterpieces. Besides cloths and sculptures, gobelins, musical instruments, suits and attributes of religious cults are shown.