The Costume Institute houses a collection of more than 30,000 costumes and accessories spanning five continents and as many centuries. Arguably the preeminent institution of its kind in the world, the matrix for The Costume Institute was the Museum of Costume Art, an independent entity formed in 1937.

A spectacular "museum-within-the-museum" for the display of its extraordinary collection of Hellenistic, Etruscan, South Italian, and Roman art - much of it unseen in New York for generations - will open at The Metropolitan Museum of Art this April in its New Greek and Roman Galleries.

The 53rd Season Features the Piano Forte Series with András Schiff, Ivo Pogorelich, and Ivan Moravec; Jordi Savall in Two Concerts; Bach's Mass in B Minor and Handel's Acis and Galatea; Anoushka Shankar, Richie Havens, and Patti Smith; and a Season Opening Concert by Orpheus in the Great Hall
The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the 53rd season of Metropolitan Museum Concerts.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens - businessmen and financiers as well as leading arists and thinkers of the day - who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.