Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, often called the Met, is the largest art museum in the United States and one of the largest in the world. Founded in 1870, its main building stands on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile in New York City, and its collection spans more than five thousand years of art from across the globe.

The Met's European paintings galleries hold one of the finest groups of Dutch Golden Age works outside the Netherlands, including five paintings attributed to Vermeer: A Maid Asleep, Allegory of Faith, Study of a Young Woman, Woman with a Lute, and Young Woman with a Water Pitcher.