Metropolitan Museum Guided Tour: Art Highlights
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576 Ratings
New York
Discover the highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art on this 3-hour guided tour. Explore a vast collection of art, jewelry, relics, and architecture with a knowledgeable guide.
Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Walks - An expert guide will lead you through 5,000 years of art, from Ancient Egypt to modern America, in just 3 hours
  • Central Park - Enjoy an iconic museum on miracle mile
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art tour with an informative guide
What's Included
  • Small groups of only 15 people or fewer
  • Local guide
What's Not Included
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Food and drinks
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, also known as the Met, is one of the top art museums in the world. Its extensive collection is so large that it could take several days to explore fully. However, this 3-hour guided tour is designed to show you the museum’s most significant pieces. You will have the opportunity to examine a wide variety of art, jewelry, ancient artifacts, and architectural marvels under the guidance of a knowledgeable tour guide. To ensure a personalized experience, the tour is limited to a small group of just 10 people.

  • Some pieces of art may not be accessible depending on the rotation of exhibits
  • Rooftop garden is only accessible May through October, weather permitting. Available only for the 3-hour option.
  • No flash photography or selfie sticks are permitted
  • Museum is wheelchair accessible; if you cannot access the front entrance via the stairs, there is a ground-level entrance one block south (81st Street and 5th Avenue); the desk there will give you temporary pass and allow you to take the elevator to meet your group in the main lobby
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
5th Avenue
1000 5th Ave (The Metropolitan Museum of Art) Meet in the main lobby to the right of the information desk in front of the large seated Pharaoh. Your guide will be holding a Walks sign.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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L
Jun 23, 2024
Charlie, our tour guide at the Metropolitan Museum - Charlie, our tour guide at the metropolitan museum, gave us a wonderful and historically informative tour today. His humor and facts kept the well paced tour interesting.
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Ivana_m
Jun 23, 2024
Lara - Great tour, we loved our tour guide Katie, she is very enthusiastic and funny and has great knowledge
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Tim
Jun 23, 2024
Great your with Charlie - Charlie our guide was very informative & super enthusiastic . He brought the artwork to life by detailing aspects we would not have picked up ourselves
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Rebeccao61
Jun 23, 2024
Historical perspective enhanced - Liked his personalizing the artists and eras to help us understand the historic environment and even political agendas during the ages.
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Scenic19701123254
Jun 23, 2024
Tour with a side of history and humor! - Charlie led an amazing tour to help us see the best bits of The Met. It was amazing to see so much in such a little time. Great history, fun questions to the groups to help us train our artistic eyes and good energy. Highly recommend if you have limited time to be in the museum.
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L8562jealexanders
Jun 20, 2024
Great museum tour! - Charlie was a great guide. Very knowledgeable and entertaining and very engaging. Took an interactive approach too to showing us insights
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William_t
Jun 15, 2024
3 hours of great education and entertainment - We signed up for 3 hour tour for up to 15 people .. only 7 started and then 2 more caught up later . We mentioned to the Frenchman guide when asked what we’d like to see .. Peter paul Rueben’s , Monet, suits of armor , Vincent Van Gogh. He covered those and more. He seemed very enthusiastic, excited to share the Met tour, he went out of his way to explain how things were made , paint brush, rag, palette tool. All the little stories and backgrounds about paintings, Egypt, Greek, Roman, statues, carvings, reasons behind the works.. it was beyond educational. He must have been an art history college professor or something. What a great guy the tourguide was , he went over the 3 hours as he was so excited showing and explaining everything .. we tipped him well as he was way beyond expectations , thank you !
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Nativeorleanian
Jun 12, 2024
Wonderful, well paced experience - Wonderful tour. Our guide Charlie was both knowledgeable and engaging. He kept a steady pace and explained many things along the way. Charlie managed to pull everyone into discussing many pieces. The tour was perfect and I highly recommend it to others. It was a three-hour tour so be sure to wear comfortable shoes!
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Mala_p
Jun 23, 2024
Enjoyable tour - Really enjoyed the tour, thought we covered everything I would want to see. Whilst I was ok with the length of the tour 3 hours is a long time so we had a couple of people leave around 2 hours in. Guide was very knowledgeable albeit slightly awkward humour, maybe because I’m a Brit and I didn’t get it?! 🤷🏽‍♀️
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Tim_h
Jun 19, 2024
Would recommend - Ryan was very knowledgeable and polite. Instructions could be more clear on getting assembled, but that was not the fault of the particular guide. Recommend to all and any who wish. The roof top access is a must!
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