Audio Guide

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Current Exhibitions

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Hear about the provocative history of porcelain with Michelle Zauner, frontwoman of Japanese Breakfast, as your guide.
Through August 17
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Celebrate the cultural achievements of African artists and innovators.
Ongoing
Bright gallery with white pedestals showcasing a variety of stone statues and objects in glass cases.
Explore the enduring legacies of the arts of the ancient Americas.
Ongoing
Tall ancestor poles arranged in a curve in the center of a bright white gallery space.
Listen to stories of identity and power in the art forms and knowledge of the Pacific.
Ongoing

Featured Audio

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Explore Museum highlights at The Met Fifth Ave.
Sunny day at the Bonnefont Cloister Herb Garden at The Met Cloisters
Hear more about the museum highlights at The Met Cloisters.
Ancient Cycladic marble head sculpture with minimal facial features on a blue background, displaying simplicity and elegance. Text reads "Cycladic Art."
Listen as archaeologists discuss the objects on display in their cultural context, including fertility rites, the practice of oracles, and navigating at sea.
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Hear contemporary artists describe the challenge and joy of working with different types of wood, plus reflections from a former Met intern on teenage apprentices in furniture workshops.
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New perspectives on a single work from The Met collection each month.

Tour the Collection

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Art of Native America
This audio guide highlights the traditions and techniques on display in the collection of Native American art.
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Behind every artwork in the American Wing are often surprising stories of identity, time, and place. Hear historians, artists, poets, and community leaders from diverse backgrounds offer perspectives on various works.
Two young children stand in front of the entrance of a stone Egyptian temple. The child on the right is pointing up to the structure.
Take the kids' tour of the Egyptian Art galleries.
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Hear the sounds of the Musical Instruments on display in the Fanfare gallery.
This audio playlist explores the impact of geography on musical culture.
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Hear curators, conservators, and contemporary artists uncover the surprising stories and politics behind British art, craftsmanship, and consumerism.
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Hear unique viewpoints from curators, educators, musicians, an American Sign Language user, and more.

Past Exhibitions

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Close up of painting of a lady's shoulder and dress stadning in the front of a tan background.
Listen to fresh perspectives on Sargent’s early years in Paris.
Man holding a living Rooster, again a red backdrop
Listen to fresh perspectives on early American photography.
Painting of two standing together, looking at the moon before a leaning tree.
Hear new perspectives on Friedrich’s life and work.
“Woman in Blue” by William H. Johnson
Hear artists and scholars reflect on key works in the exhibition
Mosaic in the shape of a map with a title in yellow that reads "Africa & Byzantium"
Hear experts illuminate northern Africa’s key role in the Roman and Byzantine worlds.
Photo collage of two paintings, with the words Manet/Degas overlaid on top; Left of boy wearing pink shirt and hat sitting on a red couch with a dessert; Right: Two people wearing tan and black sitting at a table against a tan wall.
Explore the legacy of Manet and Degas's complicated relationship.
Tree and Serpent: Early Buddhist Art in India, 200 BCE-400CE
Unpack the symbolism and stories of early Buddhist art
Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter
Hear scholars of Afro-Hispanic life in seventeenth-century Spain discuss the career and legacy of Juan de Pareja
Lives of the Gods Divinity in Maya Art
Learn about the mythical lives of the ancient Mayan gods.
Listen to artists, historians, and an archeologist discuss the work of David Drake and other enslaved potters from Edgefield.
The Tudors Art and Majesty in Renaissance England
Hear about the portraits of some of the most famous Tudor figures alongside the superb decorative arts of this period.
This audio guide highlights works by the American artist Winslow Homer.
Title card for exhibition "Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts" featuring an ornate, pink dome structure with a dark blue background. .
Hear an insider’s perspective from Angela Lansbury and others who made the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.
Hear from a dynamic cast of artists, curators, donors, and other key figures in this tour narrated by Steve Martin.
In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met
The Audio Guide for this exhibition explores the enduring appeal of Dutch paintings of the seventeenth century. Hear from experts in diverse fields about how these artworks inspire them.
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