Straight away at the entrance to the galleries we are met with a confrontation between the conservative and the modern the indigenous and the foreign. The complex of buildings at its present location in Central Park opened in 1880. The Metropolitan Museum of Art was founded on April 13 1870 to be located in the City of New York for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects and to that end of furnishing popular instruction.
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