Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met returns looted Sumerian and Babylonian artifacts to Iraq

New evidence from a probe into British antiquities dealer Robin Symes confirmed the pieces were trafficked and rightfully belong to Iraq.

Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.
Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.

New York's The Met museum to return ancient artifacts to Yemen

Visitors walk along the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, March 6, 2006.

21 stolen artifacts seized from New York's Met in smuggling probe

 THE MAIN entrance of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA).

NY museums scramble to acknowledge Nazi-looted art


Sackler name to be removed from Met Museum galleries amid criticism

The medical school of Tel Aviv University also bears the Sackler name; officials there have resisted calls to remove the name of the school’s benefactors.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

The MET – behind the scenes

Just beyond the museum’s worn paths, daily rituals may be something unimaginable

 THE METROPOLITAN Museum of Art in New York City, seen last month.

Metropolitan Museum of Art fixes label on Jewish phylacteries

The label described the Tefilin as a 6th-Century amulet from Egypt.

Pair of tefilin with black straps with blue kippah on white wooden background. (illustrative)

Met Museum mislabels Jewish phylacteries as 6th-century Egyptian amulet

The tefillin acquired by the museum is kept in the Islamic Art department.

  A Jewish worshipper wears Tefillin as he prays at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City March 8, 2012. Tefillin, leather straps and boxes containing sacred parchments, are worn by Orthodox Jewish men during morning prayer