To fully explore the Metropolitan Museum of Art would require many years, if not a lifetime. The Met’s campus on Manhattan’s Upper East Side measures 2.1 million square feet, distributed across some 21 buildings. That’s not to mention the art itself, which numbers in the tens of thousands of objects, spanning painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and the decorative arts. The European Painting galleries alone hold hundreds of works, many of which were temporarily removed when the replacement of the skylights above wings A, B, and C began. The $150 million effort, led by Beyer Blinder Belle (BBB), transformed the museum’s oldest architectural constructions.
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