In 1957, the gathering was also displayed within the United States at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and within the Toledo Museum of Art. The following 12 months, the holdings of MASP were exhibited at different Brazilian venues, such because the Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, in Rio de Janeiro. The museum’s collections of Egyptian and Roman art, and Pre-Columbian works, have been relocated to the Penn Museum after an trade great site agreement was made whereby the museum homes the college’s collection of Chinese porcelain. Extensive renovation of the constructing lasted from the 1960s through 1976. Major acquisitions included the Carroll S. Tyson, Jr. and Samuel S. White III and Vera White collections, 71 objects from designer Elsa Schiaparelli, and Marcel Duchamp’s Étant donnés.
As a token of its appreciation the name Qatar Gallery was adopted for the museum’s Gallery of the Umayyad and Abbasid Periods. This followed the announcement that the Met and Qatar Museums had entered into a partnership to foster their change with regards to exhibitions, activities, and scholarly cooperation. In 2018, the museum constructed an exhibition around the golden-sheathed 1st-century BCE coffin of Nedjemankh, a high-ranking priest of the ram-headed god Heryshaf of Heracleopolis. Investigators determined that the artifact had been stolen in 2011 from Egypt, and the museum returned it. In December 2021, the Met started its $70 million (~$77.7 million in 2023) renovation of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing’s African, ancient American, and Oceanic art galleries, initially deliberate to begin in 2020 but now set for completion in 2024. The forty,000 square-feet renovation includes the reinstallation of an exterior glass curtain, which had deteriorated, in addition to the galleries of their entirety, which house three,000 works.
