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The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its slate of exhibition programming upto June 2026. The upcoming exhibition season features over a dozen new displays, including the first comprehensive US presentation of works by Raphael, the spring Costume Institute exhibition which inaugurates a new suite of galleries, and the first major exhibition to explore the relationship between musical instruments and the body.
Highlights of the season include (through June 26), the first comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States on Renaissance master Raphael, widely considered to be one of the greatest artists of all time. The exhibition brings together more than 200 of the artist’s greatest masterpieces and rarely seen treasures to offer a fresh perspective on this defining figure of the Italian Renaissance, presenting his renowned masterpieces alongside rarely seen treasures to reveal an extraordinarily creative mind.
In May, The Met will stage Costume Art (opening on May 10) the spring Costume Institute exhibition which will examine the centrality of the dressed body, juxtaposing objects from across the Museum’s vast collection with historical and contemporary garments and will be the first exhibition in The Met’s new nearly 12,000-square-foot Galleries adjacent to the Great Hall. Come June, Musical Bodies (opening June 7) will be the first major exhibition to explore the multifaceted relationship between musical instruments and the human body, bringing together some 120 works from around the world and across time, including musical instruments, paintings, sculptures and drawings from The Met collection along with important domestic and international loans.
The Museum also announced a new season of scheduled festivals and programmes, including the 12th edition of the annual Teens Take The Met! on May 15, 2026.
