The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced its exhibition programming till June 2026. The upcoming exhibition season features over a dozen new displays, including the presentation of works by Raphael.
Highlights of the season include, a comprehensive, international loan exhibition in the United States on Renaissance artist Raphael.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 June, Musical Bodies (opening on June 7th) 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.
Flip Sides: Seeing Korean Art Anew (till May 31, 2027) shall be a display which will offer multiple views of the inside, reverse, or hard-to-see aspects of treasured Korean objects in a variety of mediums, to give us a fuller picture into each object’s unique form.
Gothic by Design: The Dawn of Architectural Draftsmanship (opening on April 16th) shall be an exhibition to examine Gothic architectural drawings in an art historical context, illuminating the significant impact the practice of drawing had on stylistic developments in Europe between the 13th and 16th century.
Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas (opening on May 18th, 2026 at The Met Cloisters) will bring art of the ancient Americas to The Met Cloisters for the first time to explore depictions of fantastic, hybrid beings in the visual arts over the course of a millennium, illuminating the parallel but independent traditions of Europe and the Americas between 500 and 1500 CE.
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 15th, 2026.
