The Metropolitan Museum of Art welcomed over 5.7 million visitors to its two locations—The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters—in the fiscal year that ended on June 30, 2025 (FY25).
The Met’s overall attendance grew by 5 percent since FY24, and for the second consecutive year, local visitorship (New York, Connecticut, and New Jersey residents) exceeded pre-pandemic figures—a 109 percent recovery compared to 2019. Local attendance made up 62 percent of all visitors in FY25, while domestic out-of-state visitors accounted for 23 percent. The Museum also tracked its highest single-day attendance since 2017, recording 33,700 visitors during the public opening day for The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing on May 31, 2025.
“We are thrilled by the continued growth of our audiences, particularly across New York City and the surrounding area, with visitors showing incredible enthusiasm for our ambitious programming,” said Max Hollein, The Met’s Marina Kellen French Director and CEO. “Whether through our thought-provoking exhibitions, inventive educational initiatives, or wide-ranging digital offerings, The Met provides an array of ways to engage with our collection spanning 5,000 years of art from across time and around the world.”
Beyond New York City, audiences around the world are engaging with the Museum’s collections and thought-provoking presentations through The Met’s robust traveling exhibition program. Currently on view at the National Palace Museum, Taiwan, From Impressionism to Early Modernism: French Masterpieces from the Robert Lehman Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents 81 paintings from The Met’s collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art, including works by Renoir, Van Gogh, and Cézanne; the display will move to the National Museum of Korea in November. Additionally, exhibitions currently on view at The Met Fifth Avenue will travel around the world following their debut in New York. Sargent and Paris will be on view at the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, starting September 23, 2025, and Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronze, 1100–1900, will be staged at the Shanghai Museum starting November 12; The Met co-organized the exhibitions with both museums. In any given year, nearly 1,700 of The Met’s objects are on loan to institutions around the world to help realize creative and ambitious curatorial projects.