Met Breuer
Defunct art museum in New York City / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Met Breuer (/ˈbrɔɪ.ər/ BROY-ər)[1] was a museum of modern and contemporary art at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as a branch museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (known as the Met) from 2016 to 2020.
Established | March 18, 2016 (2016-03-18) |
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Dissolved |
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Location | 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10021 |
Type | Art museum |
Public transit access | Subway: at 77th Street Bus: M1, M2, M3, M4, M79 SBS |
Website | metmuseum |
The Met Breuer opened in March 2016 in the Breuer Building formerly occupied by the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Marcel Breuer and completed in 1966.[2] Its works came from the Met's collection, and it housed both monographic and thematic exhibitions.[3]
In March 2020, the museum announced it would temporarily close due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Three months later, in June, the Met announced that the museum would close permanently.[4][5] Control of the building was transferred to the Frick Collection for its use during renovations to the Frick's main building, an arrangement which predated the COVID outbreak.[6][7]