The Quiz: What is the biggest museum on New York’s ‘Museum Mile’?
A Metropolitan Museum of Art
B American Museum of Natural History
C Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, informally known as the Met, is one of the most famous art museums in the world as well as one of the largest. Its vast collection includes classical antiquities, sculptures by almost all the European masters, and pieces from every part of the world spanning millennia. It even displays a reconstructed Egyptian temple.
The Met anchors Museum Mile, a 22-block stretch of Fifth Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side that is home to eight museums. Today, all of them will open their doors for free and participate in the Museum Mile Festival, a celebration of art with extended hours and special events.
The correct answer to this quiz is Metropolitan Museum of Art.