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Top 10 Most Interesting Facts About Metropolitan Museum of Art New York

1. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums.

2. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning 5,000 years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe.

3. The Museum is spread over two-million-square foot.

4. The Museum's educational programs are attended annually by approximately 350,000 general Museum visitors, students and teachers.

5. The Metropolitan Museum loans more than 5,000 works of art to other museums throughout the world.

6. The Museums has more than 1,800 employees.

7. There are approximately 900 volunteers at the Museum.

8. The Metropolitan Museum is a not-for-profit institution.

9. A comprehensive architectural plan for the Museum approved in 1971 was completed in 1991.

10. There are 17 curatorial departments.