My Unforgettable Experience at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

When I was in the CUNY Language Immersion Program I had the opportunity to visit some museums in New York City. One of them was the Metropolitan Museum of Art located at 1000 Fifth Ave New York, NY. The Metropolitan is a very huge museum that has collected arts from all over the world (The Met). It has a big variety of exhibition for all type of visitors (The Met). It is a museum that satisfies everyone’s expectations. The entire family can go there because it has something special and educative for everyone (The Met). It was the first museum that totally caught my attention since I did not like museum so much. That evening I spent in The Met was full of different kind of emotions.

As a student, my mission there was to pretend that I was traveling around the world in 90 minutes. Indeed, I really felt like a person who has an international visa and can travel around the world. I went from country to country in each continent, however I could not travel as much as I wanted because the time was not enough. My classmate and I ran excitedly from one gallery to the other one, trying to learn about the different art each country or continent has, and everything we saw was amazing. I wanted to spend more time staring at the sculptures, decorations and other interesting artifacts that can be find in The Met.  

Most of the things I saw were weird. Thus, they were interesting and made me feel curious. I found that everything there has a unique message, and I could feel inside myself the mystery behind of most of them. Besides following the meaning of the artworks, it was the first time I have seen so many treasures in just one place. I wished I could have some of them to become rich. I saw many things made with gold, emeralds and diamonds. Moreover, there were some paintings in the second floor that I could connect to myself because they reminded me of my beautiful countryside in the Dominican Republic. There were about mountains, flowers, rivers and birds. Contemplating those paintings about nature made me feel so relaxed.    

I used to think that museums were boring, but the Metropolitan Museum changed my mind about that. Whenever I visit a museum, I find the special mission of them. The experience I had at the Metropolitan Museum will stay with me forever because it was the first museum that made me feel like a little child who just wanted to have fun. I was so happy, excited, curious, and impressed by the wonderful things in the Metropolitan Museum.

Work Cited

“The MET.” Metmuseum.org. http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/history. ND. Web. September 20. 2017.