Feeling like a criminal at the MET Museum

I had the awesome opportunity to go to the Met museum with my fellow classmates, Halina and Ahmed, last Friday on September 16. By the time we got there, it was almost closing time (the sky was dark outside) and the entire museum was incredibly empty.

It was such a strange experience to say the least… I felt incredibly out of place, especially with the security guards spread out everywhere. Apparently, they’ve had their own fair share of thieves at the museum and a few had to remind us to wear our backpacks in front of our bodies (which made me feel like a criminal)… But I thoroughly enjoyed waddling through the exhibits for the hour we were there.

But I digress, all that’s important was that there were very little people in the museum at the time. We got to visit the Egyptian exhibit (see pictures below), the Greek exhibit, the Asian exhibit, and we kind of walked through the “American” Exhibit/hallway because there really was nothing there to see apart from some paintings.

There was something almost ethereal about going to the museum late at night when no one is there (apart from the security guards). The exhibits were lit with artificial lighting and we were able to admire the excessively detailed feet of the Greek statues without tourist shoving us to the side to get a better look. We got to race up a large set of stairs (which I’m sure is against some form of rule, but no one/nothing got hurt except for my pride). And also, there were absolutely no crying or screaming children.

So my lesson to my lovely readers is to go to the MET late at night, get in by donation (seriously, you could get in by donating a penny although I didn’t do that because I have a conscience…I donated a dollar), go with friends, and then chill out at Central Park afterwards because NYC is beautiful.