In my eighteen years of living in New York City, the MET has been the museum that I have visited the most. In Middle School, school trips to the MET would common and I probably went three to four times a school year. Back then I was a child and didn’t really understand how I would benefit from a museum, and since Middle School I haven’t visited the MET more than once compared to the ten or so times I visited in a span of three years. The one time I did visit was during my sophomore year in High School, and not because I wanted to but because I had family over that wanted to and I was essentially forced to go. But I actually enjoyed it a bit that time, not like all the other times in Middle School. I always thought that I had seen it all and that’s why I found the MET boring but I was only using that as an excuse, which is why I chose and wanted to go to the MET this Thursday for this blog.

I went with my friend Rafal, who at first didn’t believe me that the admission tickets to get in were a penny because they were donation based. So he ended up paying a dollar for the ticket, but a dollar is still so little when compared to what the MET offers. As an extremely vast place we weren’t able to explore all of it, or most of it since we still had to get to get to English class later. But just the amount of sculptures that we first say upon entering was amazing. Many were broken, probably through wear and tear over hundreds and thousands of years which was crazy to imagine that I was staring at something created thousands of years ago. I consider myself to be a bit of a History buff, buff the art area of history was never really something I enjoyed, however going to the MET and reading about different sculptures and paintings was a lot of information. Especially the sculptures we saw at the start, many seemed and actually were from the Ancient Greek and Romand times, but while that was my guess you could have just as easily read about them and found an accurate date of when they were created. Now I know that a museum is another way to learn about history other than history class.