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Google Doodle Honors Metropolitan Museum of Art on Its 151st Anniversary
On 4/13/21 at 4:24 AM EDT
Today s Google Doodle celebrates the 151st anniversary of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, one of the world s largest and most notable art museums.
The Doodle features a cartoon ground plan of the famous Central Park building, along with rotating gifs depicting some of the contents of the collections held within.
The museum, often called simply The Met , was founded in 1870 by a group of American citizens businessmen and financiers as well as leading artists of the day who wanted to create a museum to bring art and art education to Americans.