大都会艺术博物馆(Metropolitan Museum of Art)是美国藏品最为丰富的博物馆之一,国内对其了解,主要因为它的中国艺术品收藏在欧美博物馆中首屈一指。然而,作为全球性的博物馆,它收藏了世界各地不同文化的大量艺术品,西方艺术在其中占主导。近年来,大都会艺术博物馆与中国博物馆之间的交流日益频繁,2012年,它同其他三家美国 The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the most extensively-preserved museums in the United States, and is well known in the country mainly because its collection of Chinese works of art is second to none in European and American museums. However, as a global museum, it houses a large collection of works of art from different cultures around the world, in which Western art dominates. In recent years, the exchange between the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Chinese Museum has become increasingly frequent, and in 2012 it, along with the other three United States