The Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) is located in New York City. It is the largest art museum in the United States, and it is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million art works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the Eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan’s Museum Mile, is by area one of the world’s largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.

The permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art consists of works of art from classical antiquity and ancient Egypt, painting and sculptures from nearly all the European masters, and an extensive collection of American and modern art. This museum maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, Indian and Islamic art. The museum is home to encyclopedic collections of musical, costumes and accessories, as well as antique weapons and armor from around the world. Several notable interiors, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are installed in its galleries.

Prepositions of place are used to show the position or location of one thing with another.

They answer the question Where?

Example: Where is my coat? It is on the sofa.

Where is the sofa? It is next to the window, by the living room.

The most common Prepositions of place are:

Preposition	Examples:
in	The keys are in the box.
On	The box is on the table
In front of	The table is in front of the sofa.
Behind	The window is behind the sofa.
Next to	The sofa is next to the door.
Near	The door is near the bookcase.
By	The piano is by the window.
Between	The coffee table is between the armchair and the sofa.
Opposite	The sofa is opposite the TV.
under	The DVD is under the TV.