Inside the Met’s Renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, Which Is Set to Open May 2025
The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently offered a preview of its renovated Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, taking journalists on a tour of the new space, set to open next May.
The new space is designed to be much brighter, easier to navigate and encourage visitors to flow from the museum’s adjacent galleries for modern and contemporary art, as well as Greek and Roman art.
The Rockefeller art collection was transferred to the Met in 1969 and the wing first opened in 1982, designed by the architects at Kevin Roche John Dinkeloo and Associates. In 2016, architect Kulapat Yantrasast of the firm wHY was chosen to redesign the Rockefeller Wing’s 40,000-square-foot interior.