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en-wikipedia-org-3099		Metropolitan Museum of Art - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	17779	2024	70	The Met maintains extensive holdings of African, Asian, Oceanian, Byzantine, and Islamic art.[13] The museum is also home to encyclopedic collections of musical instruments, costumes and accessories, and antique weapons and armor from around the world.[14] A great number of period rooms, ranging from first-century Rome through modern American design, are permanently installed in the Met's galleries.[15] In addition to its permanent exhibitions, the Met organizes and hosts large traveling shows throughout the year. The New York State Legislature granted the Metropolitan Museum of Art an Act of Incorporation on April 13, 1870, "for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said City a Museum and Library of Art, of encouraging and developing the Study of the Fine Arts, and the application of Art to manufacture and natural life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and to that end of furnishing popular instruction and recreations."[95] This legislation was supplemented later by the 1893 Act, Chapter 476, which required that its collections "shall be kept open and accessible to the public free of all charge throughout the year."[96] The founders included businessmen and financiers, as well as leading artists and thinkers of the day, who wanted to open a museum to bring art and art education to the American people.[4]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-3099.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-3099.txt