Audio Guide

Hear stories about artworks from many perspectives including artists, curators, and more

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Current Exhibitions

Promotional graphic for the exhibition, "Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter"

Juan de Pareja, Afro-Hispanic Painter

April 3 – July 16, 2023
The Met Fifth Avenue

Featured Audio

View of the façade and front steps of The Met Fifth Avenue

100 Highlights Tour

The Met Fifth Avenue
The text “Spotlight One Met Icon New Perspectives” appears atop a bright yellow ovular spotlight shape against a warm grey background.

Spotlight

New perspectives on a single work from The Met collection each month.

Tour the Collection

Two young children stand in front of the entrance of a stone Egyptian temple. The child on the right is pointing up to the structure.

Egyptian Art: Family Tour

The Met Fifth Avenue
Promotional image for The Met's British Galleries, featuring an array of teapots.

The British Galleries

The Met Fifth Avenue

Musical Instruments: Fanfare

The Met Fifth Avenue
Detail view of a marble sculpture in which we see a hand grasping another piece of flesh

Viewpoints: Body Language

The Met Fifth Avenue
Jackson Pollock's monumental drip painting Number 28, 1950

Past Exhibitions

Jean-Baptise Carpeaux's "Why Born Enslaved!" with the text "Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast"

Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina

Listen to artists, historians, and an archeologist discuss the work of David Drake and other enslaved potters from Edgefield.
Painted portrait of Elizabeth I with the text "The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England"

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

Hear about the portraits of some of the most famous Tudor figures alongside the superb decorative arts of this period.
Painting of a dark-skinned man laying down on a damaged rudderless fishing boat holding on to a few stalks of sugarcane and looking out to the right side of the painting. The boat is surrounded by sharks, turbulent waters and a distant waterspout. Over the painting, the text reads, "Winslow Homer Crosscurrents."

Winslow Homer Crosscurrents

This audio guide highlights works by the American artist Winslow Homer.
Promotional image for "Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts" showing a detail of an ornately decorated ceramic building model with a pink roof.

Inspiring Walt Disney: The Animation of French Decorative Arts

Hear an insider’s perspective from Angela Lansbury and others who made the Disney classic Beauty and the Beast.
Portrait of two men: the one on the right dons a green sweater, a receding hairline, glasses, and stubble, while the other has an unbuttoned red plaid shirt, a mustache, his chin resting on his hand in a thoughtfol pose.

Alice Neel: People Come First

This audio guide features the celebrated painter Alice Neel speaking about her life, inspiration, and “radical humanism.”
Jackson Pollock's monumental drip painting Number 28, 1950
Architect Marcel Breuer in the window of The Met Breuer with the text "Met Breuer Architecture Tour"

The Met Breuer Architecture Tour

Discover more about this iconic building, its remarkable history, and its architect, Marcel Breuer.
Archival B&W photo of 19th century girls looking at the painting of George Washington Crossing the Delaware, transitioning to a color photograph of a group of modern people looking at the same painting.

Making The Met, 1870–2020

Hear from a dynamic cast of artists, curators, donors, and other key figures in this tour narrated by Steve Martin.