The Met was set up not as a museum of American art, but of an encyclopedic museum, and today, 140 years later, that vision is as prescient as ever, because, of course, we live in a world of crisis, of challenge, and we're exposed to it through the 24/7 newsreels.
成立大都会博物馆的目的不只是为了美国艺术， 而应是成为一个百科全书式的博物馆， 今天，博物馆已经成立140多年 ，这一初衷 是多么的有先见之明， 因为，我们生活的世界充满危机和挑战， 我们通过日以继夜的新闻汇编 来接触它们。