The Metropolitan is one of the greatest museums in the world, and it has borrowed many works of art that are among the finest of their eras from the museums of other countries. The Mona Lisa from the Louvre, "Treasures of the Hermitage" from the Russian Winter Palace Museum and "Treasures of the Vatican" have all been shown at the Met.
大都會博物館為世界首屈一指之大博物館，大都會博物館所借自其他國家之展品皆為一時之選的精品，如羅浮宮博物館的蒙娜麗莎，俄國冬宮賀米特吉珍藏，梵蒂岡博物館珍藏精品，皆曾在大都會博物館展出過。