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New York's Metropolitan Museum Of Art Will Open Its Doors Again In Late August

The country's largest art museum will be open to the public five days a week starting at the end of August. It had been closed since March as New York City grappled with the coronavirus pandemic.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City has been closed since mid-March, but will be open to visitors five days a week starting in August.

New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art will reopen its Fifth Avenue location five days a week beginning Aug. 29, with "comprehensive" new health and safety procedures in place.

The country's largest art museum closed on March 13, Met officials said it had not been closed for longer than three days in more than a century before then.

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