The Met Gala (Historical Event) (The annual star-studded benefit for the Costume Institute, founded in 1948)

The Temple of Dendur (Egyptian Antiquity) (An authentic Roman-Egyptian temple gifted by Egypt to the US, installed in 1978)

Vincent van Gogh (Artist) (Self-Portrait with a Straw Hat, 1887)

Johannes Vermeer (Artist) (Young Woman with a Water Pitcher, the first Vermeer to enter an American collection)

Duccio di Buoninsegna (Madonna and Child) (Sparsely surviving masterwork acquired for an estimated $45M in 2004)

Emanuel Leutze (Washington Crossing the Delaware) (Monumental historic 1851 oil painting anchoring the American Wing)

Joan of Arc by Jules Bastien-Lepage (Painting) (Acquired in 1889; a historic cornerstone of French academic realism)

Katsushika Hokusai (Under the Wave off Kanagawa) (Rare, pristine impressions of the iconic woodblock print)

Pablo Picasso (Portrait of Gertrude Stein) (The avant-garde writer’s historic 1906 portrait gifted to the museum)

Jackson Pollock (Autumn Rhythm: Number 30) (Monumental Abstract Expressionist masterpiece purchased in 1957)

Rembrandt van Rijn (Aristotle with a Bust of Homer) (Acquired in 1961 for a then-record breaking $2.3M)

The Unicorn Tapestries (Medieval Art) (A world-famous series of seven tapestries permanently housed at The Met Cloisters)

Michelangelo Buonarroti (The Creative Process) (The record-shattering 2017 master draftsman exhibition drawing over 700,000 visitors)

Alexander McQueen (Savage Beauty) (The historic 2011 Costume Institute retrospective ranking among the most visited in museum history)

Jacqueline Kennedy (Celebrity) (Instrumental behind bringing the historic Mona Lisa exhibition to the museum in 1963)

Princess Diana (Celebrity Visitor) (Attended the 1996 Met Gala wearing a landmark John Galliano slip dress)

Robert Mapplethorpe (Photography) (The pivotal and provocative 1988 solo traveling exhibition format)

Auguste Rodin (Sculpture) (A comprehensive gallery of bronze master casts, donated directly by the artist and patrons)

Claude Monet (Water Lilies) (The extensive Impressionist holdings anchored inside the nineteenth-century European wings)

Caravaggio (The Musicians) (An early, rare Baroque musical allegory painting)

Henri Matisse (The Young Sailor II) (The legendary fauvism dynamic canvas)

The Antioch Chalice (Byzantine Art) (Early Christian silver treasure on long-term historical view)

Georgia O’Keeffe (Black Iris) (Seminal American modernist painting added via the Alfred Stieglitz collection gift)

Edgar Degas (The Little Fourteen-Year-Old Dancer) (The iconic mixed-media bronze sculpture holding court in the European galleries)

Richard Morris Hunt (Architect) (The designer responsible for the grand Great Hall and main facade opened in 1902)