The Works of Art Index is comprised of the nearly 6,000 works featured on the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History and does not include all of the works in The Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. This index does not include information about the subject matter of the works of art. For queries concerning content and broader themes in art history, please consult the Subject, Artist, or Thematic Essay indexes.
Department
Browse by the respective departments of the Museum (i.e., Ancient Near Eastern Art or Photographs).
Accession Number
Browse by each work of art's unique accession number. Each work in the Museum's collection is assigned a unique accession number by which it is catalogued and identified. This number is composed of the year the work was acquired, followed by further numbers and sometimes letters (i.e., 2004.442 or 2003.382a–c).
