It’s easy to forget that we live near one of the great museums in the world what with our busy lives in Brooklyn.

But in the last few months I’ve been spending more time at the Met. Yesterday a friend, an ex-Park Sloper and I, walked around the museum for a few hours. There is, as always, so much to see. I strongly suggest a visit. Saturday night the museum is open until 8:30. Here’s what we saw:

The newly expanded and renovated gallery for 19th and early 20th century paintings is just filled with great work from Prud’hon to Picasso, by way of Delacroix, Corot, Courbet, Manet, Monet, Degas, Cézanne, Seurat and others.

The Age of Rembrandt is a knock out exhibition of the Metropolitan Museum’s 228 Dutch paintings (dating mostly from the 1600s).

Tapestry in the Baroque: Threads of Splendor is an amazing survey of 17th-century European tapestry, a large show, is also quite incredible.

My favorite space in the museum right now is the Greek and Roman sculpture gallery that is in the space where the old cafeteria used to be. It is a glorious space to be in. The sculpture. The light. The feeling of the room.

ENJOY!