what piece of art has been at the Met the longest?

a fun fact for your next date at the Met! xoxo

The piece of art that has been at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) the longest is actually an ancient Egyptian artifact—a small wooden figure called the ‘Dwarf Seneb.’

This sculpture was acquired in 1870, the year the Met was founded, as part of its first collection, which consisted of 174 objects, most of which were antiquities and historical artifacts.