Metropolitan Museum of Art vs. American Museum of Natural History: Which Is Bigger?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art (The Met) is larger in total floor area.

• The Met: ~2 million square feet (186,000 m²) of exhibition and gallery space.
• American Museum of Natural History (AMNH): ~1.5 million square feet (139,000 m²).

Both are among the world's largest museums, located in New York City (The Met on Fifth Avenue; AMNH on the Upper West Side). The Met's vast collections span 5,000 years of global art; AMNH focuses on natural science, anthropology, and paleontology across 45 permanent halls plus the Rose Center for Earth and Space.