 | | February 7, 2026–January 26, 2027
The Met Fifth Avenue | Celebrating the Year of the Horse brings together works from The Met collection to explore the horse’s enduring nature and vital place in Chinese civilization. Domesticated in prehistoric times, this animal has shaped nearly every facet of life—from agriculture and transportation to trade, warfare, sport, and entertainment. In Chinese popular culture, horses are among the most celebrated animals, and in the spiritual realm they serve as noble mounts for divine guardians believed to bring joy, protection, and prosperity to the household. This presentation, featuring a range of expressive works in ceramics, glass, jade, metal, and woodblock prints, illuminates these roles while celebrating the horse’s power, vitality, and spirit.
Join us this Saturday for our Lunar New Year Festival: The Year of the Horse, featuring art-making, live performances, and much more. Free with museum admission from noon to 5 pm. | | Learn more → | | Exhibition Highlights |  | | Revolution! | Through August 6, 2026
The Met Fifth Avenue | | | | | | | | See more exhibitions → | | The Met Store |  | | | For more information on the exhibitions, including sponsorship credits, visit Celebrating the Year of the Horse, Witnessing Humanity: The Art of John Wilson, The Brooklyn Bridge Up Close, The Infinite Artistry of Japanese Ceramics, Household Gods: Hindu Devotional Prints, 1860–1930 , Revolution!, The Magical City: George Morrison’s New York, Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, and Raphael: Sublime Poetry.
Lunar New Year Festival: The Year of the Horse is made possible, in part, by Sharon Wee and Tracy Fu.
For a full list of education program funders, please visit metmuseum.org/educationfundingsupport.
Images: Horse (detail), Tang dynasty (618–907), 8th century. Earthenware with brown glaze. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Seymour Fund, 1951 (51.66) | John Wilson (American, 1922–2015). My Brother, 1942. Oil on panel, 12 x 10 5/8 in. (30.48 x 26.9875 cm). Smith College Museum of Art, Purchased, (SC 1943.4.1) Courtesy of the Estate of John Wilson | John A. Roebling, Presentation drawing for the East River Bridge (detail), 1867. Pen, ink, and watercolor on paper. NYC Municipal Archives, no. 149A | Dish with Three Jars. Edo period (1615–1868), 1680–90s. Porcelain with cobalt under and polychrome enamels over a transparent glaze (Hizen ware, Nabeshima type), H. 1 5/8 in. (4.1 cm); Diam. 6 in. (15.2 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Harry G. C. Packard Collection of Asian Art, Gift of Harry G. C. Packard, and Purchase, Fletcher, Rogers, Harris Brisbane Dick, and Louis V. Bell Funds, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, and The Annenberg Fund Inc. Gift, 1975 (1975.268.563) | Subramaniyan with his consorts Valli and Devasena (detail), Ravi Varma Press, c. 1900–1915, Color lithograph, varnish. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Friends of Asian Art, 2021 | Paul Revere Jr. (American, 1734–1818), after Henry Pelham (American, 1749–1806). The Boston Massacre, or, The Bloody Massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston on March 5, 1770 by a party of the 29th Regiment (detail), 1770. Hand-colored engraving and etching; second state. Sheet: 11 in. × 9 9/16 in. (27.9 × 24.3 cm). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of Mrs. Russell Sage, 1910 (10.125.103) | The Antagonist, 1956. Oil on canvas, 34 1/8 x 50 1/16 in. (86.7 x 127.2 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Gift of Mrs. Helen Meredith Norcross. © George Morrison Estate. Photo © Whitney Museum of American Art / Licensed by Scala / Art Resource, NY. | Helene Schjerfbeck (Finnish, 1862–1946). Self-Portrait (detail), 1912. Oil on canvas, 17 1/8 × 16 1/2 in. (43.5 × 42 cm). Finnish National Gallery Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki (A-2016-51). Photo: Finnish National Gallery / Yehia Eweis | Raphael (Raffaello di Giovanni Santi), The Virgin and Child with Infant Saint John the Baptist in a Landscape (The Alba Madonna) (detail), ca. 1509–11. Oil on canvas (transferred from wood). National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.24 | | | |
