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The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, opens to the public on April 13, 1870, in the Dodworth Building at 681 Fifth Avenue. The Museum acquired its first object, a Roman sarcophagus on November 20 of that same year. In 1871, 174 European paintings, including works by Anthony van Dyck, Nicolas Poussin, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, were added to the collection. More