Metropolitan Museum of Art Highlights Guided Tour with Tickets New York

Why the Metropolitan Museum of Art belongs on every New York itinerary

Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum of Art on the edge of Central Park is the largest art museum in the United States, with a collection spanning more than 5,000 years of world art. This two-hour express tour picks out the essential highlights with an English-speaking guide in a small group of no more than fifteen, so you see the best of a museum that could take days to explore alone. The route includes the Temple of Dendur, an Egyptian temple from around 15 BC rebuilt in its own glass-walled hall, Egyptian mummies and tombs, Greek statues, the Tiffany loggia and masterpieces by Van Gogh, Monet and Rodin.

A ticket booked in advance changes the visit. Instead of queueing at the desk and taking whatever slot is left, you arrive at the time you reserved, go straight to the entrance for pre-booked visitors and spend your energy inside. Haqqi Tours books that slot for you and confirms it on WhatsApp.

What is included

• English-speaking guide, small group of up to 15 for the whole visit
• Guided highlights tour with museum admission
• Reserved, dated entry in your name
• Written confirmation on WhatsApp and one Haqqi Tours contact throughout

Not included: meals and drinks, transport to the meeting point, tips and guided tours unless stated.

Who this is for

First-time visitors to New York should book this before anything else - it is the overview that makes the rest of the trip make sense. Returning visitors book it for the parts they missed. Children aged 2–14 travel at the child rate.

Best time to visit New York

Spring and autumn are the pleasant seasons, summer is hot and humid, and winter cold with occasional snow; the Van Wyck Expressway from JFK and the tunnels into Manhattan are slowest on weekday evenings.

For this ticket specifically, the first slot of the day is the quietest and the last the most atmospheric.

Getting around New York

The AirTrain from JFK connects to the subway and Long Island Rail Road, and Newark has its own AirTrain to NJ Transit; both mean stairs, changes and crowds with luggage, and LaGuardia has only buses, so a car at the terminal door is the calm choice at any hour.

Ask us to line up your transfer or a driver for the rest of the day when you book - one conversation, one confirmation.

More to see in New York

Before or after, most visitors add the Statue of Liberty and Ellis Island, Central Park, the Empire State Building and Top of the Rock, Times Square and the Brooklyn Bridge. The areas worth knowing are Long Island City in Queens, Harlem, Jersey City across the river and Midtown and Times Square.

Where to eat before and after

Food is part of the day in New York: a bagel with lox for breakfast, a New York slice of pizza, pastrami on rye at a deli and dim sum in Chinatown. There is time built into the ticket for a break, and the guide will point you to the honest places rather than the tourist ones.

A practical tip from our New York team

Tell us which of the three airports and which terminal - JFK alone has six - and the hotel's full street address, since Manhattan hotel names repeat across the city.

Specific to this ticket: Maximum 15; walking tour; galleries may close without notice; museum closed Wednesdays.

Before you go: a short checklist

• Your Haqqi Tours confirmation on your phone, with the time slot and entrance
• An ID for each guest that matches the names on the booking
• A small bag only - large bags are refused or checked at the entrance
• The children's ages (child rate 2–14) - the attraction may ask
• Arrive ten minutes early; the group does not wait
• Our WhatsApp number saved - one message reaches the team on the day

Prices, children and how the booking panel works

The booking panel on this page shows the adult rate and, where the ticket has one, the child rate, in the currency we sell it in. Children aged 2–14 take the child rate; infants below that age are usually free where the ticket allows a lap seat, and we confirm it case by case. The figure on the panel is the whole price - no service charge, no payment fee, nothing added on the day.

Entry is per person and per time slot; a group of any size can book together as long as the slot has space, which is why we ask for the date first.

Why book it with Haqqi Tours

• We confirm in writing before you pay - date, time, meeting point, price
• Support in English and Arabic on WhatsApp from booking to the end of the day
• One contact for the rest of the trip: New York transfers, other tours, tickets, trains, flights and ferries
• Our own team has checked every product on this page; nothing is listed we would not book ourselves
• Card and Apple Pay accepted; the price on the page is the price you pay

Combine it with

A good pairing is an arrival transfer from the airport, this ticket on the first full day and the rest of New York on the days after; we can hold the whole plan on one WhatsApp thread.

Coming in from the airport? The AirTrain from JFK connects to the subway and Long Island Rail Road, and Newark has its own AirTrain to NJ Transit; both mean stairs, changes and crowds with luggage, and LaGuardia has only buses, so a car at the terminal door is the calm choice at any hour.

Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art: what the ticket covers

Here is what a full visit includes, in the order most visitors take it.

• Meet your guide at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on Fifth Avenue
• Enter with your pre-arranged museum ticket
• The Egyptian galleries and an ancient tomb chapel
• The Temple of Dendur in its glass-walled hall
• Greek and Roman sculpture
• The Tiffany loggia in the American Wing
• European paintings by Van Gogh and Monet, and sculpture by Rodin
• The tour ends inside the museum, free to keep exploring

What you will see and why it matters

Museum admission is pre-arranged and included; it is a walking tour at a moderate pace, galleries may close without notice, wheelchair users can use the ground-level entrance, and the museum is closed on Wednesdays. The Met without getting lost.

It sits inside the wider story of New York: New York City is served by three airports: John F. Kennedy (JFK) in Queens about 25 km from Midtown Manhattan, LaGuardia (LGA) about 15 km away, and Newark (EWR) across the Hudson in New Jersey about 25 km from Midtown, with the bridges, tunnels and expressways between them among the busiest roads in America.

How the visit works

Entry is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue; exact meeting spot on your confirmation. Allow about 2 hours inside. Be at the entrance a quarter of an hour early; late arrival can mean waiting for the next slot.

Good to know: Maximum 15; walking tour; galleries may close without notice; museum closed Wednesdays.

Booking Metropolitan Museum of Art Highlights Guided Tour with Tickets New York with Haqqi Tours

Send the form on this page with your date and the number of adults and children (2–14). Our team replies on WhatsApp, usually within minutes, with the confirmation and the meeting details. You pay only after that, and the price on this page is the whole price.

We operate in United States year-round, in English and Arabic, and every ticket on this page is one our own team has checked and stands behind.