Great Hall

The Beaux-Arts style, classically inspired Great Hall at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (designed by architect Richard Morris Hunt, 1902) serves as the museum's main entry, marking the intersection of the stairway up to the European painting galleries and the Egyptian, Greek and Roman galleries to the north and south.

Spring 2012 exhibition: Elsa Schiaparelli and Miuccia Prada: On Fashion, organized by The Costume Institute of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The exhibition will feature 80 designs by Elsa Schiaparelli (1890-1973) from the late 1920s to the early 1950s and Miuccia Prada from the late 1980s to the present, exploring the affinities between these two Italian designers. Film director, screenwriter and producer Baz Luhrmann will be the exhibition's creative consultant. On view May 10 through August 19, 1000 Fifth Avenue, www.metmuseum.org.