The Metropolitan Museum of Art has always been the titan of the city's art museums—a stalwart, immense, classical structure that provides an equally solid foundation in the basics of art. Millions of New Yorkers transplanted or city-bred, inner or outer borough, student or neophyte, have paid a visit as a rite of passage. But this is a museum that needs to be explored yearly.

The Met has the most varied and comprehensive exhibits in the western world. Autumn is the perfect time to visit the Met Fifth Avenue, set against the backdrop of Central Park's changing leaves. This year's offerings will satisfy the greediest culture vulture, and here are a few of our favorite current exhibitions: 

Surrealism Beyond Borders

There's more to surrealism than melting clocks and Dali's mustache. Surrealism cherished the absurd, challenging the tyranny of the normal. The movement started in Paris around 1924 and quickly went international. The beyond borders exhibit showcases surrealist works outside the usual western European scope. Surrealism was an international movement, spanning the globe. The exhibit features almost eight decades of work produced across 45 countries, giving a fresh perspective on a revolutionary movement.

In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the Met

The seventeenth century was the Golden Age of Dutch painting, the age of Rembrandt, Vermeer, and Hals. The Dutch masters have been an integral part of the Met's collection since it was founded in 1871. In this exhibit, sixty-seven works of art will be organized thematically, highlighting key issues in seventeenth-century Dutch culture. As well as uniting paintings from several celebrated collections, the display includes rarely exhibited paintings, such as one of only two known paintings by Margareta Haverman, which is the only painting by an early modern Dutch woman in the Metropolitan's collection.

Fabergé from the Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation

Art collector Matilda Geddings Gray established a foundation to oversee her collection of treasures, with the stipulation that a broad public would be allowed to view and enjoy it. Her collection of works by Peter Carl Fabergé is world-renowned. Peter Carl Fabergé was an artisan and jeweler of immense talent and ambition, who transformed a small family atelier in Saint Petersburg into an enterprise employing hundreds of craftsmen. Fabergé's most famous creations were the fifty Imperial Easter Eggs he created for Russia's last Imperial Family, the Romanovs. Each of the eggs were exquisite, confectionary objets d'art that became synonymous with expensive luxury. Sadly, eight of them are missing, and it's not known if they survived the Russian revolution. Three Fabergé eggs are on exhibit in the Geddings Gray collection. One, a gift from Czar Alexander III to his wife, is an opalescent pink enamel with emeralds, diamonds, and sapphires. The Imperial Caucasus egg is adorned with diamonds, pearls, and ivory.  The Imperial Napoleonic Egg, which Nicholas II gave his mother the dowager empress on Easter of 1912, commemorated the centenary of the Russian victory over Napoleon. All of the eggs open to reveal surprise folding screens with miniature paintings, and each one is a beautifully crafted piece of history.

The Met is an integral part of New York City, providing a place to view priceless artifacts, sculptures, and paintings. Go to this website to access pay-as-you-wish admission. Take advantage of this precious resource, and remember, to get the full experience, you really need to go several times.

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