In what year did the Met Breuer open?

The Met Breuer opened in 2016.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art launched the branch on March 18, 2016, in the former Whitney Museum of American Art building on Madison Avenue. Designed by Hungarian-American architect Marcel Breuer and completed in 1966, the building became one of New York’s best-known examples of Brutalist architecture.

The Met created the outpost to give modern and contemporary art a larger, more visible place within its encyclopedic program. Its first exhibitions included a survey of Indian modernist Nasreen Mohamedi and “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible,” a wide-ranging presentation of incomplete artworks from the Renaissance to the present.

The branch’s tenure was brief. The Met planned to vacate the building in 2020, partly because of the costly lease and modest attendance. The COVID-19 pandemic forced a temporary closure on March 13, 2020, and the Met announced three months later that the branch would close permanently. The Frick Collection subsequently occupied the site as Frick Madison during renovations.