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Met to Merge with Neue Galerie in 2028, $200M Endowment.

5/14/2026

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Neue Galerie Merges

U.S. Neue Galerie New York will merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028.
The museum will be named The Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie and will receive a $200 million endowment.
Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I stays at the Neue, while Der Schwarze Federhut and donated works move to the Met.
The Neue will close on 27 May for renovations and reopen in autumn before its November 25th anniversary.

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Lauders Donate

Ronald Lauder and daughter Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer will donate Gustav Klimt’s Die Tanzerin (c. 1916–18), Ernst Kirchner’s Die Russische Tänzerin Mela (1911) and Max Beckmann’s Galleria Umberto (1925).
Klimt’s The Black Feather Hat (1910) and works by Otto Dix, George Grosz and Franz Marc will raise total to 13 paintings.
Met CEO Max Hollein praised the donors, saying the gift will deepen museums’ capacity to tell stories about this period.

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Met Expands

The William Starr Miller House will join The Met’s portfolio in 2028 and be renamed The Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie.
The museum will keep Café Sabarsky open for visitors.
Its collection, shops and programs will stay open in the renovated space.
The transferred endowment will fund collection care and operations, making the Neue Galerie the Met’s third site with Fifth Avenue and the Cloisters.

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Lauder Backs Met

Aerin Lauder Zinterhofer, Estée Lauder director and new Met trustee, calls the merger dear to Ronald Lauder.
She says Ronald Lauder’s passion for Austrian-German art makes the Met an ideal partner.
She notes a friendship between her father and Met director Max Hollein and that Ronald Lauder now dines at the museum’s Café Sabarsky every Sunday.

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Neue Galerie Merges

U.S. Neue Galerie New York will merge with Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2028.
The museum will be named The Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie and will receive a $200 million endowment.
Klimt’s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I stays at the Neue, while Der Schwarze Federhut and donated works move to the Met.
The Neue will close on 27 May for renovations and reopen in autumn before its November 25th anniversary.

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