The Metropolitan Museum of Art opens Tiffany show on 29 October

On 29 October 2026, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City opens Marketing the Gilded Age: Advertising Publications from the Studios of Louis C. Tiffany. The exhibition at the Fifth Avenue museum runs through 16 February 2027 and brings printed material from Tiffany Studios into a setting shaped by more than a century of collecting.

Marketing the Gilded Age opens on 29 October

The exhibition is listed by the museum as an upcoming presentation from 29 October 2026 to 16 February 2027. It is located at The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Fifth Avenue building, at 1000 Fifth Avenue in Manhattan.

Its subject is the publishing and promotional material produced by the studios of Louis Comfort Tiffany. The exhibition page identifies objects including a 1896 publication from the Tiffany Glass and Decorating Company, a 1910 list of windows, a 1913 publication on decoration and furnishings, and material associated with Tiffany Studios from the early twentieth century.

The programme connects commercial print with the wider production of stained glass, mosaics, lamps and interiors associated with Tiffany's workshops. The museum's exhibition listing gives the opening and closing dates, while the exhibition objects page records the publications and their dates.

How Tiffany material fits the Fifth Avenue museum

The museum opened to the public at its current site on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street on 30 March 1880. Architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould designed the initial Ruskinian Gothic structure, whose west facade remains visible in the Robert Lehman Wing.

The Beaux-Arts Fifth Avenue facade and Great Hall opened to the public in December 1902. They were designed by architect and founding trustee Richard Morris Hunt, giving the building a formal architectural setting for the exhibition's focus on design, manufacture and presentation.

That connection between objects and architecture is especially direct here: a publication about Tiffany work is being shown inside a museum whose own history includes a major decorative-arts tradition. The building has expanded around its original structure, with additions dating from as early as 1888. A concise history of the museum confirms the 1880 move to Central Park and the role of Richard Morris Hunt in the later main building.

What the exhibition adds to New York's Tiffany story

The exhibition does not centre only on finished interiors. Its listed material includes catalogues, photographic albums and descriptions of memorial windows, mausoleums, bronze lamps and mosaic work. These items show how a studio presented its services and designs to potential clients and institutions.

The date range also places the display within the period when Tiffany Studios developed a broad decorative-arts business. A 1896 publication and works from 1910, 1913, 1914 and 1922 create a documented sequence across the studio's output, rather than a single isolated example.

Visiting The Metropolitan Museum of Art: what travellers from Western Europe should know

• Marketing the Gilded Age opens on 29 October 2026 and remains at the Fifth Avenue building through 16 February 2027.
• The venue is 1000 Fifth Avenue in New York City, and the exhibition listing states that exhibitions are free with Museum admission.
• The museum stands beside Central Park at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street, where it has occupied its present site since 1880.
• The visit takes place in a large museum complex whose original building was designed by Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould, while the Beaux-Arts facade and Great Hall opened in 1902.
• Entry requirements depend on your nationality; UK travellers can check the FCDO travel advice at gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice, Irish travellers the Department of Foreign Affairs at ireland.ie.

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Frequently asked questions about The Metropolitan Museum of Art

When does Marketing the Gilded Age take place at The Metropolitan Museum of Art?

The exhibition opens on 29 October 2026 and runs through 16 February 2027 at the Fifth Avenue building.

What is Marketing the Gilded Age?

It is an exhibition of advertising publications and related printed material from the studios of Louis C. Tiffany, including items from 1896 to 1922.

Where is The Metropolitan Museum of Art and how do you get there?

The Fifth Avenue building is at 1000 Fifth Avenue in New York City, beside Central Park at 82nd Street.