A leading art museum in the United States presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy. The Museum collects, studies, conserves, and presents significant works of art across all times and cultures in order to connect people to creativity, knowledge, and ideas. It was established for the purpose of establishing and maintaining a library of art, to encourage and develop the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts, and advance the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, furnish popular instruction.