The soon-to-close Met Heavenly Bodies exhibit visited by 1.3 million

Set to conclude in just over a week, the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and
the Catholic Imagination exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art has had
a record-breaking number of visitors.

The display, which is currently featured at main museum on Fifth Avenue
and The Met Cloisters location, has reportedly had over 1.3 million
visitors while 200,000 have made their way to The Met Cloisters. It marks
the most visited showcase at The Met’s Costume Institute.

Comprised of 25 galleries, it is the largest exhibition to be staged at
the museum and features designs from Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga,
Thom Browne, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano for the House of Dior, Pierpaolo
Piccioli for Valentino, Elsa Schiaparelli – among others.

With sponsorship from the likes of Condé Nast and Versace, Heavenly
Bodies is now cutting close to the most attended show in the museum,
Treasures of Tutankhamun, which ran in 1978. It is the second
record-breaking exhibit at the facility this year. Michelangelo: Divine
Draftsman and Designer attracted 700,000 visitors during its run from last
November to this February. Heavenly Bodies is now the tenth most visited
exhibition in the museum’s history.

Photos courtesy of the Met