Two of New York’s most prominent museums—the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Neue Galerie —will be merging in 2028. The forthcoming union between the institutions will see the Met own the Neue Galerie’s Beaux-Arts mansion, renaming it the Met Ronald S. Lauder Neue Galerie —or the Met Neue Galerie , for short—while preserving its museum experience. The news arrives ahead of the Neue Galerie’s 25th anniversary, as well as its renovations, slated to take place from May 27 through August 2026. “The merger with the Met in 2028 will preserve and strengthen the Neue Galerie’s legacy in perpetuity,” Neue Galerie founder Ronald S. Lauder wrote in a letter related to the announcement. A source at the Met told me that Lauder was inspired by how the museum manages its Cloisters satellite, further uptown. The Neue Galerie. Courtesy of the Met.…