Image: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is highlighting 'Creatures of Myth and Imagination,' an exhibit at The Met Cloisters in New York that remains on view through October 18, 2026. The museum describes the presentation as showcasing mythological and fantastical creatures in art from Europe and the Americas, placing the show among a group of summer and fall exhibitions currently promoted by The Met.
The exhibition is installed at The Met Cloisters, the museum’s branch devoted to medieval art and architecture in Fort Tryon Park. In the current Met newsletter, 'Creatures of Myth and Imagination: Europe and the Americas' appears alongside other separately listed shows at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters, including 'Giacometti in the Temple of Dendur,' 'Musical Bodies,' 'Costume Art,' and 'Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy.' The Cloisters installation is the one explicitly identified with the mythological-creatures theme.
The source material does not provide a curatorial essay or object list, but it does indicate the exhibition’s geographic scope. By naming Europe and the Americas together, the museum frames the display as a cross-cultural look at how artists have represented invented, hybrid, and legendary beings across time and place. That broad framing is reinforced by the imagery attached to the newsletter, which includes ancient and later works from the museum collection among the visual material associated with the announcement.
The Met’s promotional language positions the exhibition as a visitor-facing experience rather than a narrowly academic installation. The phrase “experience the exhibit” appears in the announcement, and the show is presented through the museum’s regular exhibition listing format, which also includes a “Take a virtual tour” prompt for several other current Met exhibitions. Within that newsletter context, 'Creatures of Myth and Imagination' is one of the featured entries tied to a fixed run at The Met Cloisters.
The verified dates are straightforward: the exhibition opened on July 14, 2026, and is scheduled to close on October 18, 2026. No additional venues or alternate date ranges are given in the source material, and no further claims about participating artists, lenders, or specific works are provided in the verified text.
For readers following The Met’s late-summer program, 'Creatures of Myth and Imagination' is one of several concurrent exhibitions across the museum’s locations, but it is the only one in the source material centered specifically on mythological and fantastical creatures in art from Europe and the Americas. The exhibition is on view at The Met Cloisters through October 18, 2026.
