Just as it is getting ready to celebrate its 150th anniversary celebrations, America's biggest art museum is forced to close by the pandemic. This is the inside story of its climb back to reopening.
The outcry following the murder of George Floyd in May 2020 has the Met, during lockdown, examining its record on inclusion and diversity, and realising it must change.
With a cash crisis, restrictions on visitor numbers and exhibitions, a new roof to pay for, and an imminent election causing alarm, friends and donors rally round to save the Met.