Having reeled in more than 5.7 million visitors to its two locations The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters for the fiscal year 2025, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has seen more visitors walk through its doors compared to the fiscal year 2024.

The Met’s overall attendance has ticked up 5 percent since fiscal-year 2024. Tristate-area residents have helped boost the numbers. For the second consecutive year, the turnout among local visitors from New York, Connecticut and New Jersey has exceeded pre-pandemic figures. That has contributed to a 109 percent post-pandemic rebound compared to 2019. For fiscal-year 2025, which ends on June 30, local attendance accounted for 62 percent of the Met’s overall visitors. In addition, domestic out-of-state visitors accounted for 23 percent of the foot traffic.

The opening day for the general public of the much anticipated Michael C. Rockefeller wing on May 31 was a winner for the Upper East Side cultural institution. That unveiling resulted in highest single-day attendance since 2017. The museum welcomed 33,700 visitors, and many no doubt headed for the redesigned wing to see the collections of the arts of Africa, the ancient Americas, and Oceania. The $70 million renovation had been a multiyear endeavor. Huastec artwork that was donated by the late fashion designer Mary McFadden, an intrepid traveler for decades, is among the objects.

“We are thrilled by the continued growth of our audiences, particularly across New York City and the surrounding area, with visitors showing incredible enthusiasm for our ambitious programming,” said Max Hollein, the Met’s Marina Kellen French director and chief executive officer. “Whether through our thought-provoking exhibitions, inventive educational initiatives, or wide-ranging digital offerings, the Met provides an array of ways to engage with our collection spanning 5,000 years of art from across time and around the world.”

It’s worth noting that 40 percent of the Met’s fiscal-year guests said they planned their trips to see a specific presentation. Some of the main attractions include the museum’s summer blockbuster “Sargent and Paris,” which has pulled in more than 427,000 visitors to date. There is still a little time to buy tickets for thosewho want to explore John Singer Sargent’s early days in Paris from 1874 through the mid-1880s. The exhibition at the Fifth Avenue museum is on view through Aug. 3.

Another key exhibition has been the Costume Institute’s “Superfine: Tailoring Black Style,” which has registered more than 291,000 visitors. That fashion extravaganza, which millions associate with the Met Gala, runs through Oct. 26. Some of the Met’s other strong suits for fiscal-year 2025 have been “Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature” with 300,000 visitors and “Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300-1350” with 298,000 guests. Interestingly, the last months of two other shows — “The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism” and “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” — pulled in 464,000 and 401,000 visitors respectively.

The chronically impatient or just highly organized managed to minimize any wait times by taking advantage of the Met’s “more expedited” ways to enter the museum’s galleries. Forty percent of the visitors did just that and not just via online ticket sales or scannable membership cards. The Met recently rolled out an online ticketing option for New York State residents to reserve pay-what-you-wish tickets from its site. Of course, like every other museum in the world, the Met is trying to broaden its digital reach. The Met’s site had more 27 million-plus visits in fiscal-year 2025, of which 35 percent were from outside the U.S. The museum’s social media reach is robust — its Instagram has more 4.5 million followers, the museum’s “X” has more than 4.1 million, its Facebook has passed 2.3 million, its TikTok has more than 1.2 million and the Met’s LinkedIn has more than 430,000 followers. Some additions for the museum this year were the debuts of official channels on Chinese-language social media platforms Weibo and WeChat, which have racked up 66,500 and 27,500 followers, respectively.