The Met opens up its art collection to Animal Crossing: New Horizons players

The Met is celebrating 150 years of collecting and presenting works of art in its galleries. But now, some of those works can be in a gallery of your very own: the sizable, virtual museums of Animal Crossing.

The in-game art museum and Blathers, its owl curator, have been beloved features of the video game series for nearly twenty years. In honor of their official return in Animal Crossing: New Horizons, the latest entry of the popular life-simulation game, and alongside the incredible efforts of our colleagues at The Getty, CAM, and museums around the world, The Met's Digital Department has made the Museum's entire collection of more than 406,000 Open Access images easy to transport into your virtual homes and islands.

If you want to access what The Met has to offer, you can do so right here on this official page. There's even a step-by-step guide on how to get these real-life creations into your game. No need to bother with Redd anymore after this!