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Met Museum Exhibit Welcomes One Million Tourists In Only Three Months

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A Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibit in New York City welcomed its one-millionth visitor Thursday in a span of around three months.

The Met’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibit broke the record for the number of visitors for its annual fashion exhibit, Vogue reported. The exhibit curated by Andrew Bolton featured haute couture pieces by designers Gianni Versace and Cristóbal Balenciaga, and papal robe loans from the Vatican.

The museum previously hosted its annual Met Gala to mark the debut of the new exhibit on May 10. Celebrities wore Catholic-inspired outfits for the gala on May 7.

Singer Rihanna drew attention for wearing a papal-inspired outfit to the event designed by John Galliano for Maison Margiela.

Co-chair enjoying the #MetHeavenlyBodies exhibition. (@rihanna) #MetGala pic.twitter.com/KAGlw50rlB

— Met Gala (@themetgala) May 8, 2018

The exhibit features a wide variety of unique outfits with religious symbolism.

I’ve been wanting to see the Heavenly Bodies exhibit since it opened up and it was SENSATIONAL. Here were my favorite looks. pic.twitter.com/o6YMO108sF

— carina (@carinasnook) August 23, 2018

The world-renowned museum also released a time-lapse video detailing the construction of the exhibit. 

WATCH:

Watch a video featuring time-lapse photography of the installation of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” on view at The Met Fifth Avenue and The Met Cloisters through October 8, 2018. https://t.co/6foxxgHlEB #MetHeavenlyBodies pic.twitter.com/ZYNGYNyn3E

— The Met (@metmuseum) August 15, 2018

The museum expected to reach a large number of tourists based on the prominence of Catholicism around the globe. The Met’s 2015 exhibit “China: Through The Looking Glass,” which featured oriental-inspired clothes, previously topped the record with 815,992 visitors in total.