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The Metropolitan Museum of Art is slated to get a $25 million LED lighting upgrade – with taxpayers footing the bill.

The Big Apple pays for energy bills as part of a unique partnership with the MET and other members of its “Cultural Institutions Group” — including the Bronx Zoo, American Museum of Natural History and Brooklyn Academy of Music — for nearly 150 years, a rep said.

The world-renowned Upper East Side museum — which is privately owned and operated and has an endowment estimated at $3 billion — is set to get nearly 20,000 “state-of-the-art sustainable” LED light fixtures across its 324 galleries.

The new lights are meant to “significantly” improve visual clarity and preservation of the art collection, as well as maximize energy efficiency to cut operating

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