MetScreensaver

The Metropolitan Museum of Art's highlighted masterworks, cycling beautifully across your screen.

v1.0 macOS 13+ Free & Open Source

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Why MetScreensaver

Art that moves with you

Over 50,000 highlighted works from The Met's permanent collection, beautifully animated and always current.

Met Highlights

Every slide is drawn live from The Metropolitan Museum of Art's curated highlights — works the curators consider most significant.

Ken Burns Effect

Subtle zoom and pan animations bring paintings to life — scaling at 1.08× over 18 seconds with direction chosen by image aspect ratio.

Always Fresh

Artworks are fetched live from the Met's open API. The collection refreshes daily, so you'll never see the same sequence twice.

Get Started

Download, unzip, double-click to install — then activate in System Settings → Screen Saver.

A .saver bundle for macOS 13 Ventura and later

v1.0 macOS 13+ Free

1 Double-click MetScreensaver.saver.zip to unzip, then double-click MetScreensaver.saver to install it.
2 If macOS shows "cannot be opened because it is from an unidentified developer" — right-click (or Control-click) the .saver file and choose Open from the menu.
3 A dialog will appear with an Open button. Click it to confirm and install.

1 Double-click MetScreensaver.saver — macOS will block it and show a security warning. Dismiss the dialog.
2 Open System Settings → Privacy & Security and scroll down to the Security section.
3 Click Open Anyway next to the MetScreensaver entry, then confirm in the resulting dialog.

1 Open Terminal (Applications → Utilities → Terminal).
2 Run the command below to remove the quarantine flag, then double-click the .saver file to install normally:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine ~/Downloads/MetScreensaver.saver