The big winner from a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Museum of Art over its recommended $25 admission charge is the plaintiffs’ lawyer — who is seeking a staggering $350,000 fee for handling a case that resulted in a nonmonetary settlement.

A Manhattan Supreme Court judge will consider the amount following a March hearing, but the museum has already signed off, calling the fee “not unreasonable” in court papers.

A New Yorker and two tourists sued in 2013 claiming the museum was legally barred from accepting admission money according to an original 1878 lease.

The settlement, reached last June, simply makes a semantic change on museum signage that will now refer to its $25 admission as “suggested” instead of “recommended.”

The three named plaintiffs will get a nominal $1,000 each for their participation in the yearslong case.

The plaintiffs’ attorney, Andrew G. Celli Jr. of the law firm Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, did not return messages for comment.

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