Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn · founded 1897
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White.
- Visitors a year
- 0.5MVisitors a year
- Founded
- 1897Founded
What to see
The Dinner Party
Judy Chicago, 1979.
At the museum · Photo by Photo: Donald Woodman. Work of art: Judy Chicago., CC BY-SA 4.0
list of women in the Heritage Floor
Judy Chicago, 1974.
At the museum · Photo by Photo: Donald Woodman. Work of art: Judy Chicago., CC BY-SA 4.0
Wilbour Papyrus
In the museum’s collection.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Painting of Lady Tjepu
1390.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
A Storm in the Rocky Mountains, Mt. Rosalie
Albert Bierstadt, 1866.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plum Park in Kameido
Utagawa Hiroshige, 1857.
At the museum · Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Plan your visit
Hours
Published on the museum’s own site. Confirm on www.brooklynmuseum.org before you travel.
Getting there
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.
On their own site
Opening hours, tickets and current exhibitions are on the museum’s own site.
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