The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, 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 d…
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet, 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.
Established: August 1823 (as Brooklyn Apprentices' Library)
Location: 200 Eastern Parkway · Brooklyn, New York
Built: 1895
Architect: McKim, Mead & White; French, Daniel Chester
Architectural style: Beaux-Arts
Former name: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Museum of Art
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