Brooklyn Museum of Art

Brooklyn Museum of Art photo

Gallery in Brooklyn Precinct, New York United States

http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/

The Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States.

One of the premier art institutions in the world, its permanent collection includes more than one-and-a-half million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and the art of many other cultures. Housed in a 560,000 square foot (52,000 m²), Beaux-Arts building, approximately 500,000 patrons visit the museum each year.

The Museum is located on Eastern Parkway, at Washington Avenue. It is co-located with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Mount Prospect Park, and the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library. The museum sits at the border of the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Flatbush neighborhoods. It is near Brooklyn’s Prospect Park.

Address
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Brooklyn Precinct
New York
United States
Postal Address
Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052
United States

Opening Hours
Sunday11 a.m. – 6 p.m. Monday and Tuesday Closed Wednesday – Friday 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Saturday 11 a.m. – 6 p.m. First Saturday of Each Month 11 a.m. – 11 p.m
Price
$10 for adults and to $6 for older adults and students with valid identification. Some exhibitions may have additional charges.
Wheelchair Access

Yes

Email

Phone
(718) 638-5000

Kiki Smith: Sojourn

Andy Warhol: The Last Decade

Shiny black rock shaped like two prongs

Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets

Healing the Wounds of War: The Brooklyn Sanitary Fair of 1864

Work of Art: Abdi Farah

Although the collection of European paintings has often been presented in a chronological arrangement by school or style, this installation exploits the architecture of the soaring Beaux-Arts Court by devoting each wall to an exploration of the meaningful connections that the works display when arranged according to theme.

European Paintings

The Brooklyn Museum has completed conservation work on its “little” Lady Liberty, a thirty-foot replica of the Bedloe’s Island Statue of Liberty. The historic statue, which once adorned the Liberty Warehouse in Manhattan, is part of the Museum’s permanent collection of New York City architectural pieces.

Replica of the Statue of Liberty

Girl wears bracelet wrapped around her arm interestingly

From the Village to Vogue

Fan with picture on front of hand painted, seated man.

Dramatic painting of bridge arches

American Identities

These twelve massive carved alabaster panels, on view together for the first time, dominate the walls of the Brooklyn Museum’s Hagop Kevorkian Gallery of Ancient Middle Eastern Art. Originally brightly painted, they once adorned the vast palace of King Ashur-nasir-pal II (883–859 B.C.), one of the greatest rulers of ancient Assyria.

Assyrian Reliefs

The Brooklyn Museum’s decorative arts collection occupies the fourth floor of the Museum. The focus of the collection is a group of American period rooms ranging in date from the 18th century to the 20th century. Interspersed with the period rooms are galleries that display an outstanding collection of American furniture, silver, pewter, glass, and ceramics.

Decorative Arts Galleries and Period Rooms

Sculpture of egyptian woman nursing child

Installation of triangle shaped dinner table

The Dinner Party

Extended Family: Contemporary Connections

Visible Storage ▪ Study Center

Prince

Arts of Asia and the Islamic World

Over 250 works spanning more than 2,500 years represent art from the African continent in the Museum’s first-floor galleries. Additional related art from ancient Egypt and Islamic North Africa can be found in the second- and third-floor galleries. The main focus of the African collections is on sculpture from West and Central Africa.

The Arts of Africa

Due to installations in the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, twelve bronze sculptures by Auguste Rodin have been installed in the Rubin Entrance Pavilion.

Dedicated in 1966, the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden at the Brooklyn Museum is a preeminent collection of terracotta, stone, and metal architectural elements salvaged from now-demolished structures throughout the metropolitan area and reinstalled outside the Museum’s Norman M. Feinberg Entrance.

Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden

The Mummy Chamber