Brooklyn Museum, NY

As an art gallery and museum, the Brooklyn Museum may be found in New York City’s Brooklyn neighborhood. An art collection of around 500,000 artifacts resides in a facility measuring 52,000 M2, making it New York City’s third-largest museum.

The McKim, Mead and White-designed Beaux-Arts structure, located near Brooklyn’s Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods, was intended to be the world’s largest art museum when it was completed in 1895. In the late 20th century, the museum had a thorough makeover, allowing it to regain its former luster. Antiquities, particularly Egyptian antiquities dating back 3,000 years, make up a significant portion of the collection.

Antiquities collections from Europe, Africa, Oceania, and Japan are also notable. Since the colonial era, there has been a significant presence of American art in the collection. Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O’Keeffe, and Max Weber are all represented in the collection. The Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden within the museum contains repurposed New York City architectural components.

Artifacts from around the world are on display in the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. Among the museum’s many notable holdings are Egyptian and African art, as well as paintings and sculptures from the 17th to the 20th centuries from a wide variety of schools.

The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation gifted the museum the feminist artist Judy Chicago’s 2002 work The Dinner Party. The museum’s Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art opened its permanent exhibition in 2007. For the opening of the museum’s refurbished Grand Lobby and plaza in 2004, the Brooklyn Museum presented Manifest Destiny, an 8-by-24-foot oil-on-wood mural by Alexis Rockman that was commissioned by the museum as a showpiece for its second-floor Mezzanine Gallery.

Contemporary artists such as Patrick Kelly and Chuck Close have been featured in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art; Chuck Peterson; Denis Peterson; Takashi Murakami; Mat Benote; Kiki Smith; Jim Dine; Robert Rauschenberg; Ching Ho Cheng; Sylvia Sleigh; William Wegman; and Open House: Working in Brooklyn.

Ten of the 30 Coptic art pieces held by the museum—the second-largest in North America—are believed to be fake, according to the museum’s curator Edna Russman in 2008. In 2009, the artworks began to be seen publicly for the first time.

In November 2020, the virtual exhibition “The Queen and the Crown” included costumes from the television series The Crown and The Queen’s Gambit.

The Brooklyn Museum is located at 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY 11238

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