Brooklyn Museum
Encyclopaedic museum on Eastern Parkway, known for Egyptian art and the Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
The Brooklyn Museum traces its origins to the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library of 1823 and is the second largest art museum in New York City. Its Beaux-Arts building on Eastern Parkway, designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1897, was intended to be four times its eventual size; the scheme was curtailed after Brooklyn's consolidation into Greater New York. Allegorical figures by Daniel Chester French flank the cornice, and a glass and steel entrance pavilion with a fanned plaza was added in 2004.
Around half a million objects span five continents and five thousand years. The Egyptian, Classical and Ancient Near Eastern collections are among the strongest in the United States, while the Arts of the Americas and African galleries are similarly wide ranging. Twenty-one reconstructed period rooms include a Dutch colonial interior and a Moorish smoking room from John D. Rockefeller's Manhattan house. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, opened in 2007, houses Judy Chicago's installation The Dinner Party as its permanent centrepiece.
Highlights
- Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party in the Sackler Center for Feminist Art
- Egyptian galleries with coffins, mummies and reliefs
- Twenty-one period rooms, including a Moorish smoking room
- McKim, Mead & White facade with sculpture by Daniel Chester French
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