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Brooklyn Museum
(U.S. National Register of Historic Places)
Brooklyn Museum, February 2007 Brooklyn Museum, February 2007
Location:	New York, NY
Coordinates:	_ ]
Built/Founded:	1895
Architect:	McKim, Mead & White; French,Daniel Chester
Architectural style(s):	Beaux-Arts
Added to NRHP:	August 22, 1977
NRHP Reference#:	77000944 ^[1]
Governing body:	Private

The Brooklyn Museum, located at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, is the second largest art museum in New York City, and one of the largest in the United States. Arnold L. Lehman is the museum's Director.

Opened in 1897, the Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure—built to the standards of classical masonry—designed by the famous architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White and built by the Carlin Construction Company. Daniel Chester French, the noted sculptor of the Lincoln Memorial, was the sculptor of two allegorical figures, Brooklyn and Manhattan, and of the figures on the pediment.

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. Located in Central Brooklyn, the museum is a half-hour from midtown Manhattan and about 15minutes from downtown Brooklyn, and is serviced by the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum subway station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line (2 3 4), and the nearby Botanic Garden station of the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. The Museum is located on Eastern Parkway, at Washington Avenue, and is on the same parcel of land that contains the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, Mount Prospect Park, and the Central Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library.

The Brooklyn Museum exhibits collections that seek to embody the rich artistic heritage of world cultures. The museum sits at the border of the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, and Flatbush neighborhoods. It is near Brooklyn's Prospect Park.

In 2002, the museum purchased the work The Dinner Party by feminist artist Judy Chicago funded by a gift from The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. Its permanent exhibition began in 2007.

The Brooklyn Museum changed its name to Brooklyn Museum of Art in 1997. On March 12, 2004, the museum announced that it would again be called by its previous name. In 2005, the museum was among 406 New York City arts and social service institutions to receive part of a $20 million grant from the Carnegie Corporation, which was made possible through a donation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg. [1] [2]

In 2000 the Brooklyn Museum started a special teen program known as the Student Museum Apprentice Program in which the museum hires teens ages 13-17,to give tours in the museum's galleries during the summer,assist with the museum's weekend family programs throughout the year,participate in talks with museum curators,and serve as a teen advisory board to the museum, and also to help plan teen events.

Every first saturday of every month the Brooklyn Museum has free family events, which include arts and crafts,live music and a dance party and the museum stays open late,this event is known as "The Brooklyn Museum Target First Saturday" and is sponsored by Target.

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1. ^ National Register Information System. National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service (2007-01-23).

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McKim, Mead, and White was a prominent architectural firm in the eastern United States at the turn of the twentieth century. The firm consisted of Charles McKim, William Mead, and Stanford White. McKim and White studied under Henry Hobson Richardson before forming their own firm.
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Beaux Arts architecture^[1] denotes the academic classical architectural style that was taught at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style "Beaux Arts"
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Location: Brooklyn, New York City

Built/Founded: 1870
Architect: Frederick Law Olmsted; Calvert Vaux

Added to NRHP: September 26, 1983

NRHP Reference#: 83001689 ^[1]

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1: Manhattan 2: Brooklyn 3: Queens 4: The Bronx 5: Staten Island]]
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Brooklyn (named after the Dutch town Breukelen) is one of the five boroughs of New York City. An independent city until its consolidation into New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with nearly 2.5 million residents.
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art gallery or art museum is a space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art. Paintings are the most commonly displayed medium; however, sculpture, photographs, illustrations, installation art and objects from the applied arts may also be shown.
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
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Architecture is the art and science of designing buildings and structures. A wider definition often includes the design of the total built environment: from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of construction details and,
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Daniel Chester French (April 20 1850 – October 7 1931) was an American sculptor. His best-known work is the sculpture of a seated Abraham Lincoln at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.
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Location Washington, D.C., USA

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Area 107.43 acres (0.43 km²)
Established May 30, 1922
Total visitation 3,638,806 (in 2005)
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Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, with New York County. With a 2000 population of 1,537,195^[2] living in a land area of 22.96 square miles (59.
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New York City Subway

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Transit type(s) Rapid transit
Began operation first section of subway: October 27, 1904
first elevated operation: July 3, 1868
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The Eastern Parkway Line is one of the lines of the IRT division of the New York City Subway, stretching from Downtown Brooklyn east to Crown Heights. After passing Crown Heights–Utica Avenue, the line rises onto an elevated structure and becomes the New Lots Line to the end
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For the former BMT service, see 2 (BMT).

The 2 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored red on station signs, the New York City Subway map and on rollsigns on most IRT rolling stock equipment because it represents
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The 3 Seventh Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway. It is colored red on station signs, the New York City Subway map and on most IRT rolling stock equipment because it represents service provided
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4 behind Yankee Stadium and above River Avenue in the Bronx. The 161st Street–Yankee Stadium station can be seen in the distance]] The 4 Lexington Avenue Express is a service of the New York City Subway.
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The Brooklyn Botanic Garden (BBG) is a botanical garden located across from Prospect Park near Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Founded in 1910, the 52 acre (210,000 m²) garden includes a cherry tree esplanade, a one-acre (4,000 m²) rose garden, a Japanese
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Mount Prospect Park is a 7.79 acre (32 hectare) park in the central portion of the New York City borough of Brooklyn. It includes Mount Prospect, the second highest point in Brooklyn. It is located on Eastern Parkway near Underhill Avenue, close to Grand Army Plaza.
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Brooklyn Public Library (BPL), is the public library system of the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. It is the fifth largest public library system in the United States.
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