About the Brooklyn Museum

At the Brooklyn Museum, we see art as a vital force for personal transformation and social change. For two hundred years, the Museum has worked to expand the definitions of art by revealing untold stories and uplifting our shared humanity. As one of the oldest, largest, and boldest art museums in the United States, the Brooklyn Museum holds an encyclopedic collection of over 500,000 objects representing more than 5,500 years of creativity—housed in a grand 560,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building designed by McKim, Mead & White. Highlights include the ancient Egyptian holdings and the Arts of the Americas collection, unrivaled in its diverse range, from Native American art and artifacts to Spanish colonial painting to nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American painting, sculpture, and decorative objects. The Museum is committed to collecting and presenting contemporary art that represents the diversity of our city and nation. The Museum is also home to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, which is dedicated to the study and exhibition of feminist art and is the only curatorial center of its kind.