Brooklyn Museum

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African art of the Dogon
book chapter 1973

Summary: The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White. Wikipedia
Encyclopædia Britannica: Biography [3]
Inception: 1889 [2]; 1897 [3]
Country: United States [1][2][3]; Stany Zjednoczone [4]
Location: Brooklyn, NY [1]; Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) [2]; Brooklyn [3]; Nowy Jork (Stany Zjednoczone) [4]
Website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ [3]
Organization Type: art museum [3]; nonprofit organization [3]; museum [3]
Parent Organization: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences [1]

Sources: 1. Deutsche Nationalbibliothek (Germany); 2. Library of Congress; 3. Wikidata; 4. National Library of Poland

Last updated Sep 5, 2025