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{{short description|Art museum in Brooklyn, New York}}
{{distinguish|Brooklyn Children's Museum|Brooklyn Academy of Music}}
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| former_name     = Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn Museum of Art
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| location        = 200 [[Eastern Parkway]],<br />[[Brooklyn]], New York
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| location = 200 [[Eastern Parkway]]<br />[[Brooklyn]], [[New York (state)|NY]] 11238
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| built = 1895
| architect = [[McKim, Mead & White]]; French, Daniel Chester
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The '''Brooklyn Museum''' is an [[art museum]] in the [[New York City]] [[borough (New York City)|borough]] of [[Brooklyn]]. At {{convert|560000|sqft}}, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.<ref name="nyt-2021-11-222">{{Cite news |last=Bahr |first=Sarah |date=November 22, 2021 |title=Brooklyn Museum to Receive $50 Million Gift From City of New York |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/city-gives-brooklyn-museum-50-million.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128185732/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/city-gives-brooklyn-museum-50-million.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Located near the [[Prospect Heights, Brooklyn|Prospect Heights]], [[Crown Heights, Brooklyn|Crown Heights]], [[Flatbush, Brooklyn|Flatbush]], and [[Park Slope]] neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's [[Beaux-Arts architecture|Beaux-Arts]] building was designed by [[McKim, Mead & White]].

The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1823 as the [[Brooklyn Apprentices' Library]] and merged with the '''Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences''' in 1843. The museum was conceived as an institution focused on a broad public.<ref name="Lawrence 1987">{{Cite journal |last=Lawrence |first=Deirdre E. |date=1987 |title=From Library to Art Museum: The Evolution of the Brooklyn Museum |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09647778709515090 |journal=International Journal of Museum Management and Curatorship |language=en |volume=6 |issue=4 |pages=381–386 |doi=10.1080/09647778709515090 |issn=0260-4779 |access-date=June 15, 2023 |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725190716/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09647778709515090 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum's current building dates to 1897 and has been expanded several times since then. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, but it was revitalized in the late 20th century following major renovations.

Significant areas of the collection include antiquities, specifically their collection of [[Egyptian antiquities]] spanning over 3,000 years. [[Art of Europe|European]], [[African art|African]], [[Oceanic art|Oceanic]], and [[Japanese art]] make for notable antiquities collections as well. [[Visual art of the United States|American art]] is heavily represented, starting at the [[American colonial period|Colonial]] period. Artists represented in the collection include [[Mark Rothko]], [[Edward Hopper]], [[Norman Rockwell]], [[Judy Chicago]], [[Winslow Homer]], [[Edgar Degas]], [[Georgia O'Keeffe]], and [[Max Weber (artist)|Max Weber]].

==History==
The Brooklyn Museum's origins date to August 1823,<ref name="Aldred Brooklyn Museum 1973 p.">{{cite book |last=Aldred |first=C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=H-4OAQAAMAAJ |title=Akhenaten and Nefertiti |author2=Brooklyn Museum |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |year=1973 |isbn=978-0-670-11139-8 |series=A Studio book |page=7 |issue=5}}</ref><ref name="Weeks 1894 p. 1526">{{cite book |last=Weeks |first=S.B. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lJxEAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1526 |title=A Preliminary List of American Learned and Educational Societies |year=1894 |page=1526}}</ref> when Brooklyn citizens, including Augustus Graham, founded the [[Brooklyn Apprentices' Library]] in [[Brooklyn Heights]].<ref name="j26458466">{{Cite journal |last=Dorward |first=Mary S. |date=1955 |title=The Brooklyn Museum Library |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26458466 |journal=Brooklyn Museum Bulletin |volume=16 |issue=4 |pages=11–15 |jstor=26458466 |issn=2578-7640 |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703151315/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26458466 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> The library was formally incorporated November 24, 1824,<ref name="Weeks 1894 p. 1526" /> and the cornerstone of the library's first building was laid in 1825 on Henry and Cranberry Street.<ref name="nyt-1898-07-09">{{Cite news |date=July 9, 1898 |title=The Brooklyn Institute; How Its Present Great Proportions Have Been Developed from Small Beginnings. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1898/07/09/archives/the-brooklyn-institute-how-its-present-great-proportions-have-been.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703182200/https://www.nytimes.com/1898/07/09/archives/the-brooklyn-institute-how-its-present-great-proportions-have-been.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Library moved into the [[Brooklyn Lyceum]] building on Washington Street in 1841.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum" /> The two institutions merged into the Brooklyn Institute in 1843; the institute offered exhibitions of painting and sculpture and lectures on diverse subjects.<ref name="nyt-1898-07-09" /><ref name="Brooklyn Museum" /> The Washington Street building was destroyed in a fire in 1891.<ref name="p126805239">{{Cite magazine |date=June 19, 1897 |title=The Brooklyn Institute's New Home |magazine=Scientific American |volume=LXXVI |issue=25 |page=390 |id={{ProQuest|126805239}}}}</ref>

=== Development and opening ===
In February 1889, several prominent Brooklyn citizens announced that they would begin fundraising for a new museum for the Brooklyn Institute.<ref name="n127453146">{{Cite news |date=February 6, 1889 |title=For Art and Science |pages=4 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-for-art-and-science/127453146/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702025216/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-for-art-and-science/127453146/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127453106">{{Cite news |date=February 6, 1889 |title=An Art Museum |pages=1 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-an-art-museum/127453106/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041534/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-an-art-museum/127453106/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum's proponents quickly identified a site just east of [[Prospect Park (Brooklyn)|Prospect Park]], on the south side of [[Eastern Parkway]].<ref name="n127453194">{{Cite news |date=March 17, 1889 |title=New Museums of Art |pages=7 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-museums-of-art/127453194/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041530/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-museums-of-art/127453194/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The next year, under director [[Franklin Hooper]], Institute leaders reorganized as the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences and began planning the Brooklyn Museum.<ref name="n127453344">{{Cite news |date=June 9, 1891 |title=The Brooklyn Institute |pages=1 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-the-brooklyn-in/127453344/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702025215/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-the-brooklyn-in/127453344/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Brooklyn officials hosted an [[architectural design competition]] for the building, eventually awarding the contract to [[McKim, Mead & White]].<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=October 11, 1987 |title=Streetscapes: Brooklyn Museum; A Touch of Imperial Rome Gracing Eastern Parkway |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/11/realestate/streetscapes-brooklyn-museum-a-touch-of-imperial-rome-gracing-eastern-parkway.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 27, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190727163034/https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/11/realestate/streetscapes-brooklyn-museum-a-touch-of-imperial-rome-gracing-eastern-parkway.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The competition was characterized in the ''Brooklyn Daily Eagle'' as "one of the most important in the history of architecture", as the museum was to contain numerous divisions.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> The museum remained a subdivision of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, along with the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], the [[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]], and the [[Brooklyn Children's Museum]], until these organizations all became independent in the 1970s.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum">{{cite web |title=About: The Museum's Building |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/building |access-date=July 4, 2023 |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |archive-date=February 21, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221160037/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/building |url-status=live }}</ref>

Brooklyn mayor [[Charles A. Schieren]] agreed in January 1895 to issue $300,000 per year in bonds for the Brooklyn Institute museum's construction.<ref name="p573996298">{{cite news |date=January 20, 1895 |title=The Brooklyn Institute's Museum: Result of the Recent Conference With Mayor Schieren |page=14 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|573996298}}}}</ref> Initially, only a single wing and pavilion on the western portion of the museum's site, measuring {{convert|210|by|50|ft}} across, was to be built.<ref name="p574014116">{{cite news |date=February 3, 1895 |title=To Issue the Museum Bonds: Bright Prospects for the Brooklyn Institute's Project Mayor Schieren Ready to Act When Convinced That the Proposed Building Can Be Erected for the Sum Agreed Upon |page=14 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574014116}}}}</ref> Engineers began surveying the site that May<ref name="n127452720">{{Cite news |date=June 1, 1895 |title=Institute Park |pages=6 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-institute-park/127452720/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702025212/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-institute-park/127452720/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127452758">{{Cite news |date=June 1, 1895 |title=Museum Plans |pages=3 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-museum-plans/127452758/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702025214/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-museum-plans/127452758/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and found that the [[bedrock]] under the site was several hundred feet deep, making it impossible to build the foundations on solid rock.<ref name="p574038500">{{cite news |date=May 26, 1895 |title=Getting Ready for the Museum: Ground Soon to Be Broken the Plans About Perfected—one View of the Site |page=16 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574038500}}}}</ref> Nonetheless, the engineers had determined that the gravel [[Cut and fill|fill]] under the site was strong enough to support a building.<ref name="n127452720" /> Construction on the Brooklyn Museum of Arts and Sciences' west wing officially began on September 14, 1895.<ref name="nyt-1895-09-15">{{Cite news |date=September 15, 1895 |title=Brooklyn's New Museum; Ground Broken on Prospect Hill for a Fine Structure |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1895/09/15/archives/brooklyns-new-museum-ground-broken-on-prospect-hill-for-a-fine.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141140/https://www.nytimes.com/1895/09/15/archives/brooklyns-new-museum-ground-broken-on-prospect-hill-for-a-fine.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p574081465">{{cite news |date=September 15, 1895 |title=For Its New Home: Ground Broken on Prospect Hill for the Institute's Museum Park Commissioner Squier Turned the First Sod—speeches by Well-known Men |page=18 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574081465}}}}</ref> A [[groundbreaking]] ceremony for the museum was hosted on December 14 of the same year.<ref name="n127452867">{{Cite news |date=December 14, 1895 |title=Noble Monument |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-noble-monument/127452996/ 6] |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-noble-monument/127452867/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041532/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-noble-monument/127452867/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1895-12-15">{{Cite news |date=December 15, 1895 |title=Mayor Used the Trowel; Mr. Schieren Laid Cornerstone of Art and Science Museum, Brooklyn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1895/12/15/archives/mayor-used-the-trowel-mr-schieren-laid-cornerstone-of-art-and.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702021855/https://www.nytimes.com/1895/12/15/archives/mayor-used-the-trowel-mr-schieren-laid-cornerstone-of-art-and.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Two of the museum's three stories had been completed by April 1896.<ref name="p574167414">{{cite news |date=April 23, 1896 |title=Work on the Museum Building: the Third Story Nearly Reached Making Provision for the Future |page=14 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574167414}}}}</ref>

The Brooklyn Institute museum's building was completed in March 1897 after a sidewalk was built between the museum's entrance and Eastern Parkway.<ref name="p574278771">{{cite news |date=March 7, 1897 |title=The Institute's Museum Nearly Ready |page=A8 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574278771}}}}</ref> The museum's first exhibit was a collection of almost 600 paintings, which had opened to the public on June 1, 1897, several months before the formal opening of the museum.<ref name="p574319190">{{cite news |date=June 2, 1897 |title=Fine Collection of Paintings: the Exhibition at the Institute of Arts and Sciences Opens to-night—J. C. Hoagland's Contributions |page=4 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574319190}}}}</ref> The Brooklyn Institute's museum formally opened on October 2, 1897, and was one of the last major structures built in the city of Brooklyn before the formation of the [[City of Greater New York]] in 1898.<ref name="p574349508">{{cite news |date=October 3, 1897 |title=Devoted to Learning: Dedication of the New Home of the Brooklyn Institute |page=A4 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574349508}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1897-10-03">{{Cite news |date=October 3, 1897 |title=Dedication of the Museum; Completion of a Section of the New Building of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1897/10/03/archives/dedication-of-the-museum-completion-of-a-section-of-the-new.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703182200/https://www.nytimes.com/1897/10/03/archives/dedication-of-the-museum-completion-of-a-section-of-the-new.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===20th century===

==== 1900s and 1910s ====
[[File:Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, Brooklyn, N.Y (NYPL b12647398-70040).tiff|left|thumb|Early 20th century postcard]]The Brooklyn Institute approved the construction of the central entrance pavilion in May 1899,<ref name="p574611963">{{cite news |date=May 13, 1899 |title=Museum Plans Accepted: Brooklyn Institute Trustees Hold Their Annual Meeting a. Augustus Healy Re-elected President—flourishing State of Affairs Imported |page=11 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574611963}}}}</ref> and Hooper requested $600,000 for this addition the next month.<ref name="n127535654">{{Cite news |date=June 9, 1899 |title=The Institute Museum Building |pages=9 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-the-institute-museu/127535654/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703154313/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-the-institute-museu/127535654/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127535725">{{Cite news |date=June 9, 1899 |title=Main Section of the Museum |pages=5 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-main-section-of-the-m/127535725/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703151307/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-main-section-of-the-m/127535725/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The four-story structure was to measure {{Convert|140|by|122|ft}}.<ref name="n127545424">{{Cite news |date=June 4, 1900 |title=New Museum Wing |pages=10 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-museum-wing/127545424/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703195924/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-museum-wing/127545424/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127545591">{{Cite news |date=June 10, 1900 |title=The News of Brooklyn |pages=24 |work=New-York Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-the-news-of-brooklyn/127545591/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703190321/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-the-news-of-brooklyn/127545591/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The central pavilion was to include a 1,250-seat lecture hall in the basement (actually at ground level),<ref name="p574611963" /><ref name="n127544894">{{Cite news |date=August 28, 1904 |title=Institute's New Part |pages=20 |work=New-York Tribune |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-institutes-new-part/127544894/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703195922/https://www.newspapers.com/article/new-york-tribune-institutes-new-part/127544894/ |url-status=live }}</ref> as well as a hall of sculpture on the first floor, which would serve as the museum's main lobby.<ref name="p574611963" /><ref name="n127545424" /> The second story was to contain natural-history exhibits, while the third story was to include paintings.<ref name="n127545424" /> The [[New York State Legislature]] needed to authorize $300,000 in bonds for the pavilion, but they had not done so by the end of 1899.<ref name="n127535886">{{Cite news |date=November 17, 1899 |title=Walton Urges Haste |pages=9 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-walton-urges-haste/127535886/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703155821/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-walton-urges-haste/127535886/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Work on the central wing started in June 1900.<ref name="n127545591" /><ref name="n127545754">{{Cite news |date=June 7, 1900 |title=Ground Broken for New Section of Institute |pages=15 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-ground-broken-f/127545754/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703195920/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-ground-broken-f/127545754/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum's central section was nearly completed by January 1903,<ref name="p571236596">{{cite news |date=January 25, 1903 |title=Will Relieve Institute Museum |page=A7 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|571236596}}}}</ref> but work proceeded slowly due to labor disputes.<ref name="n127544894" />

New York City mayor [[Seth Low]] signed a bill in August 1902, approving $150,000 for the construction of the Brooklyn Institute's eastern wing and pavilion.<ref name="nyt-1902-08-12">{{Cite news |date=August 12, 1902 |title=Mayor Signs Many Measures; New Lighting Plant for Natural History Museum Approved. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1902/08/12/archives/mayor-signs-many-measures-new-lighting-plant-for-natural-history.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703182203/https://www.nytimes.com/1902/08/12/archives/mayor-signs-many-measures-new-lighting-plant-for-natural-history.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The eastern wing cost $344,000 to construct,<ref name="p572067208">{{cite news |date=December 8, 1907 |title=Brooklyn Institute Dedication: Eastern Wing to Be Formally Opened-- Plans for the Exercises |page=C6 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|572067208}}}}</ref> and it officially opened on December 14, 1907.<ref name="p571953389">{{cite news |date=December 15, 1907 |title=Museum Dedicated: Eastern Section of the Brooklyn Institution Opened |page=9 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|571953389}}}}</ref><ref name="n127547506">{{Cite news |date=December 15, 1907 |title=Eastern Wing of Institute Museum Formally Dedicated |pages=4 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-eastern-wing-of-insti/127547506/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703190321/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-eastern-wing-of-insti/127547506/ |url-status=live }}</ref> With the opening of the eastern wing, the museum building had reached one-eighth of its total planned size.<ref name="n127553386">{{Cite news |date=December 7, 1907 |title=Ready to Dedicate New Museum Wing |pages=4 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-ready-to-dedicate-new-museum/127553386/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703223049/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-ready-to-dedicate-new-museum/127553386/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although the museum's collections continued to grow, the New York City government was only willing to give the museum as little funding as necessary for essential maintenance.<ref name="p508046466">{{cite news |date=January 18, 1910 |title=Brooklyn Institute Plans Some Immediate Extensions |page=10 |work=The Christian Science Monitor |id={{ProQuest|508046466}}}}</ref> Several of the institute's donors proposed in 1905 to give $25,000 for the upkeep of an "astronomical observatory" at the Brooklyn Museum.<ref name="n128728967">{{Cite news |date=June 11, 1905 |title=Another $25,000 Gift to Brooklyn Institute |pages=6 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-another-25000-gif/128728967/ |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723182650/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-another-25000-gif/128728967/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n128776960">{{Cite news |date=June 10, 1905 |title=Two Great Gifts to Brooklyn Institute |pages=4 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-two-great-gifts-to-brooklyn/128776960/ |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724142844/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-two-great-gifts-to-brooklyn/128776960/ |url-status=live }}</ref> City officials endorsed the creation of the observatory in 1907.<ref name="n128777045">{{Cite news |date=July 14, 1907 |title=City to Pay $25,000 a Year for Observatory in Prospect Park |pages=17 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-city-to-pay-25000-a/128777045/ |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724142846/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-city-to-pay-25000-a/128777045/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Brooklyn Institute awarded a construction contract for wings F and G, extending south of the central pavilion, to Benedetto & Egan in May 1911.<ref name="n127555770">{{Cite news |date=June 3, 1911 |title=Addition to Museum to Be Built Shortly |pages=4 |work=The Chat |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chat-addition-to-museum-to-be-built/127555770/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703211049/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-chat-addition-to-museum-to-be-built/127555770/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Extending {{convert|120|ft}} south and measuring {{convert|200|ft}} wide, this addition was to contain a central court with a glass roof.<ref name="n127555770" /><ref name="p574758676">{{cite news |date=May 28, 1911 |title=Brooklyn News: Borough Gossip Work to Be Started Soon on New Wing of Brooklyn Museum |page=B8 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574758676}}}}</ref> That July, McKim, Mead & White filed plans for wings F and G.<ref name="p574788579">{{cite news |date=July 16, 1911 |title=Brooklyn News: Borough Gossip New Laboratory and Wing for Brooklyn Museum |page=B4 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|574788579}}}}</ref> The Brooklyn Institute converted the last remaining storage rooms in the eastern wing into galleries in October 1911.<ref name="n127555622">{{Cite news |date=October 18, 1911 |title=Brooklyn Institute Shows Great Growth |pages=8 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-instit/127555622/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703204044/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-instit/127555622/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127555669">{{Cite news |date=October 19, 1911 |title=Brooklyn Institute Valued at $2,937,046 |pages=18 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-institute-valued-at/127555669/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703211049/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-institute-valued-at/127555669/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The next month, a temporary access road was built from [[Flatbush Avenue]] to the rear of the building.<ref name="n127556256">{{Cite news |date=November 22, 1911 |title=... Work on Road Back of Museum |pages=6 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-work-on-road-back/127556256/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703223050/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-work-on-road-back/127556256/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Wills & Martin, one of the firms that had been hired to erect the new wings, declared bankruptcy in November 1913.<ref name="n127556455">{{Cite news |date=November 11, 1913 |title=Delay on Museum Wing |pages=1 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-delay-on-museum/127556455/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703223052/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-delay-on-museum/127556455/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Work stopped completely in November 1914,<ref name="n127745197">{{Cite news |date=May 28, 1923 |title=Request for Funds to Finish Museum Is Again Refused |pages=2 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-request-for-fun/127745197/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708004745/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-request-for-fun/127745197/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and the incomplete structures started to deteriorate.<ref name="n127557342" /> Because of the lack of space in the building, the lobby and auditorium were being used to exhibit artwork. The Brooklyn Institute had been forced to decline some donations of artwork, as the works could not be displayed, while other works of art had to be placed in storage.<ref name="n127557342">{{Cite news |date=July 16, 1916 |title=Art Treasures Lost to Museum by Delay on Finishing Wing |pages=13 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-art-treasures-l/127557342/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703211050/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-art-treasures-l/127557342/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== 1920s to 1940s ====
By 1920, the [[New York City Subway]]'s [[Eastern Parkway–Brooklyn Museum station|Institute Park station]] had opened outside the Brooklyn Museum, greatly improving access to the once-isolated museum from [[Manhattan]] and the other boroughs.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/10/11/103481051.pdf|title=Subway Stations Opened: Last Three in Eastern Parkway Branch of I.R.T. Put Into Service|date=October 11, 1920|work=The New York Times|access-date=December 20, 2015|archive-date=March 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326101531/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1920/10/11/103481051.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 1922, governor [[Nathan L. Miller]] signed legislation authorizing the New York City government to issue bonds to fund wings F and G of the Brooklyn Museum.<ref name="n127558242">{{Cite news |date=April 7, 1922 |title=Bill for Central Library and Museum Wing Bond Issue Signed by Miller |pages=4 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-bill-for-central-library-and/127558242/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703223100/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-bill-for-central-library-and/127558242/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[New York City Board of Estimate]] refused to approve the Brooklyn Institute trustees' request for $875,000,<ref name="n127558437">{{Cite news |date=July 13, 1922 |title=Delay Museum Wing Until Late in Fall |pages=3 |work=The Standard Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-delay-museum-wing-unt/127558437/ |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703223058/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-delay-museum-wing-unt/127558437/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and mayor [[John Francis Hylan]] also blocked the funding.<ref name="n127745094">{{Cite news |date=May 13, 1923 |title=Hylan Holds Up $950,000 Fund for Brooklyn Museum |pages=24 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-hylan-holds-up/127745094/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708013317/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-hylan-holds-up/127745094/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Hylan changed his mind after visiting the museum, and the Board of Estimate appropriated $1.05 million for the new wings.<ref name="n127746541">{{Cite news |date=June 4, 1923 |title=Estimate Board Votes $1,050,000 for Boro Museum |pages=1 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-estimate-board/127746541/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707164445/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-estimate-board/127746541/ |url-status=live }}</ref> McKim, Mead & White drew up new plans for wings F and G; by that September, [[New York City Department of Parks and Recreation]] (NYC Parks) was about to award contracts for the wings.<ref name="n127746255">{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1923 |title=To Resume Work on Museum When Board Approves |pages=37 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-to-resume-work/127746255/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707170028/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-to-resume-work/127746255/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127746120">{{Cite news |date=September 9, 1923 |title=Brooklyn Museum's New Wings Will Soon Be Finished; Great Art Treasures Ready to Fill Extension |pages=10 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-museums-new-wings/127746120/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707221756/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-museums-new-wings/127746120/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A picture gallery opened at the museum in November 1925.<ref name="nyt-1925-11-15">{{Cite news |date=November 15, 1925 |title=American Paintings at Brooklyn Museum; Exhibition of Oils by Native Artist Will Be Feature of Opening of New Wing. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1925/11/15/archives/american-paintings-at-brooklyn-museum-exhibition-of-oils-by-native.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703205306/https://www.nytimes.com/1925/11/15/archives/american-paintings-at-brooklyn-museum-exhibition-of-oils-by-native.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n128526319">{{Cite news |last=Appleton Read |first=Helen |date=November 22, 1925 |title=Brooklyn Museum Inaugurates New Wing With American Exhibition |pages=72 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128526319/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230656/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128526319/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The next month, museum officials dedicated the Ethnological Gallery, which was nicknamed "Rainbow House";<ref name="p1677044361">{{cite magazine |last=Crawford |first=M D C |date=December 8, 1925 |title=New Ethnological Gallery Opens In Brooklyn Museum: Feeling Of Lightness And Charm And Virility Of Color Feature Division, Termed "Rainbow House" By Curator Stewart Culin |magazine=Women's Wear |volume=31 |issue=135 |pages=2 |id={{ProQuest|1677044361}}}}</ref><ref name="n128526988">{{Cite news |date=December 9, 1925 |title=New Ethnological Gallery Dedicated |pages=3 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-new-ethnologica/128526988/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230654/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-new-ethnologica/128526988/ |url-status=live }}</ref> the gallery was designed by curator [[Stewart Culin]].<ref name="nyt-1926-11-28">{{Cite news |date=November 28, 1926 |title=Adds New Charm to Brooklyn Museum; Rainbow House Is Now All That Its Name Implies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1926/11/28/archives/adds-new-charm-to-brooklyn-museum-rainbow-house-is-now-all-that-its.html |access-date=July 19, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230657/https://www.nytimes.com/1926/11/28/archives/adds-new-charm-to-brooklyn-museum-rainbow-house-is-now-all-that-its.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A Japanese art gallery opened at the museum in April 1927,<ref name="nyt-1927-04-24">{{Cite news |last=E.l.c |date=April 24, 1927 |title=Japanese Art; New Gallery at Brooklyn Museum Holds Rich Display |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/04/24/archives/japanese-art-new-gallery-at-brooklyn-museum-holds-rich-display.html |access-date=July 19, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230654/https://www.nytimes.com/1927/04/24/archives/japanese-art-new-gallery-at-brooklyn-museum-holds-rich-display.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the museum's Swiss Gothic, German, and Venetian galleries opened that May.<ref name=n128622328>{{Cite news|date=May 8, 1927|title=Museum Opens 3 Permanent Art Galleries|pages=69|work=Times Union|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-museum-opens-3-permanent-art/128622328/|access-date=July 21, 2023|archive-date=July 21, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721180317/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-museum-opens-3-permanent-art/128622328/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="n128527852">{{Cite news |date=May 8, 1927 |title=Three New Galleries Open at Brooklyn Museum Today |pages=73 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-three-new-galle/128527852/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230659/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-three-new-galle/128527852/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

Construction of the Brooklyn Museum stalled in 1928 after years of attempts to complete it. At the time, only 28 of the 80 proposed statues atop the building's facade had been installed, and the main north–south corridor was not complete.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> Nineteen American [[period room]]s opened at the museum at the end of 1929.<ref name="n128528394">{{Cite news |last=Appleton Read |first=Helen |date=December 1, 1929 |title=An All-American Opening |pages=64 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-an-all-american/128528394/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230657/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-an-all-american/128528394/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In May 1934, NYC Parks approved plans for the removal of the main entrance steps,<ref name="n127640281" /> which were replaced by ground-level doors.<ref name="n127640281">{{Cite news |date=May 10, 1934 |title=Rebuilt Museum Entrance Will Not Have Long Steps |pages=3 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-rebuilt-museum-entrance-will/127640281/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705022615/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-rebuilt-museum-entrance-will/127640281/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p1223283956">{{cite news |date=October 10, 1937 |title=Rebuilt Museum To Mark Eve of Brooklyn Work: Public to View $1,000,000 Project This Week at Series of Special Events |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=A5 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1223283956}}}}</ref> The project also included the construction of two galleries next to the lobby,<ref name="p1222340168">{{cite news |date=October 4, 1935 |title=Brooklyn Museum Opens New Entrance Tonight: Park Commissioner Moses and Other Officers to Attend |page=20 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1222340168}}}}</ref> as well as new landscaping and parking lots.<ref name="p1223283956" /> This work was carried out by [[Public Works Administration]] laborers.<ref>{{Cite news |date=October 4, 1935 |title=500 PWA Workers at Museum Stage 3-Hour Pay Strike |pages=4 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-500-pwa-workers-at-museum-st/127640754/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705022613/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-500-pwa-workers-at-museum-st/127640754/ |url-status=live }}</ref> A gallery dedicated to living artists' work opened in February 1935,<ref name="n128528513">{{Cite news |last=Byck |first=Lester L. |date=February 10, 1935 |title=Brooklyn Museum's Gallery Devoted to Work of Living Artists Opens Soon |pages=3 |work=Times Union |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-museums-gallery-de/128528513/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719230658/https://www.newspapers.com/article/times-union-brooklyn-museums-gallery-de/128528513/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and a Persian art gallery opened two months later.<ref name="nyt-1935-04-08">{{Cite news |last=H.d |date=April 8, 1935 |title=Brooklyn Museum Shows Persian Art; New Gallery Marks Long Step Forward in Exhibition Methods of Institution. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/04/08/archives/brooklyn-museum-shows-persian-art-new-gallery-marks-long-step.html |access-date=July 19, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719234359/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/04/08/archives/brooklyn-museum-shows-persian-art-new-gallery-marks-long-step.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n128530127">{{Cite news |date=April 7, 1935 |title=Persian Gallery at Museum Opens With Loan Exhibition |pages=39 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-persian-gallery/128530127/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720001406/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-persian-gallery/128530127/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The remodeled entrance was officially dedicated on October 5, 1935.<ref name="p1222340168" /><ref name="n128529587">{{Cite news |date=October 5, 1935 |title=New Entrances and Hall of Brooklyn Museum Opened to Public |pages=3 |work=The Brooklyn Citizen |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-entrances-and-h/128529587/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720001405/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-citizen-new-entrances-and-h/128529587/ |url-status=live }}</ref> That December, the museum's medieval art gallery opened.<ref name="n128529407">{{Cite news |date=December 6, 1935 |title=Brooklyn Museum Exhibits Old Art |pages=2 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128529407/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720001407/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128529407/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1935-12-07">{{Cite news |date=December 7, 1935 |title=Rare Show Marks Gallery Opening; Art on Display in Medieval Room of Brooklyn Museum Bridges 1,000 Years. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/07/archives/rare-show-marks-gallery-opening-art-on-display-in-medieval-room-of.html |access-date=July 19, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230719234357/https://www.nytimes.com/1935/12/07/archives/rare-show-marks-gallery-opening-art-on-display-in-medieval-room-of.html |url-status=live }}</ref> A gallery for industrial art was also proposed behind the western wing but was not built.<ref name="p1653382463">{{cite magazine |date=August 21, 1935 |title=Industrial Wing For B'klyn Museum Planned To Raise City's Style Prestige: Another Aim Of $1,400,000 Project Is To Arouse Pride In New York Products—Stimulus To Industrial Art Expected To Have Beneficial Effect In Bringing Business To Local Market |magazine=Women's Wear Daily |volume=51 |issue=37 |pages=1, 39 |id={{ProQuest|1653382463}}}}</ref> The museum's remodeling was completed in October 1937. Several collections, including Egyptian and Assyrian art, Renaissance art, and textiles were displayed to the public for the first time.<ref name="p1223283570">{{cite news |date=October 17, 1937 |title='Museum Week' Opening Draws 2,000 in Kings: Brooklyn Reconstruction Took 4 Years to Finish and Cost $1,000,000 Special Program Is Set Concerts, Lectures, Exhibits Scheduled for the Week |work=New York Herald Tribune |page=D14 |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1223283570}}}}</ref>

By early 1938, museum officials sought more than $300,000 for repairs to the museum building,<ref name="p1243640786">{{cite news |date=January 14, 1938 |title=Brooklyn Museum Seeks $301,500 for Repairs: $287,138 Sought to Begin New Children's Building |page=15 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1243640786}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1938-04-11">{{Cite news |date=April 11, 1938 |title=2 Museums Found in Decrepit State; Neglect and Decay Reported at the Brooklyn and the Children's by Youtz |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/11/archives/2-museums-found-in-decrepit-state-neglect-and-decay-reported-at-the.html |access-date=October 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and then-director Philip Newell Youtz said that parts of the building were crumbling.<ref name="nyt-1938-04-11" /> The [[Brooklyn Museum Art School]], formerly a part of the [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], was moved to the Brooklyn Museum in 1941.<ref name="nyt-1984-12-22">{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Douglas C. |date=December 22, 1984 |title=Museum Closing Art School |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/22/arts/museum-closing-art-school.html |access-date=November 9, 2020 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=February 8, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220208024932/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/12/22/arts/museum-closing-art-school.html |url-status=live }}</ref> An art distribution center sponsored by the [[Works Progress Administration]] opened on the museum's sixth floor the same year.<ref name="p1320074766">{{cite news |date=February 15, 1941 |title=W.P.A. Art Unit Opens Branch For Brooklyn: Institutions To Be Enabled to Acquire Paintings by Paying Cost of Materials Trustees of New Brooklyn Library Take Oath of Office |page=9A |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1320074766}}}}</ref><ref name="n128619660">{{Cite news |date=January 30, 1941 |title=Art Distribution Center to Be Opened in Boro |pages=19 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-art-distributio/128619660/ |access-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721180315/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-art-distributio/128619660/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The department store chain [[Abraham & Straus]] donated $50,000 in 1948 for the establishment of a "laboratory of industrial design" at the Brooklyn Museum.<ref name="p1564926735">{{cite magazine |date=April 2, 1948 |title=A & S Gives Brooklyn Museum $50,000 for Design Project: Part 1: Work Starts Next Month on Edward C. Blum Laboratory, With Formal Opening Scheduled for Oct. 5. |magazine=Women's Wear Daily |volume=76 |issue=65 |pages=38 |id={{ProQuest|1564926735}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1948-04-02">{{Cite news |date=April 2, 1948 |title=Brooklyn Museum Gets a $50,000 Gift; Laboratory of Industrial Design to Be Established With Fund Given by Department Store |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/02/archives/brooklyn-museum-gets-a-50000-gift-laboratory-of-industrial-design.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174128/https://www.nytimes.com/1948/04/02/archives/brooklyn-museum-gets-a-50000-gift-laboratory-of-industrial-design.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By the following year, Brooklyn Institute officials sought to expand the museum as part of a "vast cultural program".<ref name="n128621219">{{Cite news |date=January 11, 1949 |title=Museum Plans Spur Boro Cultural Center |pages=3 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-museum-plans-sp/128621219/ |access-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174128/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-museum-plans-sp/128621219/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1949-10-09">{{Cite news |date=October 9, 1949 |title=Brooklyn Seeking Cultural Center; City and the Institute of Arts and Sciences Plan Program Around Central Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/10/09/archives/brooklyn-seeking-cultural-center-city-and-the-institute-of-arts-and.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174128/https://www.nytimes.com/1949/10/09/archives/brooklyn-seeking-cultural-center-city-and-the-institute-of-arts-and.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The plans involved an annex with a 2,500-seat auditorium behind the west wing, which was planned to cost $500,000, as well as a general renovation of existing facilities, which was to cost $1.5 million.<ref name="nyt-1949-10-09" /> A new 400-seat lecture hall opened at the museum that September, within space formerly occupied by two Egyptian galleries.<ref name="nyt-1949-09-07">{{Cite news |date=September 7, 1949 |title=Brooklyn Museum's New Lecture Hall To Be Opened Today for Americanists |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1949/09/07/archives/brooklyn-museums-new-lecture-hall-to-be-opened-today-for.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174123/https://www.nytimes.com/1949/09/07/archives/brooklyn-museums-new-lecture-hall-to-be-opened-today-for.html |url-status=live }}</ref> To attract visitors, the museum expanded its educational programs greatly in the late 1940s.<ref name="nyt-1951-02-09">{{Cite news |last=Knox |first=Sanka |date=February 9, 1951 |title=Finances Worry Brooklyn Museum; More City and Public Aid Required; Moses Study Offers Hope Jansen Pledges Aid |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/02/09/archives/finances-worry-brooklyn-museum-more-city-and-public-aid-required.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174128/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/02/09/archives/finances-worry-brooklyn-museum-more-city-and-public-aid-required.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== 1950s and 1960s ====
[[File:Brooklyn Botanic Garden New York May 2015 002.jpg|thumb|Rear of the museum building, expanded in the 1950s]]
Brooklyn Institute officials announced plans in 1951 to repair the Brooklyn Museum as part of the institute's long-term plan to convert the museum into a cultural center.<ref name="n8922607">{{Cite news |date=June 22, 1951 |title=Academy of Music Saved for Public |pages=1, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-academy-of-musi/8922607/ 11] |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-academy-of-musi/128696118/ |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723010732/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-academy-of-musi/128696118/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum's Egyptian galleries began undergoing renovations the same year.<ref name="p1324187503">{{cite news |date=March 8, 1951 |title=Egyptian Galleries Ready At the Brooklyn Museum |page=21 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1324187503}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1952-01-06">{{Cite news |date=January 6, 1952 |title=Brooklyn Museum Expands Program; Attendance Up in Fiscal Year – Art School Gains and Gallery Is Renovated |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/06/archives/brooklyn-museum-expands-program-attendance-up-in-fiscal-year-art.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005230/https://www.nytimes.com/1952/01/06/archives/brooklyn-museum-expands-program-attendance-up-in-fiscal-year-art.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The renovation of the Egyptian galleries, the first phase of the museum's $3.5 million overhaul, was finished in November 1953.<ref name="n128697395">{{Cite news |date=November 17, 1953 |title=Boro Museum Modernizes Fabulous Egyptian Galleries |pages=9 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-boro-museum-mod/128697395/ |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723010905/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-boro-museum-mod/128697395/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1953-11-17">{{Cite news |date=November 17, 1953 |title=Egypt's Relics Get Up-to-date Setting; Brooklyn Museum's Remodeled Galleries Will Be Opened to Public Tomorrow |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1953/11/17/archives/egypts-relics-get-uptodate-setting-brooklyn-museums-remodeled.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005233/https://www.nytimes.com/1953/11/17/archives/egypts-relics-get-uptodate-setting-brooklyn-museums-remodeled.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Brown, Lawford & Forbes designed a rear annex for the museum in 1955.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> The museum's furniture, sculpture, and watercolor galleries reopened in 1957 following the second stage of the renovation.<ref name="nyt-1957-02-19">{{Cite news |date=February 19, 1957 |title=Brooklyn Museum, Renovated at 60, Shows Off Youthful New Look |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/19/archives/brooklyn-museum-renovated-at-60-shows-off-youthful-new-look.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702030131/https://www.nytimes.com/1957/02/19/archives/brooklyn-museum-renovated-at-60-shows-off-youthful-new-look.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p1326289458">{{cite news |last=Beckley |first=Paul V. |date=February 19, 1957 |title=New Galleries Opened At Brooklyn Museum |page=A1 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326289458}}}}</ref> The rear annex contained a new stairway,<ref name="p1326289458" /> which led to new galleries on the fourth through sixth stories of the center section.<ref name="n129431381">{{Cite news |date=January 28, 1957 |title=New Galleries to Open |pages=333 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-new-galleries-to-open/129431381/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}}</ref> By the late 1950s, the museum was running low on funds, with director Edgar C. Schenck blaming the museum's fiscal woes on Manhattan residents' unwillingness to cross the [[East River]] to visit Brooklyn.<ref name="The New York Times 1958 z105">{{cite web |date=January 26, 1958 |title='Complex' Bothers Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/01/26/archives/complex-bothers-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Due to a shortage of security guards, the museum was forced to close some galleries part-time.<ref name="The New York Times 1958 i269">{{cite web |date=October 4, 1958 |title=Guard Shortage to Hurt Museum; Hours of Some Galleries at Brooklyn Institution Cut Beginning Monday |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1958/10/04/archives/guard-shortage-to-hurt-museum-hours-of-some-galleries-at-brooklyn.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Another Egyptian gallery opened in April 1959,<ref name="nyt-1959-04-14">{{Cite news |last=Knox |first=Sanka |date=April 14, 1959 |title=Museum Here Reopens Gallery Of Egypt's Art From 4000 B. C. |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/04/14/archives/museum-here-reopens-gallery-of-egypts-art-from-4000-b-c.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723011543/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/04/14/archives/museum-here-reopens-gallery-of-egypts-art-from-4000-b-c.html |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=April 15, 1959 |title=An Old-Timer Intrigues Diane |pages=456 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-an-old-timer-intrigues-diane/129431811/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}}</ref> and a "pattern library" for teaching opened that July.<ref name="p1327054968">{{cite news |date=July 22, 1959 |title=New Library Of Patterns In Brooklyn |page=A2 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1327054968}}}}</ref><ref name="p1565234557">{{cite magazine |date=July 22, 1959 |title=Brooklyn Museum Gets Gift Of Pattern Library |magazine=Women's Wear Daily |volume=99 |issue=16 |pages=42 |id={{ProQuest|1565234557}}}}</ref> A continued shortage of security guards forced the Brooklyn Museum to close two days a week at the beginning of 1961;<ref name="The New York Times 1960 i358">{{cite web |date=December 22, 1960 |title=Brooklyn Museum To Reduce Week In Staff Shortage |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/12/22/archives/brooklyn-museum-to-reduce-week-in-staff-shortage.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the museum went back to seven-day operations in June 1961 after the city provided money for additional guards.<ref name="The New York Times 1961 w038">{{cite web |date=June 29, 1961 |title=2 Museums to Be Open Daily As City Increases Their Funds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1961/06/29/archives/2-museums-to-be-open-daily-as-city-increases-their-funds.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> To attract visitors, the museum began providing a larger variety of programs and adding interactive exhibits and programming.<ref name="p1326285567">{{cite news |last=Bird |first=Robert S. |date=February 20, 1962 |title=There's a Cultural Boom in Brooklyn |page=10 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326285567}}}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum announced in 1964 that it would build a special-exhibit gallery on the first floor and an open study/storage gallery on the fifth floor.<ref name="n129432824">{{Cite news |date=June 26, 1964 |title=Plan to Expand Art Gallery of Brooklyn Museum |pages=7 |work=Brooklyn Record |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/brooklyn-record-plan-to-expand-art-galle/129432824/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1964-06-23">{{Cite news |date=June 23, 1964 |title=Museum is Adding New Art Gallery; 1,000 More Paintings to Go on Display in Brooklyn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/23/archives/museum-is-adding-new-art-gallery-1000-more-paintings-to-go-on.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723011540/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/06/23/archives/museum-is-adding-new-art-gallery-1000-more-paintings-to-go-on.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Hall of the Americas opened on the museum's first floor the following May.<ref name="n129432484">{{Cite news |date=May 2, 1965 |title=Art of Indians on Display at Boro Museum |pages=203 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-art-of-indians-on-display-at/129432484/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1965 p545">{{cite web |date=May 2, 1965 |title=Indian Art at Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1965/05/02/archives/indian-art-at-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> A sculpture garden, consisting of architectural details salvaged from demolished buildings across New York City, opened at the museum in April 1966.<ref name="The New York Times 1966 h933">{{cite web |last=Knox |first=Sanka |date=April 23, 1966 |title=New Life is Found for Ex-wreckage; Museum Garden a Haven for Art From Razed Buildings |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1966/04/23/archives/new-life-is-found-for-exwreckage-museum-garden-a-haven-for-art-from.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="n129433299">{{Cite news |date=April 27, 1966 |title=Garden of Memories |pages=102 |work=Newsday (Nassau Edition) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-garden-of-memor/129433299/ |access-date=August 4, 2023}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art began coordinating joint programs and exhibitions in 1967.<ref name="The New York Times 1967 n786">{{cite web |last=Esterow |first=Milton |date=August 4, 1967 |title=Metropolitan and Brooklyn Museums Pool Talent |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1967/08/04/archives/metropolitan-and-brooklyn-museums-pool-talent.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

By the late 1960s, the museum was again facing a funding shortage; several galleries had been temporarily closed due to a lack of money, and its director Thomas Buechner was considering closing the museum two days a week.<ref name="The New York Times 1968 p720">{{cite web |last=Esterow |first=Milton |date=June 20, 1968 |title=Brooklyn Museum Considering a Five-Day Week; Director Says City Has Not Provided Enough Money Some Programs Curtailed by the Shortage of Funds |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/06/20/archives/brooklyn-museum-considering-a-fiveday-week-director-says-city-has.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Brooklyn Museum officials also wanted to hire additional security guards to deter crime.<ref name="The New York Times 1969 p185">{{cite web |last=Burks |first=Edward C. |date=December 12, 1969 |title=Museums Seeking Guards To Stem Mounting Crime |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/12/12/archives/museums-seeking-guards-to-stem-mounting-crime.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum's Community Gallery, exhibiting black New Yorkers' art, opened in October 1968<ref name="The New York Times 1968 k863">{{cite web |last=Keneas |first=Alexander |date=September 30, 1968 |title=The Brooklyn Museum's New Community Gallery Focuses on Black America |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1968/09/30/archives/the-brooklyn-museums-new-community-gallery-focuses-on-black-america.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p226784000">{{Cite news |date=October 5, 1968 |title=New Community Gallery Opens To Enthused Throng |page=23 |work=New York Amsterdam News |id={{proQuest|226784000}}}}</ref> following advocacy from Federated Institutes of Cultural Enrichment (FICE), a coalition of Brooklyn-based arts organizations.<ref name="Anagnost 2020" /> The gallery occupied a narrow corridor at ground level.<ref name="p147830601">{{cite news |last=Stevens |first=Elisabeth |date=May 10, 1970 |title=Brooklyn Museum Brings Culture to That Tree |page=F4 |newspaper=The Washington Post |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|147830601}}}}</ref> Henri Ghent, the director of the Community Gallery, estimated in 1970 that "perhaps 100,000" additional patrons had been attracted to the museum after the gallery opened,<ref name="p147830601" /><ref name="nyt-1970-02-04">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=February 4, 1970 |title=Brooklyn Gallery In Fiscal Squeeze |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/04/archives/brooklyn-gallery-in-fiscal-squeeze-financial-problems.html |access-date=October 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> including black patrons who had never before visited a museum.<ref name="nyt-1970-02-04" />

==== 1970s and early 1980s ====
[[File:Liberty at Brooklyn Museum jeh.JPG|thumb|Replica of the [[Replicas of the Statue of Liberty|Statue of Liberty]] (''Liberty Enlightening the World'') in back lot]]
The Brooklyn Museum continued to experience financial shortfalls in the early 1970s.<ref name="nyt-1970-02-04" /> Due to a shortage of security guards, in mid-1971, museum officials announced that they would close the museum two days per week, allowing all galleries to remain open even with limited security.<ref name="p148166722">{{cite news |date=May 25, 1971 |title=Brooklyn Museum Troubles |page=B11 |work=The Washington Post, Times Herald |issn=0190-8286 |id={{ProQuest|148166722}}}}</ref><ref name="nyt-1971-05-24">{{Cite news |date=May 24, 1971 |title=5-Day Week Scheduled For Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/05/24/archives/5day-week-scheduled-for-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=October 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The museum also reopened its 23 period rooms that October after a yearlong closure,<ref name="n132868952">{{Cite news |last=Herzig |first=Doris |date=October 26, 1971 |title=Art Deco Makes It—to the Museum |pages=84, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-art-deco-makes/132868952/ 85] |work=Newsday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-art-deco-makes/132868918/ |access-date=October 4, 2023}}</ref> and they also opened a new period room, themed to a private study.<ref name="n132868952" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=October 22, 1971 |title=He Gave His Favorite Room to Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/10/22/archives/he-gave-his-favorite-room-to-museum.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Officials planned to move the Community Gallery to a dedicated space adjoining the museum;<ref name="nyt-1971-09-12">{{Cite news |last=Canaday |first=John |date=September 12, 1971 |title=The Grand Old Lady of Eastern Parkway |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/09/12/archives/the-grand-old-lady-of-eastern-parkway.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> the gallery was popular among guests but did not have enough funding from the museum itself.<ref name="p226720450">{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Dick |date=October 9, 1971 |title=Community Gallery needs funds to continue at Museum: Museum's Gallery exhibit attracts gala audience |page=D1 |work=New York Amsterdam News |id={{proQuest|226720450}}}}</ref> By late 1973, twenty percent of the museum's staff professionals had resigned amid a dispute involving director [[Duncan F. Cameron]]'s firing of another employee,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Gordon |first=Leah |date=December 2, 1973 |title=A 'Family Quarrel' Breaks Out in Brooklyn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/02/archives/a-family-quarrel-breaks-out-in-brooklyn-brooklyn-museum-quarrel.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> eventually prompting Cameron's own resignation that year.<ref name="The New York Times 1973 i686">{{cite news |date=December 19, 1973 |title=Duncan R. Cameron Resigns As Brooklyn Museum Director |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/19/archives/duncan-f-cameron-resigns-as-brooklyn-museum-director.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152211/https://www.nytimes.com/1973/12/19/archives/duncan-f-cameron-resigns-as-brooklyn-museum-director.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p1240163688">{{Cite news |date=December 21, 1973 |title=Bitter power struggle: Director quits Brooklyn Museum |page=15 |work=The Globe and Mail |id={{ProQuest|1240163688}}}}</ref> Further staff disputes complicated the search for a replacement director,<ref name="nyt-1974-05-16">{{Cite news |last=Ferretti |first=Fred |date=May 16, 1974 |title=Dissension Flares Again At the Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/05/16/archives/dissension-flares-again-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and many employees went on strike in 1974 because they wanted to form a labor union.<ref name="n132871383">{{Cite news |date=March 4, 1974 |title=Museum is Picketed by Friendly Staffers |pages=273 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-museum-is-picketed-by-friendl/132871383/ |access-date=October 4, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Perlmutter |first=Emanuel |date=March 4, 1974 |title=Brooklyn Museum Pickets Seek Union |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/04/archives/brooklyn-museum-pickets-seek-union.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

By the mid-1970s, there were plans to split the [[Brooklyn Children's Museum]] and the Brooklyn Museum Art School from the Brooklyn Museum.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Johnston |first=Laurie |date=March 6, 1974 |title=Brooklyn Museum Names Six To Begin Search for a Director |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/03/06/archives/brooklyn-museum-names-six-to-begin-search-for-a-director-mostly.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> At the time, the museum received $1.5 million per year from the city.<ref name="nyt-1973-11-27">{{Cite news |last=Ferretti |first=Fred |date=November 27, 1973 |title=Brooklyn Museum Split Over Policies of Director |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/27/archives/brooklyn-museum-split-over-policies-of-director-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Four galleries for Korean and Japanese art opened at the museum in October 1974,<ref name="nyt-1974-10-13">{{Cite news |last=Shirey |first=David L. |date=October 13, 1974 |title=Oriental Galleries Opened |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/10/13/archives/oriental-galleries-opened-japanese-area-created.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="n132872439">{{Cite news |date=October 7, 1974 |title=Boro Briefs |pages=246 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-boro-briefs/132872439/ |access-date=October 4, 2023}}</ref> and the African art galleries reopened in December 1976 following an expansion and renovation.<ref name="p226616695">{{Cite news |date=December 18, 1976 |title=Brooklyn Museum Installs New African Collection |page=B2 |work=New York Amsterdam News |id={{proQuest|226616695}}}}</ref><ref name="p122780877">{{cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=December 24, 1976 |title=Art People |page=51 |work=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331 |id={{ProQuest|122780877}}}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum also began renovating 21 American [[period room]]s in 1976.<ref name="nyt-1984-10-18">{{Cite news |last=Reif |first=Rita |date=October 18, 1984 |title=Brooklyn Museum: a Transformation of 7 Period Rooms |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/garden/brooklyn-museum-a-transformation-of-7-period-rooms.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141140/https://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/18/garden/brooklyn-museum-a-transformation-of-7-period-rooms.html |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Following a 1978 investigation into some of the museum's acquisitions, state attorney general [[Louis J. Lefkowitz]] recommended that the museum implement "a comprehensive code of ethics".<ref name="nyt-1978-06-23">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=June 23, 1978 |title=Lefkowitz Urges Change At Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/06/23/archives/lefkowitz-urges-change-at-brooklyn-museum-other-sales-investigated.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The same year, the Brooklyn Museum partnered with [[Designgroup]] and the Egyptian government to restore the [[Cairo Museum]]'s collection.<ref name="n132919426">{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Amei |date=August 6, 1978 |title=Forging the Brooklyn-Cairo connection |pages=89, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-artful-diplomac/132921172/ 90] |work=Newsday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-nassau-edition-forging-the-bro/132919426/ |access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> Due to budget cuts, the Brooklyn Museum eliminated its Middle Eastern art division in 1979,<ref name="The New York Times 1979 p490">{{cite web |date=July 9, 1979 |title=Cutbacks Voted by Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/09/archives/cutbacks-voted-by-brooklyn-museum-international-reputation.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152214/https://www.nytimes.com/1979/07/09/archives/cutbacks-voted-by-brooklyn-museum-international-reputation.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> despite the fact that the museum had frequently applied for federal grants in the preceding years, most of which had been approved from 1976 to 1978.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=December 5, 1979 |title=New York Cultural Units Called Lax in Grant Bids |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/05/archives/new-york-cultural-units-called-lax-in-grant-bids-2-museums-score.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Two of the museum's period rooms reopened in 1980 following a renovation.<ref name="nyt-1980-03-23">{{Cite news |date=March 23, 1980 |title=Period Rooms to Reopen at the Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/03/23/archives/period-rooms-to-reopen-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702030135/https://www.nytimes.com/1980/03/23/archives/period-rooms-to-reopen-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By then, director Michael Botwinick was considering several measures to reduce the museum's budgetary shortfalls, including halving the number of art classes, closing the museum during the workweek, and hosting fewer exhibits per year.<ref name="n132921778">{{Cite news |date=April 25, 1980 |title=Museum budget picture far from pretty |pages=488 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-museum-budget-picture-far-fro/132921778/ |access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> At the time, the museum received 31 percent of its funds from the city, a higher percentage than other New York City museums;<ref name="n132921778" /> the city still owned the building itself.<ref name="nyt-1982-11-28">{{Cite news |last=Dunlap |first=David W. |date=November 28, 1982 |title=City Budget Cuts Affect Cultural Institutions |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/28/nyregion/city-budget-cuts-affect-cultural-institutions.html |access-date=October 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> After Robert Buck became director in 1983, he began hosting additional art classes, attracting members, and raising money for the museum,<ref name="nyt-1985-01-22" /> which struggled to compete with more famous institutions in Manhattan.<ref name="p2779645052">{{cite news |last=Brenna |first=Susan |date=January 20, 1988 |title=Culture Watching a Work of Art, Brooklyn Style the Brooklyn Museum Takes Dramatic Steps to Bring New and Suburban Visitors to Its Underappreciated Collection |page=3 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|277964505}}}}</ref> In 1984, the museum completed the renovations of its last period rooms<ref name="nyt-1984-10-18" /><ref name="n132923147">{{Cite news |date=November 1, 1984 |title=Canarsie's Schenck House Period Rooms On Display Now at Brooklyn Museum |pages=3, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/canarsie-courier-schenck/132923166/ 52] |work=Canarsie Courier |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/canarsie-courier-canarsies-schenck-hous/132923147/ |access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> and opened a gallery for "early-19th-century decorative arts".<ref name="n132923147" /> The unprofitable Brooklyn Museum Art School was closed the same year,<ref name="nyt-1984-12-22" /> and the museum obtained $14 million in city funding to upgrade the climate-control systems.<ref name="nyt-1985-01-22">{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Douglas C. |date=January 22, 1985 |title=Changing Face of Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/22/arts/changing-face-of-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707163241/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/01/22/arts/changing-face-of-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum resumed Monday operations in late 1984 after receiving additional city funding,<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite news|date=September 22, 1984|title=Brooklyn Museum Adds a Day to Schedule|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/09/22/arts/brooklyn-museum-adds-a-day-to-schedule.html|access-date=October 5, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}|{{Cite news|date=September 18, 1984|title=The Brooklyn Museum Adds an Extra Day to Its Weekly Schedule|pages=130|work=Newsday|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-the-brooklyn-museum-adds-an-extr/132923096/|access-date=October 5, 2023}}}}</ref> and it started running TV advertisements in 1985.<ref name="nyt-1985-05-22">{{Cite news |last=Dougherty |first=Philip H. |date=May 22, 1985 |title=Advertising; Brooklyn Museum Plans Paid TV Spots |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/22/business/advertising-brooklyn-museum-plans-paid-tv-spots.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162034/https://www.nytimes.com/1985/05/22/business/advertising-brooklyn-museum-plans-paid-tv-spots.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Mid-1980s and 1990s ====
[[File:Museu do brooklyn (16235126548).jpg|left|thumb|An exhibition hall in the museum]]
The Brooklyn Museum announced a master plan in March 1986.<ref name="nyt-1986-03-18">{{Cite news |last=McGill |first=Douglas C. |date=March 18, 1986 |title=The Brooklyn Museum Plans to Double Its Size |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/18/arts/the-brooklyn-museum-plans-to-double-its-size.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162809/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/03/18/arts/the-brooklyn-museum-plans-to-double-its-size.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127739716">{{Cite news |last=Lipson |first=Karin |date=April 6, 1986 |title=Grand Plans at the Brooklyn Museum |pages=101 |work=Newsday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-grand-plans-at/127739716/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707221754/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-grand-plans-at/127739716/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The plan involved doubling the amount of exhibition space in the building from {{Convert|450,000|to|830000|ft2}}.<ref name="nyt-1986-03-18" /> At the time, the museum could only exhibit about five percent of its collection simultaneously,<ref name="nyt-1986-03-18" /> as its building was one-sixth as large as originally planned.<ref name="nyt-1986-07-20">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=July 20, 1986 |title=Why the Brooklyn Museum Must Bet on a Daring Master Plan |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/07/20/arts/why-the-brooklyn-museum-must-bet-on-a-daring-master-plan.html |access-date=October 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The museum was to expand its storage, classroom, and conservation facilities and add an auditorium.<ref name="nyt-1986-03-18" /> Buck met with the heads of all of the museum's departments to determine how much exhibit and storage space they needed.<ref name="nyt-1986-07-20" /> The museum also planned a new entrance from the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, which had twice as many annual visitors;<ref name="n127739716" /><ref name="nyt-1986-07-20" /> the Botanic Garden entrance had been planned by McKim, Mead & White but never executed.<ref name="nyt-1986-03-18" /> The project was expected to cost $50 million to $100 million,<ref name="nyt-1986-07-20" /><ref name="n127739716" /> which was to be funded by the city's capital budget.<ref name="p285377946">{{cite news |last=Lipson |first=Karin |date=September 18, 1986 |title=Brooklyn Museum Raises Admission to Offset Cuts |page=20 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|285377946}}}}</ref>

Museum officials held an [[architectural design competition]] to redesign the west wing,<ref name="nyt-1986-05-27">{{Cite news |date=May 27, 1986 |title=Brooklyn Museum Names Semi-Finalists |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/27/arts/brooklyn-museum-names-semi-finalists.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162254/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/05/27/arts/brooklyn-museum-names-semi-finalists.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p285504974">{{cite news |date=May 21, 1986 |title=10 Architectural Firms Are Semifinalists In Brooklyn Museum Design Competition |page=8 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|285504974}}}}</ref> attracting 103 competitors;<ref name="p219201884">{{cite magazine |last=Sommerfield |first=Frank |date=November 3, 1986 |title=Museum Links Lofty Aspirations to Architects' Quest for Prestige |magazine=Crain's New York Business |volume=2 |issue=44 |page=17 |id={{ProQuest|219201884}}}}</ref> they hired [[Arata Isozaki]] of [[James Stewart Polshek|James Stewart Polshek Partners]] that October.<ref name="nyt-1986-10-17">{{Cite news |last=Giovannini |first=Joseph |date=October 17, 1986 |title=Brooklyn Museum Design Selected |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/17/arts/brooklyn-museum-design-selected.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162410/https://www.nytimes.com/1986/10/17/arts/brooklyn-museum-design-selected.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="p1830721135">{{Cite news |last=Hine |first=Thomas |date=October 26, 1986 |title=An Attention-getting Design for the Brooklyn Museum |page=G.14 |work=Philadelphia Inquirer |id={{ProQuest|1830721135}}}}</ref> Isozaki's design retained much of McKim, Mead & White's original plan but included a "great hall" and trapezoidal courtyards,<ref name="p1830721135" /> as well as an angled rear wall and an obelisk.<ref name="p219201884" /> Buck expressed optimism that media coverage of the design competition would attract additional visitors, even if the master plan was never completely carried out.<ref name="p277858017">{{cite news |last=Brenna |first=Susan |date=January 6, 1988 |title=Making a Museum Matter Director Bob Buck's grand plans for the Brooklyn Museum call for new art and new patrons |page=4 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|277858017}}}}</ref> The scope of the renovation grew quickly, with estimated costs reaching $200 million by early 1988.<ref name="p277964505">{{cite news |last=Brenna |first=Susan |date=January 20, 1988 |title=Culture Watching a Work of Art, Brooklyn Style the Brooklyn Museum Takes Dramatic Steps to Bring New and Suburban Visitors to Its Underappreciated Collection |page=3 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|277964505}}}}</ref> Iris and B. Gerald Cantor donated $3.5 million for the museum's auditorium in 1989,<ref name="nyt-1989-05-04">{{Cite news |date=May 4, 1989 |title=Brooklyn Museum Gets $3.5 Million Gift |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/04/arts/brooklyn-museum-gets-3.5-million-gift.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162519/https://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/04/arts/brooklyn-museum-gets-3.5-million-gift.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the city gave another $2 million for other work.<ref name="p277983501">{{cite news |last=English |first=Merle |date=July 10, 1989 |title=B'klyn Brings Back Some Bacon in Talks Over City Budget |page=19 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|277983501}}}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum announced in 1990 that it would begin the first phase of renovation, which was to cost $31 million. This involved converting the offices in the west wing to about {{convert|64000|ft2}} of gallery space for its Egyptian collection, as well as building storage space and an auditorium.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Yarrow|first=Andrew L.|date=April 28, 1990|title=Expansion at the Brooklyn Museum|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/28/arts/expansion-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html|access-date=July 2, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133131/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/04/28/arts/expansion-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The same year, budget cuts prompted museum officials to lay off employees<ref name="nyt-1990-06-23">{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=June 23, 1990 |title=Brooklyn Museum to Cut Staff, Hours and Exhibits |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/23/arts/brooklyn-museum-to-cut-staff-hours-and-exhibits.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162937/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/23/arts/brooklyn-museum-to-cut-staff-hours-and-exhibits.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and close its doors on Mondays.<ref name="nyt-1990-12-24">{{Cite news |date=December 24, 1990 |title=Brooklyn Museum Cutback |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/arts/brooklyn-museum-cutback.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162455/https://www.nytimes.com/1990/12/24/arts/brooklyn-museum-cutback.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The auditorium opened in 1991; at the time, there had not been an auditorium at the museum for over half a century.<ref name="nyt-1991-04-08">{{Cite news|last=Glueck|first=Grace|date=April 8, 1991|title=New Assembly Hall Opening At the Brooklyn Museum|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/08/arts/new-assembly-hall-opening-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html|access-date=July 2, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133131/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/04/08/arts/new-assembly-hall-opening-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html|url-status=live}}</ref> About {{convert|33000|ft2}} in the museum's west wing reopened as gallery space in November 1993.<ref name="n127455379" /><ref name="nyt-1993-11-28">{{Cite news |date=November 28, 1993 |title=Postings: 30,000 Square Feet for Galleries; West Wing Renovated At Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/realestate/postings-30000-square-feet-for-galleries-west-wing-renovated-at-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702030134/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/28/realestate/postings-30000-square-feet-for-galleries-west-wing-renovated-at-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The renovation retained the original layout of the west-wing spaces.<ref name="n127455267">{{Cite news |last=Wallach |first=Amei |date=December 3, 1993 |title=Brooklyn's Transformed Galleries |pages=106 |work=Newsday |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-brooklyns-transformed-galleries/127455267/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041550/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-brooklyns-transformed-galleries/127455267/ |url-status=live }}</ref> ''The New York Times'' described Isozaki and Polshek's renovation as aiming for "clean, serene spaces"; the rooms had rooms with maple floors, white walls, horizontal lighting strips, and granite [[baseboard]]s.<ref name="nyt-1993-11-30">{{Cite news |last=Collins |first=Glenn |date=November 30, 1993 |title=New Wing, New Hope at Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/30/arts/new-wing-new-hope-at-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/11/30/arts/new-wing-new-hope-at-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The west wing was renamed for investor [[Morris Schapiro|Morris A. Schapiro]] and his brother, art historian [[Meyer Schapiro]], in early 1994 after Morris Schapiro donated $5 million.<ref name="n127743281">{{Cite news |last=Harney |first=James |date=January 31, 1994 |title=Two brothers put their money where the art is |pages=107 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-two-brothers-put-their-money/127743281/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707210101/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-two-brothers-put-their-money/127743281/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-1994-08-14">{{Cite news |last=Solomon |first=Deborah |date=August 14, 1994 |title=A Critic Turns 90; Meyer Schapiro |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/magazine/a-critic-turns-90-meyer-schapiro.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=June 18, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130618063856/http://www.nytimes.com/1994/08/14/magazine/a-critic-turns-90-meyer-schapiro.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

The Brooklyn Museum changed its name to '''Brooklyn Museum of Art''' in 1997.<ref name="nyt-1997-03-17">{{Cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=March 17, 1997 |title=For Brooklyn Museum, New Director and New Image |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/17/arts/for-brooklyn-museum-new-director-and-new-image.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141140/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/03/17/arts/for-brooklyn-museum-new-director-and-new-image.html |url-status=live }}</ref> According to acting director Linda S. Ferber, the renaming was necessary because "there was more confusion about the museum's identity than we supposed"; for instance, many visitors still believed the museum had natural-history exhibits, which had not been the case since 1934.<ref name="nyt-1997-01-31">{{Cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=January 31, 1997|title=Inside Art|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/arts/inside-art.html|access-date=July 6, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162502/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/01/31/arts/inside-art.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

===21st century===
====2000s and 2010s====
[[File:BrooklynMuseumJanuary2007.jpg|thumb|The Eastern Parkway entrance to the Brooklyn Museum, rebuilt in 2004]]
Brooklyn Museum officials hired architect [[James Polshek]] in 2000 to design a new glass-clad entrance for the building at a cost of $55 million.<ref name="nyt-2000-09-20">{{Cite news |last=Barstow |first=David |date=September 20, 2000 |title=$55 Million Face Lift for Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/20/nyregion/55-million-face-lift-for-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705020043/https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/20/nyregion/55-million-face-lift-for-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127641060">{{Cite news |last=Hays |first=Elizabeth |date=December 17, 2000 |title=New museum sensation eyed |pages=273 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-new-museum-sensation-eyedeli/127641060/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705020618/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-new-museum-sensation-eyedeli/127641060/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Polshek described the front entrance as a "wasteland" at the time, and he said he wanted to build "Brooklyn's new front stoop".<ref name="nyt-2000-09-20" /> The [[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] approved Polshek's design, despite opposition from preservationists.<ref name="p305880467">{{cite news |last=Shelby |first=Joyce |date=April 15, 2004 |title=Old Beaux Gets Face-lift Brooklyn Museum Redesign Fuses Past & Future |page=3 |work=New York Daily News |issn=2692-1251 |id={{ProQuest|305880467}}}}</ref> The renovation cost $63 million<ref name="nyt-2004-04-12">{{Cite news |last1=Kennedy |first1=Randy |last2=Vogel |first2=Carol |date=April 12, 2004 |title=Brooklyn Museum, Newly Refurbished, Seeks an Audience |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/nyregion/brooklyn-museum-newly-refurbished-seeks-an-audience.html |access-date=July 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705020047/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/12/nyregion/brooklyn-museum-newly-refurbished-seeks-an-audience.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="n127641604">{{Cite news |last1=Budick |first1=Ariella |last2=Davidson |first2=Justin |date=April 16, 2004 |title=Open Plan, Open Museum |pages=89, [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-brooklyn-museu/127641623/ 90], [https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-open-plan-ope/127641694/ 116] |work=Newsday (Suffolk Edition) |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-open-plan-ope/127641604/ |access-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-date=July 5, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230705020618/https://www.newspapers.com/article/newsday-suffolk-edition-open-plan-ope/127641604/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and also added air conditioning throughout the museum building.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Chow|first=Andrew R.|date=July 7, 2016|title=Brooklyn Museum Loses Air-Conditioning and Will Close for Weekend|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-loses-air-conditioning-and-will-close-for-weekend.html|access-date=July 2, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-loses-air-conditioning-and-will-close-for-weekend.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Henry Luce|Henry Luce Foundation]] gave the museum a $10 million grant in 2001, which funded the construction of the Luce Center for American Art on the fifth floor.<ref name="nyt-2001-04-21">{{Cite news |date=April 21, 2001 |title=$10 Million Grant to Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/21/arts/10-million-grant-to-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707162152/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/04/21/arts/10-million-grant-to-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum's renovation was completed in April 2004.<ref name="nyt-2004-04-12" /><ref name="n127641604" />  At the same time, the museum announced that it would revert to its previous name, Brooklyn Museum.<ref name="muschamp">{{cite news |last=Muschamp |first=Herbert |date=July 16, 2004 |title=Brooklyn's Radiant New Art Palace |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/arts/architecture-review-brooklyn-s-radiant-new-art-palace.html |access-date=October 27, 2010 |archive-date=May 23, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130523164240/http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/16/arts/architecture-review-brooklyn-s-radiant-new-art-palace.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Artopia 2004 r620">{{cite web |date=April 19, 2004 |title=BROOKLYN MUSEUM REBORN? |url=https://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/2004/04/brooklyn_museum_reborn.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=Artopia |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141134/https://www.artsjournal.com/artopia/2004/04/brooklyn_museum_reborn.html |url-status=live }}</ref> By then, the Brooklyn Museum was focusing on attracting Brooklyn residents, rather than visitors from other boroughs.<ref name="nyt-2004-04-12" /> The [[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]] opened on the museum's fourth floor in March 2007.<ref name="micucci" /><ref name="Hajela 2007 k717">{{cite web |last=Hajela |first=Deepti |date=April 2, 2007 |title='Herstory': Feminist art finds a home at Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-apr-02-et-feministart2-story.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Los Angeles Times}}</ref>

The museum extensively renovated its Great Hall, which reopened in early 2011,<ref name="Carlson 2011 r679">{{cite web | last=Carlson | first=Jen | title=Brooklyn Museum Unveils New Look, New Installation | website=Gothamist | date=February 25, 2011 | url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/brooklyn-museum-unveils-new-look-new-installation | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/brooklyn-museum-unveils-new-look-new-installation | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="nyt-2011-02-24">{{Cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=February 24, 2011|title=Creating a Great Palace of Culture in Brooklyn|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25vogel.html|access-date=July 2, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/25/arts/design/25vogel.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and it relocated and reopened its African art gallery on the first floor the same year.<ref name="The New York Times 2011 f952">{{cite web |last=Cotter |first=Holland |date=September 1, 2011 |title='African Innovations' at Brooklyn Museum – Review |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/02/arts/design/african-innovations-at-brooklyn-museum-review.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> A {{convert|4,150|ft2|adj=on}} museum shop opened at the Brooklyn Museum in early 2012,<ref name="Cameron 2012 m893">{{cite web | last=Cameron | first=Christopher | title=Brooklyn Museum Shop – Museum's Renovation | website=The Real Deal | date=January 25, 2012 | url=https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2012/01/25/larger-brooklyn-museum-shop-to-open/ | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133132/https://therealdeal.com/new-york/2012/01/25/larger-brooklyn-museum-shop-to-open/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Schuh 2012 k928">{{cite web | last=Schuh | first=Jamie | title=New Brooklyn Museum Shop to Open in April, First in Planned Renovations | website=Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill, NY Patch | date=January 25, 2012 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/carrollgardens/new-brooklyn-museum-shop-to-open-in-april-first-in-pl0326214127 | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://patch.com/new-york/carrollgardens/new-brooklyn-museum-shop-to-open-in-april-first-in-pl0326214127 | url-status=live }}</ref> followed later that year by a new cafe.<ref name="Levine 2013 k091">{{cite web | last=Levine | first=Jill Rader | title=Photos: Brooklyn Museum's New Cafe | website=Prospect Heights-Crown Heights, NY Patch | date=February 1, 2013 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/brooklyn-museum-of-art-debuts-its-new-cafe | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/brooklyn-museum-of-art-debuts-its-new-cafe | url-status=live }}</ref> The upscale restaurant [[Saul (restaurant)|Saul]] opened within the Brooklyn Museum in October 2013,<ref name="Musumeci 2013 q816">{{cite web | last=Musumeci | first=Natalie | title=Brooklyn Museum's latest installation: A fancy restaurant | website=Brooklyn Paper | date=October 18, 2013 | url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-museums-latest-installation-a-fancy-restaurant/ | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702134631/https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-museums-latest-installation-a-fancy-restaurant/ | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Casey 2013 o469">{{cite web | last=Casey | first=Nell | title=Saul Restaurant Brings Haute Cuisine To The Brooklyn Museum | website=Gothamist | date=October 21, 2013 | url=https://gothamist.com/food/saul-restaurant-brings-haute-cuisine-to-the-brooklyn-museum | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://gothamist.com/food/saul-restaurant-brings-haute-cuisine-to-the-brooklyn-museum | url-status=live }}</ref> changing its name to The Norm in 2016.<ref name="nyt-2016-05-17">{{Cite news|last=Fabricant|first=Florence|date=May 17, 2016|title=Günter Seeger Wants You to Feel at Home|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/dining/restaurants-gunter-seeger-ny.html|access-date=July 2, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133129/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/18/dining/restaurants-gunter-seeger-ny.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Morabito 2016 i310">{{cite web | last=Morabito | first=Greg | title=Saul Turns Into The Norm, Setbacks for the Old Le Baron Space, and More Intel | website=Eater NY | date=May 18, 2016 | url=https://ny.eater.com/2016/5/18/11699878/saul-norm-brooklyn-museum | access-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-date=July 2, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702133130/https://ny.eater.com/2016/5/18/11699878/saul-norm-brooklyn-museum | url-status=live }}</ref> By the mid-2010s, the museum was facing financial difficulties, and half of the 465,000 annual patrons did not pay admission because of the museum's [[suggested admission]] policy.<ref name="nyt-2017-04-30">{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=April 30, 2017 |title='Encyclopedic' Brooklyn Museum Vies for Contemporary Attention |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-contemporary-art.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707161610/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/30/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-contemporary-art.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum's Chinese-art gallery reopened in 2019.<ref name="NYT Asian" />

====2020s to present====
The museum was temporarily closed from March to October 2020 because of the [[COVID-19 pandemic in New York City]].<ref name="nyt-2020-08-19">{{Cite news |last=Bahr |first=Sarah |date=August 19, 2020 |title=Two Museums Announce September Reopenings |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-el-museo-del-barrio-reopening.html |access-date=July 6, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707161617/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-el-museo-del-barrio-reopening.html |url-status=live }}</ref> During the [[George Floyd protests in New York City]] in June 2020, the museum participated in the Open Your Lobby initiative, being one of two major art institutions in New York City (along with [[MoMA PS1]]) to provide protesters with shelter or resources.<ref name="Holmes 2020 z563">{{cite web | last=Holmes | first=Helen | title=NYC Performance Spaces Have Stepped Up to Help Protesters, and Museums Should Too | website=Observer | date=June 16, 2020 | url=https://observer.com/2020/06/open-your-lobby-initiative-protesters-brooklyn-museum/ | access-date=January 15, 2024}}</ref> The Brooklyn Museum received $50 million from the New York City government in 2021, the largest such gift in the museum's history.<ref name="nyt-2021-11-22">{{Cite news |last=Bahr |first=Sarah |date=November 22, 2021 |title=Brooklyn Museum to Receive $50 Million Gift From City of New York |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/city-gives-brooklyn-museum-50-million.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128185732/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/arts/design/city-gives-brooklyn-museum-50-million.html |archive-date=January 28, 2022 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="Artnet News 2021 y852">{{cite web |date=November 22, 2021 |title=The City of New York Will Give $50 Million to the Brooklyn Museum—the Largest Such Gift in the Institution's History |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/city-new-york-will-gift-50-million-brooklyn-museum-largest-gift-institutions-history-2038846 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702023730/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/city-new-york-will-gift-50-million-brooklyn-museum-largest-gift-institutions-history-2038846 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Artnet News}}</ref> The money was to be used to renovate {{convert|40000|ft2}} into gallery space.<ref name="Hickman 2021 x102">{{cite web |last=Hickman |first=Matt |date=November 23, 2021 |title=The Brooklyn Museum will get a $50 million revamp |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2021/11/the-brooklyn-museum-will-get-a-50-million-revamp/ |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}</ref><ref name="Brooklyn Eagle 2022 n986">{{cite web |last=Kuster |first=Elizabeth |date=August 8, 2022 |title=Young Architect, With Deep Roots At Brooklyn Museum, Becomes Lead on $50MM Renovation |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2022/08/08/brooklyn-museum-wins-50mm-grant-hires-capital-projects-exec-to-transform-its-space/ |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Brooklyn Eagle}}</ref> The museum's South Asian and Islamic galleries reopened in 2022, completing a 12-year renovation of the Asian galleries.<ref name="Herman 2022 u881">{{cite web | last=Herman | first=Tamar | title='The flavour changes as you walk through': Brooklyn Museum's Asian galleries, reopened after renovation, adopt themes to present art in a new way | website=South China Morning Post | date=October 5, 2022 | url=https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3194761/flavour-changes-you-walk-through-brooklyn-museums-asian | access-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141133/https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3194761/flavour-changes-you-walk-through-brooklyn-museums-asian | url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Angeleti 2022 p634">{{cite web | last=Angeleti | first=Gabriella | title=Brooklyn Museum completes ten-year renovation of Asian and Islamic art galleries | website=The Art Newspaper | date=September 30, 2022 | url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/30/brooklyn-museum-asian-islamic-art-galleries-renovation | access-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-date=July 3, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141134/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/30/brooklyn-museum-asian-islamic-art-galleries-renovation | url-status=live }}</ref> To make way for additional exhibition space, in early 2024 the museum sold off 200 objects and the contents of four period rooms.<ref name="Boucher 2024 n829">{{cite web | last=Boucher | first=Brian | title=The Brooklyn Museum Is Selling Four Period Rooms | website=Artnet News | date=March 14, 2024 | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brooklyn-museum-selling-period-rooms-2452305 | access-date=March 16, 2024}}</ref> That January, the museum opened its Toby Devan Lewis Education Center, which contains three studios and a gallery.<ref>{{cite web | title=Brooklyn Museum cuts ribbon on new education center | website=News 12 – The Bronx | date=January 27, 2024 | url=https://bronx.news12.com/brooklyn-museum-cuts-ribbon-on-new-education-center | access-date=June 2, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Graeber|first=Laurel|date=January 25, 2024|title=Hands-On Art at the Brooklyn Museum's New Education Center|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/25/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-education-center.html|access-date=June 2, 2024|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The museum started using a new logo that September.<ref>{{cite web | last=Weaver | first=Shaye | title=The Brooklyn Museum just unveiled a new logo and merch—and we think it's pretty cool | website=Time Out New York | date=September 9, 2024 | url=https://www.timeout.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-museum-just-underwent-a-major-rebrand-and-has-a-new-logo-090924 | access-date=September 10, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Chau | first=Mandie | title=Premium Content: Brooklyn Museum celebrates bicentennial with a rebrand | website=Brooklyn Eagle | date=September 9, 2024 | url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2024/09/09/brooklyn-museum-celebrates-bicentennial-with-a-rebrand/ | access-date=September 10, 2024}}</ref> 

In 2021, Brooklyn Museum staff organized to form a union representing various roles, including curators, educators, and front-desk workers.<ref name="Cascone 2023">{{cite web | last=Cascone | first=Sarah | title=Workers at the Brooklyn Museum Have Ratified Their First Union Contract, Guaranteeing Them Pay Increases | website=Artnet News | date=November 8, 2023 | url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brooklyn-museum-averts-strike-ratifies-union-contract-2391460 | access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref> The union vote passed with strong support, and union members ratified their first contract in November 2023, following two years of negotiations.<ref name="Cascone 2023" /><ref>{{cite web | last=Good | first=Michaela | title=United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America | website=UAW | date=November 8, 2023 | url=https://uaw.org/brooklyn-museum-workers-ratify-first-union-contract/ | access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | last=Quinnell | first=Kenneth | title=Service & Solidarity Spotlight: Brooklyn Museum Workers Ratify First Union Contract | website=AFL-CIO | date=November 13, 2023 | url=https://aflcio.org/2023/11/13/service-solidarity-spotlight-brooklyn-museum-workers-ratify-first-union-contract | access-date=May 23, 2025}}</ref> Due to increasing financial deficits, in museum officials laid off employees and reduced the number of annual exhibitions in early 2025,<ref>{{cite web |last=Small |first=Zachary |date=February 7, 2025 |title=Brooklyn Museum Will Lay Off Employees and Scale Back Exhibitions |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-layoffs.html |access-date=February 8, 2025 |website=The New York Times}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=February 7, 2025 |title=Brooklyn Museum announces drastic cuts to its workforce and exhibitions in letter from director |url=https://abc7ny.com/post/brooklyn-museum-announces-drastic-cuts-workforce-exhibitions-letter-director/15877667/ |access-date=February 8, 2025 |website=ABC7 New York}}</ref> though further job reductions were averted due to increased funding from the city.<ref>{{cite web |last=Liscia |first=Valentina Di |date=July 1, 2025 |title=After Pressure, City Saves Jobs at Brooklyn Museum |url=https://hyperallergic.com/1024413/after-pressure-city-saves-jobs-at-brooklyn-museum/ |access-date=July 3, 2025 |website=Hyperallergic}}</ref>

==Building<span class="anchor" id="Architecture"></span>==
The Brooklyn Museum building is a steel frame structure clad in masonry, designed in the [[neoclassical style]] by the [[architecture|architectural]] firm of [[McKim, Mead, and White]] and built by the Carlin Construction Company.<ref name="aia" /> The original museum building is a [[New York City designated landmark]]<ref name="nyt-1986-10-17" /> and was added to the [[National Register of Historic Places]] in June 1978.<ref name="n132921414">{{Cite news |last=Kappstatter |first=Robert |date=June 11, 1978 |title=They Register Their Mark on History |pages=141 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-they-register-their-mark-on-h/132921414/ |access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> The museum shares a large city block with Brooklyn's [[Central Library (Brooklyn Public Library)|Central Library]], [[Mount Prospect Park]], and the [[Brooklyn Botanic Garden]] to the west and south.<ref>{{cite report|url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001446.pdf|title=Brooklyn Public Library, Central Building|date=January 11, 2002|publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]], [[National Park Service]]|page=3|access-date=July 24, 2023|archive-date=June 23, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230623201336/https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/01001446.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Exterior ===
The original design for the Brooklyn Museum proposed a structure four times as large as what was built from 1893 through 1927, when construction ended.<ref name="aia" /> As designed, the three-story museum building was supposed to have several wings, centered around a memorial hall and clustered around four [[light court]]s.<ref name="p126805239" /><ref name="p136576182">{{Cite magazine |last=North |first=Helen Marshall |date=March 23, 1895 |title=The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences |magazine=Outlook |volume=51 |issue=12 |page=464 |id={{ProQuest|136576182}}}}</ref> After Brooklyn became part of greater New York City in 1898, support for the project diminished.<ref name="aia">{{cite aia5|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=t0gj61QSgk8C&q=aia+guide+new+york+city+1978 605–606]}}</ref>  Only the wings on the northern end, as well as the northeastern light court (known as the Auditorium Court), were built; the resulting L-shaped building covers a site of about {{convert|4.5|acre}}.<ref name="NRHP-77000944">{{cite report |url=https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000944.pdf |title=Brooklyn Museum |date=August 22, 1977 |publisher=[[National Register of Historic Places]], [[National Park Service]] |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703190816/https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/77000944.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>{{rp|page=|pages=2–3}} Although additional wings were built behind the original east wing over the years (creating the current light court), nothing was built behind the west wing.<ref name="n127455379" /><ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}} This led the ''New York Daily News'' to liken the museum building to a movie set.<ref name="n127455379">{{Cite news |last=Klawans |first=Stuart |date=November 28, 1993 |title=B'klyn Museum: What a relief! |pages=745 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-bklyn-museum-what-a-relief/127455379/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041548/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-bklyn-museum-what-a-relief/127455379/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

==== Main facade ====
[[File:Brooklyn Museum Night 2015.jpg|thumb|The museum at night]]
The primary [[Elevation (architecture)|elevation]] of the facade, facing north along Eastern Parkway, is {{Convert|510|ft}} wide and consists of the west and east wings, which flank a projecting pavilion with a [[portico]]. Additional pavilions project from the facade at either end. The center portico contains six [[Ionic order|Ionic]] columns that support a [[pediment]] with sculptures in its [[Tympanum (architecture)|tympanum]].<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}} The portico was originally accessed by a staircase that was removed in 1936–1937.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=3}}<ref name="NYCL-0155">{{cite report |url=http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0155.pdf |title=Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (Brooklyn Museum) |date=March 15, 1966 |publisher=[[New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission]] |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-date=September 5, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220905005758/http://s-media.nyc.gov/agencies/lpc/lp/0155.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Daniel Chester French]] was responsible for the pediment sculptures. French also designed the two allegorical figures ''Brooklyn'' and ''Manhattan'' flanking the museum's entrance; they were created in 1916 for the Brooklyn approach to the [[Manhattan Bridge]] and relocated to the museum in 1963.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=3}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knox |first=Sanka |date=April 8, 1964 |title=Bridge Traffic Was Too Much, So the Ladies Moved to a Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/08/archives/bridge-traffic-was-too-much-so-the-ladies-moved-to-a-museum.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230514202913/https://www.nytimes.com/1964/04/08/archives/bridge-traffic-was-too-much-so-the-ladies-moved-to-a-museum.html |archive-date=May 14, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Above the pediment is a copper cresting with [[Anthemion|anthemia]], as well as a low [[saucer dome]].<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}}<ref name="NYCL-0155" /> The modern main entrance, dating to Polshek's 2004 renovation, consists of a glass pavilion with four metal pylons, as well as a semicircular plaza just outside.<ref name="muschamp" /><ref name="p305880467" /> A set of brick [[Pier (architecture)|piers]], which had supported the original entrance staircase, was repurposed into a brick arch in 2004.<ref name="n127696103">{{Cite news |last=Hamill |first=Denis |date=April 4, 2004 |title=Museum redo is work of art |pages=104 |work=Daily News |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-museum-redo-is-work-of-artde/127696103/ |access-date=July 6, 2023 |archive-date=July 8, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230708010619/https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-museum-redo-is-work-of-artde/127696103/ |url-status=live }}</ref>

The pavilions at either end of the Eastern Parkway facade protrude only slightly from the facade and contain engaged columns in the Ionic order. The west and east wings are divided vertically by [[pilaster]]s; between each set of pilasters are windows with [[architrave]]s. The [[entablature]] above the pilasters contains a frieze with inscribed names of figures who represent knowledge.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}}

The Eastern Parkway facade is topped by 20 monolithic figures on the cornice: one above each pilaster on the west and east wings, and four above the pavilions.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}} An additional ten figures, five each on the western and eastern elevations of the outermost pavilions, were sculpted.<ref name="p572018007">{{cite news |date=January 19, 1908 |title=American Sculptures: Models of Figures for Facades of Brooklyn Institute |page=A3 |work=New-York Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|572018007}}}}</ref> The sculptures were carved by the [[Piccirilli Brothers]], who sculpted a total of 30 figures on the museum's facade.<ref name="nyt-1999-10-17">{{Cite news |last=Gray |first=Christopher |date=October 17, 1999 |title=Streetscapes/The Piccirillis; Six Brothers Who Left Their Mark as Sculptors |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/realestate/streetscapes-the-piccirillis-six-brothers-who-left-their-mark-as-sculptors.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190108005955/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/10/17/realestate/streetscapes-the-piccirillis-six-brothers-who-left-their-mark-as-sculptors.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Tolles Dimmick Hassler 1999 p. 482">{{cite book |last1=Tolles |first1=T. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=slQEFSrX3ooC&pg=PA482  |title=American Sculpture in the Metropolitan Museum of Art: A catalogue of works by artists born between 1865 and 1885 |last2=Dimmick |first2=L. |last3=Hassler |first3=D.J. |publisher=The Museum |year=1999 |isbn=978-0-87099-923-9 |page=482}}</ref> Fourteen sculptors were hired to design the sculptures, which each measure {{Convert|12|ft}} high. Had the full building been completed, there would have been 80 sculptures in total, with 20 each depicting classical subjects, medieval and Renaissance subjects, modern European and American subjects, and Asian subjects. The 30 extant sculptures consist of the 20 classical sculptures (10 Greek and 10 Roman) on the northern elevation, as well as five Persian and five Chinese sculptures on the side elevations.<ref name="p572018007" />

==== Other facades ====
The eastern elevation of the facade faces Washington Avenue, where only the pavilion at the northern end was built. The rest of the eastern elevation is similar to that on Eastern Parkway, with pilasters dividing it vertically into seven [[Bay (architecture)|bays]]. Unlike on Eastern Parkway, the pilasters are topped by shorter pilasters rather than sculptures.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=2}} The southern elevation faces a parking lot and contains a masonry facade and some windows.<ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=3}} There is also an annex to the south, designed by Brown, Lawford & Forbes, which contains a secondary entrance and a stairway.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /><ref name="NRHP-77000944" />{{rp|page=3}}

=== Interior ===
The oldest portion of the building measured {{convert|193|by|71|ft}} and comprised only about three percent of what was originally planned. The center of the first floor would have contained a memorial hall, while a "great hall of sculpture" would have extended to the north and south of the memorial hall. To the west of the memorial hall would have been gallery space for artwork on loan, while to the east would have been a multi-story auditorium. The remaining corners of the first floor would have included several additional galleries for the museum's permanent collections, and the light courts would have exhibited large objects. The second floor would have housed more collections and lecture rooms, while the third floor would have had the library, music room, and galleries for images, domestic art, and science. An additional story, above the central part of the building, would have housed more departments of the museum.<ref name="p126805239" />

The main lobby, originally occupied by the ground-level auditorium, was built during the mid-20th century as a modern-style space.<ref name="n127454116">{{Cite news |date=April 25, 1948 |title=The Museum Lives |pages=23 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-the-museum-live/127454116/ |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041546/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-the-museum-live/127454116/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Although then-director Philip Newell Youtz was the [[architect of record]], the lobby's design may have been influenced by [[William Lescaze]], who was Youtz's friend.<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> The lobby, containing black-glass panels and indirect lighting, was described in the 1939 ''[[WPA Guide|WPA Guide to New York City]]'' as "an example of the best in modern architecture... devoid of the elaborate decoration which so often clutters up the entrances of public building."<ref name="nyt-1987-10-11" /> Following a 2011 renovation, the lobby was redesigned as a double-height central gallery surrounded by {{convert|25|ft|m|-tall|adj=mid}} columns.<ref name="Carlson 2011 r679" /><ref name="nyt-2011-02-24" />

== Operations ==
The Brooklyn Museum is operated by a nonprofit of the same name, which was established in 1935.<ref name="GuideStar Profile b475">{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.guidestar.org/profile/11-1672743 |access-date=October 5, 2023 |website=GuideStar Profile}}</ref> The museum is part of the [[Cultural Institutions Group]] (CIG), a group of institutions that occupy land or buildings owned by the New York City government and derive part of their yearly funding from the city.<ref name="Welcome to NYC.gov d849">{{cite web |title=Cultural Institutions Group (CIG) – DCLA |url=https://www.nyc.gov/site/dcla/cultural-funding/city-owned-institutions.page |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=Welcome to NYC.gov}}</ref> It was also part of the [[Brooklyn Educational Cultural Alliance]] during the late 20th century.<ref name="nyt-1983-12-18">{{Cite news |date=December 18, 1983 |title=Organization Aids Brooklyn Groups |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/12/18/nyregion/organization-aids-brooklyn-groups.html |access-date=October 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> During the late 1980s, the museum was part of a group called Destination Brooklyn, which sought to attract visitors to Brooklyn;<ref name="p278140120">{{cite news |last=Castro |first=Laura |date=October 12, 1989 |title=Brooklyn Angles for Tourists |page=51 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|278140120}}}}</ref> this initiative had stalled by the early 1990s.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Yarrow |first=Andrew L. |date=May 1, 1991 |title=Brooklyn Tells Tourists, Yo! Don't Overlook Us |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/05/01/nyregion/brooklyn-tells-tourists-yo-don-t-overlook-us.html |access-date=October 5, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

=== Directors ===
[[Franklin Hooper]] was the Brooklyn Institute's first director, serving for 25 years until his death in 1914.<ref name="The New York Times 1914 z476">{{cite news |date=August 2, 1914 |title=Prof. Hooper Dies in New Hampshire; Director of Brooklyn institute of Arts and Sciences for Twenty-five Years. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/08/02/archives/prof-hooper-dies-in-tlew-hitmpshirei-director-of-brooklyn-institute.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213021/https://www.nytimes.com/1914/08/02/archives/prof-hooper-dies-in-tlew-hitmpshirei-director-of-brooklyn-institute.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Hooper was succeeded by William Henry Fox, who served from 1914 to his retirement in 1934.<ref name="The New York Times 1934 y532">{{cite news |date=April 12, 1934 |title=Fox Retires as Head of Brooklyn Museum; Resigns After Nearly 22 Years as Director – P.N. Youtz Is Selected to Succeed Him. |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1934/04/12/archives/fox-retires-as-head-of-brooklyn-museum-resigns-after-nearly-22.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213020/https://www.nytimes.com/1934/04/12/archives/fox-retires-as-head-of-brooklyn-museum-resigns-after-nearly-22.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="n127453619">{{Cite news |last=Read |first=Helen Appleton |date=April 22, 1934 |title=Brooklyn Museum Pioneer for Recognition of Modern Spirit—The Independent |pages=30 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/127453619/ |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702041544/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/127453619/ |archive-date=July 2, 2023}}</ref> Fox was followed by Philip Newell Youtz from 1934 to 1938.<ref name="The New York Times 1938 p737">{{cite news |date=April 14, 1938 |title=Youtz Quits as Head of Brooklyn Museum; He Will Become Consultant to San Francisco Exposition |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/14/archives/youtz-quits-as-head-of-brooklyn-museum-he-will-become-consultant-to.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213024/https://www.nytimes.com/1938/04/14/archives/youtz-quits-as-head-of-brooklyn-museum-he-will-become-consultant-to.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p1242893420">{{cite news |date=April 14, 1938 |title=Youtz Resigns From Brooklyn Museum Post: Director Says His Program Is Complete and He Will Become a Consultant at Golden Gate Exposition |page=21 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1242893420}}}}</ref> Laurance Page Roberts was director from 1938 to 1942, when his wife Isabel Spaulding Roberts became interim director on his behalf;<ref name="The New York Times 2002 t562">{{cite news |date=April 1, 2002 |title=Laurance P. Roberts, 95, Director of Museums |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/01/arts/laurance-p-roberts-95-director-of-museums.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213021/https://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/01/arts/laurance-p-roberts-95-director-of-museums.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> L. P. Roberts formally resigned in 1946.<ref name="The New York Times 1946 c719">{{cite news |date=April 20, 1946 |title=Quits Brooklyn Museum; Captain Roberts, Still in Army, Resigns as Director |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/20/archives/quits-brooklyn-museum-captain-roberts-still-in-army-resigns-as.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213022/https://www.nytimes.com/1946/04/20/archives/quits-brooklyn-museum-captain-roberts-still-in-army-resigns-as.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p1291247273">{{cite news |date=April 20, 1946 |title=Capt. L. P. Roberts Resigns As Brooklyn Museum Director |page=13 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1291247273}}}}</ref> His immediate successor, Charles Nagel Jr., served for nine years until he resigned in 1955.<ref name="The New York Times 1954 l251">{{cite web |date=December 13, 1954 |title=Director Nagel Resigns |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/13/archives/director-nagel-resigns.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213021/https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/13/archives/director-nagel-resigns.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> Edgar Craig Schenck, who was appointed director shortly afterward,<ref name="nyt-1954-12-18">{{Cite news |date=December 18, 1954 |title=New Director is Named By Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/18/archives/new-director-is-named-by-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005228/https://www.nytimes.com/1954/12/18/archives/new-director-is-named-by-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> served until his death in 1959.<ref name="The New York Times 1959 f820">{{cite news |date=November 17, 1959 |title=Edgar G. Schenck, Museum Aide, Dies; Director of the Brooklyn Institution Since 1955—Archaeologist, Writer |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1959/11/17/archives/edgar-g-schenck-museum-aide-dies-director-of-the-brooklyn.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701213023/https://www.nytimes.com/1959/11/17/archives/edgar-g-schenck-museum-aide-dies-director-of-the-brooklyn.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name="p1324101661">{{cite news |date=November 17, 1959 |title=Edgar C. Schenck Dies; Head of Brooklyn Museum |page=20 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1324101661}}}}</ref> [[Thomas S. Buechner]] became the museum's director in 1960,<ref name="p1326076848">{{cite news |date=April 29, 1960 |title=Named Director Of Brooklyn Museum |page=15 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1326076848}}}}</ref><ref name="The New York Times 1960 a048">{{cite web |date=April 29, 1960 |title=New Director Is Named By Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1960/04/29/archives/new-director-is-named-by-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The New York Times |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> making him one of the youngest directors in the country.<ref name="Grimes">{{cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=June 17, 2010 |title=Thomas S. Buechner, Former Director of Brooklyn Museum, Dies at 83 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/arts/design/18buechner.html |url-status=live |access-date=June 19, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818215301/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/18/arts/design/18buechner.html |archive-date=August 18, 2021 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> During Buechner's tenure, [[Donelson Hoopes]] was hired as Curator of Paintings and Sculptures from 1965 to 1969.<ref name="The New York Times 2006 i466">{{cite news |date=March 21, 2006 |title=Donelson Hoopes, 73, Curator and Historian of American Painting, Dies |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/arts/donelson-hoopes-73-curator-and-historian-of-american-painting-dies.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702002626/https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/arts/donelson-hoopes-73-curator-and-historian-of-american-painting-dies.html |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Duncan F. Cameron assumed the directorship in 1971, following Buechner's resignation;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Shirey |first=David L. |date=February 18, 1971 |title=Canadian Will Head Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/18/archives/canadian-will-head-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703204044/https://www.nytimes.com/1971/02/18/archives/canadian-will-head-brooklyn-museum.html |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Cameron himself resigned in 1973.<ref name="The New York Times 1973 i686" /><ref name="p1240163688" /> Michael Kan was appointed as acting director in early 1974,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=January 4, 1974 |title=Kan Is Brooklyn Museum's Acting Head |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/04/archives/kan-is-brooklyn-museums-acting-head.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> serving for a few months.<ref name="nyt-1974-05-16" /> He was succeeded by Michael Botwinick, who was appointed in 1974<ref name="The New York Times 1974 r554">{{cite web |date=August 2, 1974 |title=Botwinick to Head Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/02/archives/botwinick-to-head-brooklyn-museum-fortunate-appointment.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152211/https://www.nytimes.com/1974/08/02/archives/botwinick-to-head-brooklyn-museum-fortunate-appointment.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |access-date=July 1, 2023 |website=The New York Times}}</ref> and stepped down in 1982.<ref>{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite news|last=Molotsky|first=Irvin|date=September 25, 1982|title=Corcoran Names Botwinick Director|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/25/arts/corcoran-names-botwinick-director.html|access-date=October 5, 2023|issn=0362-4331 | archive-date=July 1, 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152211/https://www.nytimes.com/1982/09/25/arts/corcoran-names-botwinick-director.html | url-status=live}}|{{Cite news|date=September 28, 1982|title=Museum Eyes Replacement for Botwinick|pages=111|work=Daily News|url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/daily-news-museum-eyes-replacement-for-b/132922814/|access-date=October 5, 2023}}}}</ref> Robert T. Buck became director in 1983<ref name="nyt-1983-02-19a">{{Unbulleted list citebundle|{{Cite news|last=Brenson|first=Michael|date=February 19, 1983|title=Robert T. Buck to Head the Brooklyn Museum|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/02/19/arts/robert-t-buck-to-head-the-brooklyn-museum.html|access-date=October 5, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}|{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|993272465}} |title=Head for Brooklyn Museum |first=Amei |last=Wallach |date =February 19, 1983 |page =A20 |work=Newsday|issn=2574-5298}}}}</ref> and served until he resigned in 1996, upon which Linda S. Ferber became acting director.<ref name="The New York Times 1996 y791">{{cite news |date=May 27, 1996 |title=Brooklyn Museum Chief Resigns After 13 Years |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/27/arts/brooklyn-museum-chief-resigns-after-13-years.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152925/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/27/arts/brooklyn-museum-chief-resigns-after-13-years.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Arnold L. Lehman was named as the museum's director in April 1997,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Martin |first=Douglas |date=April 24, 1997 |title=New Brooklyn Museum Chief |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/24/arts/new-brooklyn-museum-chief.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230701152923/https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/24/arts/new-brooklyn-museum-chief.html |archive-date=July 1, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> and Lehman announced in September 2014 that he would retire the next year.<ref>{{cite news |last=Vogel |first=Carol |date=September 9, 2014 |title=Brooklyn Museum's Longtime Director Plans to Retire |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/arts/design/arnold-lehman-to-step-down-from-his-post.html |url-status=live |access-date=September 16, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210818215259/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/10/arts/design/arnold-lehman-to-step-down-from-his-post.html |archive-date=August 18, 2021}}</ref> In May 2015, [[Creative Time]] president and artistic director [[Anne Pasternak]] was named the museum's next director;<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lescaze |first1=Zoë |date=May 19, 2015 |title=Anne Pasternak Named Director of the Brooklyn Museum |work=ArtNews |url=http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/19/anne-pasternak-named-director-of-the-brooklyn-museum/ |url-status=live |access-date=June 13, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150615084600/http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/19/anne-pasternak-named-director-of-the-brooklyn-museum/ |archive-date=June 15, 2015}}</ref> she assumed the position on September 1, 2015.<ref name="The New York Times 2015 t867">{{cite news |date=May 19, 2015 |title=Brooklyn Museum Picks Anne Pasternak as New Director |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-picks-anne-pasternak-as-new-director.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230613220235/https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/20/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-picks-anne-pasternak-as-new-director.html |archive-date=June 13, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

Since 2014, the director's position has formally been known as the ''Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum'', after [[Leon Levy Foundation]] cofounder [[Shelby White]] donated $5 million to the directorship's endowment.<ref name="Artnet News 2014 i295">{{cite web |date=May 20, 2014 |title=$5 Million Gift Endows Brooklyn Museum Directorship |url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/5-million-gift-endows-brooklyn-museum-directorship-23920 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141140/https://news.artnet.com/art-world/5-million-gift-endows-brooklyn-museum-directorship-23920 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=Artnet News}}</ref><ref name="Kozinn 2014 o592">{{cite web |last=Kozinn |first=Allan |date=May 22, 2014 |title=$5 Million Gift to Endow Director's Position at Brooklyn Museum |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/5-million-gift-to-endow-directors-position-of-brooklyn-museum/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703141142/https://archive.nytimes.com/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/05/20/5-million-gift-to-endow-directors-position-of-brooklyn-museum/ |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |access-date=July 3, 2023 |website=ArtsBeat}}</ref>

=== Funding ===
According to the museum's website, it receives funding from the [[Government of New York City|city government]], Brooklyn [[borough president]]'s office, mayor's office, [[New York City Council]], [[Government of New York (state)|state government]], [[Government of the United States|federal government]], and other agencies.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Public Support">{{cite web |title=Public Support |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/public-support |access-date=October 5, 2023 |website=Brooklyn Museum}}</ref> 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]], in turn funded by New York City mayor [[Michael Bloomberg]].<ref name="roberts">{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/06donate.html?ex=1278302400&en=93a1beabd4ede5b8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss| title=City Groups Get Bloomberg Gift of $20 Million| first=Sam| last=Roberts| work=The New York Times| date=July 6, 2005| access-date=February 18, 2017| archive-date=April 25, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090425032407/http://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/06/nyregion/06donate.html?ex=1278302400&en=93a1beabd4ede5b8&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="carnegie">{{cite press release| url=http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-announces-twenty-million-dollars-in-new-york-city-grants/| title=Carnegie Corporation of New York announces twenty million dollars in New York City grants| publisher=Carnegie Corporation| date=July 5, 2005| access-date=August 1, 2014| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120914190110/http://carnegie.org/news/press-releases/story/news-action/single/view/carnegie-corporation-of-new-york-announces-twenty-million-dollars-in-new-york-city-grants/| archive-date=September 14, 2012}}</ref> Major benefactors have historically included [[Frank Lusk Babbott]]. The museum is the site of the annual Brooklyn Artists Ball which has included celebrity hosts such as [[Sarah Jessica Parker]] and [[Liv Tyler]].<ref name="ball">{{cite news| title=Brooklyn Museum's Artists Ball: Sarah Jessica Parker & Liv Tyler Broadcast Their Art Credit| url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/sarah-jessica-parker-and-_b_857422.html#s274395| work=[[Huffington Post]]| date=May 5, 2011| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=August 11, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811140945/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/artinfo/sarah-jessica-parker-and-_b_857422.html#s274395| url-status=live}}</ref>

Prior to the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], the Brooklyn Museum had an endowment of $108 million, but the museum applied for federal funding through the [[Paycheck Protection Program]] after its endowment declined by one-fifth in 2020.<ref name="Small Small 2020 a335">{{cite web |last=Small |first=Zachary |date=April 7, 2020 |title=After Losing $19 M., Brooklyn Museum Joins Other Arts Organizations in Applying for Federal Aid |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/brooklyn-museum-coronavirus-federal-aid-ppp-1202683329/ |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=ARTnews.com}}</ref> Amid the pandemic and its [[Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the arts and cultural heritage|negative impact]] on museum revenue, the museum raised funds for an endowment to pay for collections care by selling or [[deaccessioning]] works of art. The October 2020 sale consisted of 12 works by artists including [[Lucas Cranach the Elder]], [[Gustave Courbet]], and [[Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot]],<ref name="Pogrebin">{{cite news|last=Pogrebin|first=Robin|date=September 16, 2020|title=Brooklyn Museum to Sell 12 Works as Pandemic Changes the Rules|work=[[The New York Times]]|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-sale-christies-coronavirus.html|access-date=September 16, 2020|archive-date=August 25, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210825000504/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-sale-christies-coronavirus.html|url-status=live}}</ref> while other sales throughout that month included Modernist artists.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kenney |first1=Nancy |title=Brooklyn Museum steams ahead on deaccessioning |url=https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/brooklyn-museum-steams-ahead-on-deaccessioning |access-date=December 2, 2020 |work=www.theartnewspaper.com |date=October 16, 2020 |archive-date=May 8, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508023404/https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/brooklyn-museum-steams-ahead-on-deaccessioning |url-status=live }}</ref> Though usually prohibited by the [[Association of Art Museum Directors]], the association allowed such sales to proceed for a two-year window through 2022 in response to the effects of the pandemic.<ref>{{cite web|title=Association Of Art Museum Directors' Board Of Trustees Approves Resolution to Provide Additional Financial Flexibility to Art Museums During Pandemic Crisis|website=Association of Art Museum Directors|url=https://aamd.org/sites/default/files/press_release/20200415_Press%20Release_AAMD%20Resolution%20on%20Use%20of%20Funds_Final.pdf|access-date=September 16, 2020|archive-date=July 19, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719202625/https://aamd.org/sites/default/files/press_release/20200415_Press%20Release_AAMD%20Resolution%20on%20Use%20of%20Funds_Final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Art and exhibitions==
The Brooklyn Museum's collection contains around 500,000 objects.<ref name="nyt-2021-11-222" /> In the twentieth century, Brooklyn Museum exhibitions sought to present an encyclopedic view of art and culture, with a focus on educating a broad public.<ref name="Lawrence 1987" /> By the 21st century, the Brooklyn Museum frequently hosted shows that promoted cultural diversity and, in particular, underrepresented demographic groups.<ref name="nyt-2024-06-14">{{Cite news |last=Bellafante |first=Ginia |date=June 14, 2024 |title=The Brooklyn Museum Is Progressive. Why Is the Left Attacking It? |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/nyregion/brooklyn-museum-protests.html |access-date=June 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===Notable exhibitions===
In 1923, the museum was one of the first U.S. institutions to exhibit African cast-metal and other objects as art, rather than as ethnological artifacts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum {{!}} History, Collection, & Facts {{!}} Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art |access-date=June 15, 2023 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en |archive-date=April 26, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230426101700/https://www.britannica.com/topic/Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Mercer |first=Kobena |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gOGUEAAAQBAJ |title=Alain Locke and the Visual Arts |date=2022 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=978-0-300-24726-8 |language=en |access-date=June 15, 2023 |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725190716/https://books.google.com/books?id=gOGUEAAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum's acquisitions during this time also included such varied objects as the interior of a Swiss house,<ref name="p1112749912">{{cite news |date=March 31, 1926 |title=Brooklyn Museum Gift Is Swiss House Interior: Mrs. W. H. Childs Is Donor of Early 16th Century Specimen, Now Very Rare |page=13 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1112749912}}}}</ref> a stained glass window,<ref name="p1111998929">{{cite news |date=August 25, 1929 |title=Bush Memorial Window Set in Brooklyn Museum |page=F8 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1111998929}}}}</ref> and a pipe organ.<ref name="p1111983757">{{cite news |date=October 27, 1929 |title=Pipe Organ Is Gift To Brooklyn Museum: Mrs. Edward C. Blum, Donor; Presents Instrument Tomorrow |page=7 |work=New York Herald Tribune |issn=1941-0646 |id={{ProQuest|1111983757}}}}</ref> The museum's first period room opened in 1929; these period rooms represented middle-class and non-elite citizens' homes, in contrast to other museums. which tended to focus on upper-class period rooms.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Curran |first=Kathleen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LwVVDQAAQBAJ |title=The Invention of the American Art Museum: From Craft to Kulturgeschichte, 1870–1930 |date=July 1, 2016 |publisher=Getty Publications |isbn=978-1-60606-478-8 |language=en |access-date=June 15, 2023 |archive-date=July 25, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230725190716/https://books.google.com/books?id=LwVVDQAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref> The 17th-century [[Jans Martense Schenck house]] became part of the Brooklyn Museum's collection in the 1950s,<ref name="nyt-1950-04-17">{{Cite news |date=April 17, 1950 |title=Museum Acquires Oldest Home Here; a Gift to the Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1950/04/17/archives/museum-acquires-oldest-home-here-a-gift-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005228/https://www.nytimes.com/1950/04/17/archives/museum-acquires-oldest-home-here-a-gift-to-the-brooklyn-museum.html |url-status=live }}</ref> as did the interior of a room in [[John D. Rockefeller Jr.]]'s [[Midtown Manhattan]] home.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Knox |first=Sanka |date=June 16, 1951 |title=For Antiquarians: Brooklyn Museum Adds Victorian Interiors; One of 2 New Rooms Comes From Midtown Rockefeller Home |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1951/06/16/archives/for-antiquarians-brooklyn-museum-adds-victorian-interiors-one-of-2.html |access-date=July 23, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230723005232/https://www.nytimes.com/1951/06/16/archives/for-antiquarians-brooklyn-museum-adds-victorian-interiors-one-of-2.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1967 the Federated Institutes of Cultural Enrichment (FICE), a coalition of Brooklyn-based arts organizations, demanded that the Brooklyn Museum exhibit more works by artists from the borough, especially African American artists.<ref name="Anagnost 2020">{{Cite journal |last=Anagnost |first=Adrian |date=2020 |title=Decentralize! Art, Power, and Space in the New York Art World |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00233609.2020.1758205 |journal=Konsthistorisk Tidskrift/Journal of Art History |language=en |volume=89 |issue=2 |pages=100–125 |doi=10.1080/00233609.2020.1758205 |s2cid=221065038 |issn=0023-3609 |access-date=June 15, 2023 |archive-date=April 15, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210415150655/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00233609.2020.1758205 |url-status=live |url-access=subscription }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=David |first=Diana |date=1968–1969 |title=An Institute Reaches Out. The Brooklyn Museum and the Community |journal=Harvard Art Review |volume=3 |issue=Winter |pages=33–38}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Glueck |first=Grace |date=February 4, 1970 |title=Brooklyn Gallery In Fiscal Squeeze |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/04/archives/brooklyn-gallery-in-fiscal-squeeze-financial-problems.html |access-date=June 15, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190508235849/https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/04/archives/brooklyn-gallery-in-fiscal-squeeze-financial-problems.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum then hired black curator Henri Ghent to direct a new "Community Gallery", supported at first by the [[New York State Council on the Arts]];<ref name="Anagnost 2020" /> he worked at the museum till 1972.<ref name="nyt-1972-09-15">{{Cite news |last=McQuiston |first=John T. |date=September 15, 1972 |title=Mrs. Julia Hotton Is Appointed To New Brooklyn Museum Post |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/15/archives/mrs-julia-hotton-is-appointed-to-new-brooklyn-museum-post.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Ghent's first exhibition, ''Contemporary Afro-American Arts'' (1968), included artists [[Joe Overstreet]], [[Kay Brown (artist)|Kay Brown]], Frank Smith, and [[Otto Neals]].<ref name="p147830601" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Contemporary Afro-American Arts (1968), Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/2090 |access-date=June 15, 2023 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org |archive-date=January 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230120223913/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/2090 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In 1999–2000, the [[Sensation (art exhibition)|Sensation]] exhibition of [[Charles Saatchi]]'s collection provoked controversy for its inclusion of works such as [[Chris Ofili]]'s [[The Holy Virgin Mary]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Fraser |first=Andrea |date=2001 |title=A "Sensation" Chronicle |url=https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/4/article/31898 |journal=Social Text |volume=19 |issue=2 |pages=127–156 |doi=10.1215/01642472-19-2_67-127 |s2cid=145442596 |issn=1527-1951|url-access=subscription }}</ref> The exhibition prompted then-mayor [[Rudolph Giuliani]] to threaten to withhold city funding from the museum.<ref name="nyt-1999-09-29">{{Cite news |last=Barstow |first=David |date=September 29, 1999 |title=Brooklyn Museum Sues to Keep Mayor From Freezing Its Funds |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/29/nyregion/brooklyn-museum-sues-to-keep-mayor-from-freezing-its-funds.html |access-date=July 3, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703204045/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/09/29/nyregion/brooklyn-museum-sues-to-keep-mayor-from-freezing-its-funds.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In the resulting lawsuit,<ref>Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences v. City of New York, 64 F.Supp.2d 184 (E.D.N.Y. November 1, 1999)</ref> a U.S. district court judge ruled that the New York City government could not withhold city funds from the Brooklyn Museum on [[First Amendment]] grounds.<ref name="p279294754">{{cite news |last=Hurtado |first=Patricia |date=March 28, 2000 |title=Deal of the Art / Brooklyn Museum suit settled as Rudy, city told: Hands off |page=A03 |work=Newsday |issn=2574-5298 |id={{ProQuest|279294754}}}}</ref>

In 2002, the museum received the work ''[[The Dinner Party]]'', by feminist artist [[Judy Chicago]], as a gift from The Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation. Its permanent exhibition began in 2007, as a centerpiece for the museum's [[Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art]].  In 2004, the Brooklyn Museum featured ''Manifest Destiny'', an {{convert|8|x|24|ft|m|adj=on}} oil-on-wood mural by [[Alexis Rockman]] that was commissioned by the museum as a centerpiece for the second-floor Mezzanine Gallery and marked the opening of the museum's renovated Grand Lobby and plaza.<ref name="yablonsky">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/arts/art-architecture-new-york-s-watery-new-grave.html |title=New York's Watery New Grave |last=Yablonsky |first=Linda |date=November 4, 2004 |work=The New York Times |access-date=October 14, 2010 |archive-date=August 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210827211619/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/11/arts/art-architecture-new-york-s-watery-new-grave.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=rockman>{{cite press release |url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/uploads/2004_03_alexis_rockman.pdf |title=Alexis Rockman Mural of Future Brooklyn Celebrates Opening of the Brooklyn Museum New Front Entrance and Plaza |date=March 2004 |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=October 18, 2010}}</ref>  Other exhibitions have showcased the works of various contemporary artists including [[Patrick Kelly (fashion designer)|Patrick Kelly]], [[Chuck Close]], [[Denis Peterson]], [[Ron Mueck]], [[Takashi Murakami]], [[Mat Benote]],<ref name=hangin>{{cite news| url=http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/09/29/2009-09-29_artist_slips_in_stealth_exhibit.html| location=New York| work=[[Daily News (New York)|Daily News]]| title=Hangin' with big boys: Artist slips in stealth exhibit at Brooklyn Museum| first=Mike| last=Mclaughlin| date=September 28, 2009| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=October 2, 2009| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091002225407/http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/brooklyn/2009/09/29/2009-09-29_artist_slips_in_stealth_exhibit.html| url-status=live}}</ref> [[Kiki Smith]], [[Jim Dine]], [[Robert Rauschenberg]], [[Ching Ho Cheng]], [[Sylvia Sleigh]] [[William Wegman (photographer)|William Wegman]], [[Jimmy De Sana|Jimmy de Sana]], [[Oscar yi Hou]], [[Baseera Khan]], [[Lorraine O'Grady|Loraine O'Grady]], [[John Edmonds (artist)|John Edmonds]], [[Cecilia Vicuña]], [[Sonia Guiñansaca]], and a 2004 survey show of work by Brooklyn artists, ''Open House: Working in Brooklyn''<ref name=openhouse>{{cite press release| title=Open House: Working in Brooklyn| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/open_house/| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| date=April 17, 2004| access-date=August 1, 2014}}</ref>

In 2008, curator Edna Russman announced that she believes 10 out of 30 works of [[Coptic art]] held in the museum's collection—second-largest in North America are fake.  The artworks were exhibited starting in 2009.<ref name="russmanadmits">{{cite news| title=New York museum admits third of its Coptic art is fake| work=[[The Independent]]| date=July 2, 2008| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-museum-admits-third-of-its-coptic-art-is-fake-858345.html| access-date=July 7, 2008| location=London| first=David| last=Usborne| archive-date=July 6, 2008| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706201146/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/new-york-museum-admits-third-of-its-coptic-art-is-fake-858345.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

In early to mid-2018, the museum hosted what was the final stop of the touring exhibit ''[[David Bowie Is]]'', which had begun in 2013 in London and visited nearly a dozen countries before reaching the Brooklyn Museum.<ref name=MSN1>{{cite magazine | url=https://www.billboard.com/music/rock/david-bowie-exhibit-brooklyn-museum-8223846/ | title=David Bowie Retrospective Starts Its Final Bow at Brooklyn Museum | date=March 1, 2018 | access-date=December 24, 2020 | first=Mary | last=von Aue | magazine=Billboard}}</ref> Costumes from ''[[The Crown (TV series)|The Crown]]'' and ''[[The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)|The Queen's Gambit]]'' television series were put on display as part of its virtual exhibition ''"The Queen and the Crown"'' in November 2020.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.tatlerasia.com/culture/entertainment/hk-queens-gambit-the-crown-virtual-exhibition |title=Costumes From Netflix's "The Queen's Gambit" And "The Crown" Featured At The Brooklyn Museum |website=Tatler Asia |first=Jianne |last=Soriano |date=November 4, 2020 |access-date=November 26, 2020 |archive-date=August 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210828152133/https://www.tatlerasia.com/culture/entertainment/hk-queens-gambit-the-crown-virtual-exhibition |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/queen_and_crown |title=The Queen and The Crown: A Virtual Exhibition of Costumes from "The Queen's Gambit" and "The Crown" |website=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=November 26, 2020 |archive-date=November 27, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201127081447/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/queen_and_crown |url-status=live }}</ref>  From June through September 2023, coinciding with the fiftieth anniversary of [[Pablo Picasso]]'s death, the museum hosted ''It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby'', curated by [[Hannah Gadsby]];<ref name="BM-Pablo">{{cite web |title=It's Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/its_pablo_matic_picasso_according_to_hannah_gadsby |website=Brooklyn Museum |access-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-date=June 1, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601013751/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/its_pablo_matic_picasso_according_to_hannah_gadsby |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Greenberger |first1=Alex |title=Comedian Hannah Gadsby to Curate Show About Picasso's 'Complicated Legacy' for Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hannah-gadsby-picasso-its-pablo-matic-brooklyn-museum-show-1234663627/ |access-date=June 1, 2023 |work=[[ARTnews]] |date=April 10, 2023 |archive-date=May 11, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230511134717/https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/hannah-gadsby-picasso-its-pablo-matic-brooklyn-museum-show-1234663627/ |url-status=live }}</ref> though the exhibition was popular, it was also highly controversial.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 9, 2023 |title=Hannah Gadsby's Picasso Show Was Meant to Ignite Debate. And It Did. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/arts/design/hannah-gadsby-picasso-brooklyn-museum-debate.html |access-date=June 14, 2024 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> To celebrate the 200th anniversary of the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library's incorporation, the museum launched a series of special exhibits and events in 2024.<ref name="Loos 2024 e466">{{cite web | last=Loos | first=Ted | title=At 200, the Brooklyn Museum Looks Forward | website=The New York Times | date=February 1, 2024 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-200th-anniversary.html | access-date=February 1, 2024|postscript=none}}; {{cite web | last=Rotuno-Johnson | first=Michelle | title=Yearlong 200th Birthday Bash Set For Brooklyn Museum Milestone | website=Prospect Heights-Crown Heights, NY Patch | date=February 1, 2024 | url=https://patch.com/new-york/prospectheights/yearlong-200th-birthday-bash-set-brooklyn-museum-milestone | access-date=February 1, 2024}}</ref>
==Collections==

===Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern Art===
The Brooklyn Museum has been building a collection of [[Egypt]]ian artifacts since the beginning of the twentieth century, incorporating both collections purchased from others, such as that of American [[Egyptology|Egyptologist]] [[Charles Edwin Wilbour]], whose heirs also donated his library to become the museum's Wilbour Library of Egyptology, and objects obtained during museum-sponsored archeological excavations. The Egyptian collection includes objects ranging from statuary, such as the well-known "Bird Lady" [[terra cotta]] figure, to [[papyrus]] documents (among others the [[Brooklyn Papyrus]]).<ref name="EgyptColHist">{{cite web| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/egyptian/copy/history| title=Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art: History| publisher=The Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624051215/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/egyptian/copy/history| archive-date=June 24, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref> The museum has nine mummified Egyptians.<ref name=LoosMelvin >{{cite news |last=Loos |first=Ted |date=6 May 2010 |title=Melvin the Mummy's New Clothes |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/arts/design/09mummies.html |work=New York Times |access-date=13 September 2024}}</ref>

The Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Near Eastern collections are housed in a series of galleries in the museum. Egyptian artifacts can be found in the long-term exhibit, ''Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity'', as well as in the Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Galleries. Near Eastern artifacts are located in the [[Hagop Kevorkian]] Gallery.<ref name="EgyptColHist" />

====Selections from the Egyptian collection====
<gallery widths="140" heights="140">
File:PredynasticFemaleFigurine BrooklynMuseum.png|The "Bird Lady" sculpture, Predynastic female figurine
File:Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, Mummy Chamber, 31.1777e.jpg|Book of the Dead of the Goldworker of Amun, Sobekmose, 31.1777e
File:Roll, 664 - 332 B.C.E. Brooklyn Papyrus 47.218.48a-f.jpg|Brooklyn Papyrus, 664–332 BCE
File:Brooklyn Museum - Lady Tjepu - overall.jpg|[[Painting of Lady Tjepu]], New Kingdom Dynasty 18, Reign of [[Amunhotep III]], {{Circa|1390}}–1352 BCE, from tomb no. 181 at Thebes, 65.197
File:Pair statue of Nebsen and Nebet-Ta.jpg|Pair statue of husband and wife Nebsen and Nebet-ta. New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, reign of Thutmose IV or Amenhotep III, {{Circa|1400}}–1352 BCE.
</gallery>

===American art===
[[File:Gilbert Stuart - George Washington - Google Art Project (6966745).jpg|thumb|upright|[[Gilbert Stuart]], ''Portrait of [[George Washington]]'', 1796]]

[[Francis Guy]]'s ''Winter Scene in Brooklyn'' ({{circa}} 1820<ref>{{Cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=December 23, 2005|title=The Modern Receives 3 Works by Brice Marden|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/the-modern-receives-3-works-by-brice-marden.html|access-date=July 3, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=July 3, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230703151307/https://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/23/arts/design/the-modern-receives-3-works-by-brice-marden.html|url-status=live}}</ref>) was the first object in the museum's collection of American art, bequeathed in 1846. In 1855, the museum officially designated a collection of American Art, with the first work commissioned for the collection being a landscape painting by [[Asher B. Durand]]. Items in the American Art collection include portraits, pastels, sculptures, and prints; all items in the collection date to between c. 1720 and c. 1945.

Represented in the American art collection are works by artists such as [[William Edmondson]] (''Angel'', date unknown), [[John Singer Sargent]]'s ''[[Paul César Helleu]] sketching his wife Alice Guérin'' (ca. 1889); [[Georgia O'Keeffe]]'s ''Dark Tree Trunks'' (ca. 1946), and [[Winslow Homer]]'s ''[[Eight Bells (painting)|Eight Bells]]'' (ca. 1887). Among the most famous works in the collection are [[Gilbert Stuart]]'s portrait of [[George Washington]] and [[Edward Hicks]]'s [[Edward Hicks|''The Peaceable Kingdom'']]. The museum also holds a collection by [[Emil Fuchs (artist)|Emil Fuchs]].<ref name=fuchs>{{cite web| title=Collections: Emil Fuchs| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/1630/Emil_Fuchs/objects/index/0| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=February 24, 2015| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150224224332/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/artists/1630/Emil_Fuchs/objects/index/0| url-status=live}}</ref>

Works from the American art collection can be found in various areas of the museum, including in the Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden and in the exhibit, ''American Identities: A New Look'', which is contained within the museum's ''Visible Storage ▪ Study Center''.<ref name="AmColHist">{{cite web| title=Collections: History| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/american_art/copy/history| publisher=The Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624003337/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/american_art/copy/history| archive-date=June 24, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref> In total, there are approximately 2,000 American Art objects held in storage.<ref name="AmColNo">{{cite web| title=Confounding Expectations with Brooklyn Museum's Laval Bryant| url=https://trending.virginholidays.co.uk/new-york-city/interview-the-brooklyn-museum| publisher=Virgin Holidays| access-date=November 8, 2018| archive-date=August 29, 2021| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210829123607/https://trending.virginholidays.co.uk/new-york-city/interview-the-brooklyn-museum| url-status=live}}</ref>

====Selections from the American collection====
<gallery widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Brooklyn Museum - George Washington - Charles Willson Peale - overall.jpg|[[Charles Willson Peale]], ''George Washington'', c. 1776
File:Brooklyn Museum - Colonel Isaac Barré - Gilbert Stuart - overall.jpg|[[Gilbert Stuart]], ''[[Portrait of Isaac Barré]]'', 1785
File:Brooklyn Museum - Portrait of John Adams - Samuel Finley Breese Morse - overall.jpg|[[Samuel Morse]], ''Portrait of John Adams'', 1816
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Peaceable Kingdom - Edward Hicks - overall.jpg|[[Edward Hicks]], ''The Peaceable Kingdom'', c. 1830–1840
File:Brooklyn Museum - Wild Turkey - John J. Audubon.jpg|[[John J. Audubon]], ''Wild Turkey'', lithograph, c. 1861
image:Brooklyn Museum - A Ride for Liberty -- The Fugitive Slaves - Eastman Johnson -  overall.jpg|[[Eastman Johnson]], ''A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves'', c. 1862
File:Brooklyn Museum - Evening Glow The Old Red Cow - Albert Pinkham Ryder - overall.jpg|[[Albert Pinkham Ryder]], ''Evening Glow The Old Red Cow'', 1870–1875
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Waste of Waters is Their Field - Albert Pinkham Ryder - overall.jpg|[[Albert Pinkham Ryder]], ''The Waste of Waters is Their Field'', 1880
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Northeaster - Winslow Homer - overall.jpg|[[Winslow Homer]], ''The Northeaster'', c. 1883
File:Brooklyn Museum - Moonlight - Ralph Albert Blakelock - overall.jpg|[[Ralph Albert Blakelock]], ''Moonlight'', 1885
File:Brooklyn Museum - Sunrise - George Inness - overall - 2.jpg|[[George Inness]], ''Sunrise'', 1887
File:Thomas Eakins - Letitia Wilson Jordan - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Thomas Eakins]], ''Letitia Wilson Jordan'', 1888
File:Brooklyn Museum - An Out-of-Doors Study - John Singer Sargent - overall.jpg|[[John Singer Sargent]], ''[[Paul César Helleu]] Sketching with His Wife'', 1889
File:Brooklyn Museum - La Toilette - Mary Cassatt.jpg|[[Mary Cassatt]], ''La Toilette'', c. 1889–1894
File:Brooklyn Museum - Late Afternoon, New York, Winter - Frederick Childe Hassam - overall.jpg|[[Childe Hassam]], ''Late Afternoon, New York, Winter'', c. 1900
File:William Rush carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill river.png|[[Thomas Eakins]], ''William Rush Carving his Allegorical Figure of the Schuylkill River'', 1908
File:William Glackens - Nude with Apple - Google Art Project.jpg|[[William Glackens]], ''Nude with Apple'', 1909–1910
A Morning Snow-Hudson River at the Brooklyn Museum (80534)a.jpg|[[George Bellows]], ''A Morning Snow – Hudson River'', 1910
File:Night, from Pennsylvania Station, by Weinman, at Brooklyn Museum, NY.jpg|[[Adolph Weinman]], ''Night'', c. 1910
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Arch - Henry Ossawa Tanner - overall.jpg|[[Henry Ossawa Tanner]], ''The Arch'', c. 1914
File:Brooklyn Museum - Blue 1 - Georgia O'Keeffe.jpg|[[Georgia O'Keeffe]], ''Blue 1'', 1916
File:Brooklyn Museum - Landscape New Mexico - Marsden Hartley.jpg|[[Marsden Hartley]], ''Landscape, New Mexico'', 1916–1920
File:Brooklyn Museum - Untitled - Joseph Rusling Meeker.jpg|[[Joseph Rusling Meeker]], ''The Acadians in the Achafalaya, "Evangeline"'', 1871
</gallery>

===Asian art===
In 2019, the museum reopened its Japanese and Chinese exhibits, after reinstalling its Korean section in 2017.<ref name="NYT Asian">{{Cite news|last=Heinrich|first=Will|date=December 26, 2019|title=5,000 Years of Asian Art in 1 Single, Thrilling Conversation|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-arts-of-asia.html|access-date=July 3, 2023|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=August 30, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210830221605/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/26/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-arts-of-asia.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The Chinese section offers pieces from more than 5,000 years of Chinese art and shows contemporary pieces on a regular schedule.<ref name="NYT Asian"/> The Japanese gallery, with its 7,000 pieces, is the largest of the museum's Asian collection and is known for its works from the [[Ainu people]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Williamson |first1=Alex |title=Revamped Asian galleries at Brooklyn Museum set to reopen after 6 years |url=https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/08/19/revamped-asian-galleries-at-brooklyn-museum-set-to-reopen-after-6-years/ |work=Brooklyn Eagle |date=August 19, 2019 |access-date=July 8, 2021 |archive-date=July 9, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709190239/https://brooklyneagle.com/articles/2019/08/19/revamped-asian-galleries-at-brooklyn-museum-set-to-reopen-after-6-years/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum also possesses a special edition of ''[[One Hundred Famous Views of Edo]]'' that incorporates special metallic dust. It was donated to the museum in the 1930s, unbound in the 1970s, put on display in 2000, and then displayed again in 2024.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Heinrich|first=Will|date=July 4, 2024|title=The Dazzling Artistry of Hiroshige's '100 Famous Views of Edo'|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/04/arts/design/hiroshige-art-brooklyn-museum-woodblock.html|access-date=July 23, 2024|work=The New York Times|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The museum is also home to works from Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan and southeast Asia.<ref>{{cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/2 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org |access-date=June 28, 2021 |archive-date=September 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927110343/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Arts of Africa===
The oldest acquisitions in the African art collection were collected by the museum in 1900, shortly after the museum's founding.<ref name="p1239979288">{{Cite magazine |last=Rovine |first=Victoria L. |date=Winter 2012 |title=African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum |magazine=African Arts |volume=45 |issue=4 |pages=94–95 |id={{ProQuest|1239979288}}}}</ref> The collection was expanded in 1922 with items originating largely in what is now the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. The next year, the museum hosted one of the first exhibitions of African art in the United States.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Siegmann Adandé Dumouchelle 2009 p.">{{cite book |author=Brooklyn Museum |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1ABtPgAACAAJ |title=African Art: A Century at the Brooklyn Museum |last2=Siegmann |first2=W. |last3=Adandé |first3=J.C.E. |last4=Dumouchelle |first4=K.D. |publisher=Brooklyn Museum |year=2009 |isbn=978-3-7913-4321-1 |page=}}</ref>

The Brooklyn Museum's African art collection includes more than 6,000 objects.<ref>{{cite web | title=The Arts of Africa | website=Brooklyn Museum | date=May 24, 2001 | url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/exhibitions/654 | access-date=July 21, 2024}}</ref> The African art collection covers 2,500 years of human history and includes sculpture, jewelry, masks, and religious artifacts from more than 100 African cultures. Noteworthy items in this collection include a carved ''ndop'' figure of a Kuba king, believed to be among the oldest extant ''ndop'' carvings, and a Lulua mother-and-child figure.<ref name="AfricanColHist">{{cite web| title=Collections: History| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/african_art/copy/history| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624011943/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/african_art/copy/history| archive-date=June 24, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref>

In 2018, the museum drew criticism from groups including [[Decolonize This Place]] for its hiring of a white woman as Consulting Curator of African Arts.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2018/04/30/brooklyn-not-sale-decolonize-place-leads-protest-brooklyn-museum/|title='Brooklyn Is Not for Sale': Decolonize This Place Leads Protest at Brooklyn Museum|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|date=April 30, 2018|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=October 14, 2018|archive-date=October 15, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181015002917/http://www.artnews.com/2018/04/30/brooklyn-not-sale-decolonize-place-leads-protest-brooklyn-museum/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://gothamist.com/2018/04/30/brooklyn_museum_protest.php#photo-1|title='Decolonize This Place' Protesters Disrupt Brooklyn Museum, Condemn 'Imperial Plunder'|work=Gothamist|access-date=October 14, 2018|language=en-US|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180817020445/http://gothamist.com/2018/04/30/brooklyn_museum_protest.php#photo-1|archive-date=August 17, 2018|url-status=dead}}</ref>

====Selections from the African collection====
<gallery>
File:WLA brooklynmuseum Bushoong Kuba Ndop Portrait of K.jpg|[[Ndop (Kuba)|Kuba Ndop]] portrait
File:Brooklyn-Museum 81.168.1 Equestrian-Figure Gold-Weight cropped.png|Golden rider of the Ashanti region culture in Ghana
</gallery>

===Arts of the Pacific Islands===
The museum's collection of Pacific Islands art began in 1900 with the acquisition of 100 wooden figures and [[shadow play|shadow puppets]] from [[New Guinea]] and the [[Dutch East Indies]] (now [[Indonesia]]); since that base, the collection has grown to encompass close to 5,000 works. Art in this collection is sourced to numerous Pacific and Indian Ocean islands including [[Hawaii]] and New Zealand, as well as less-populous islands such as [[Rapa Nui]] and [[Vanuatu]]. Many of the [[Marquesas Islands|Marquesan]] items in the collection were acquired by the museum from famed Norwegian explorer [[Thor Heyerdahl]].<ref name="PacColHist">{{cite web| title=Collections: History| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/pacific/copy/history| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624025049/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/pacific/copy/history| archive-date=June 24, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref>

Art objects in this collection are crafted from a wide variety of materials. The museum lists "coconut fiber, feathers, shells, clay, bone, human hair, wood, moss, and spider webs"<ref name="PacColHist"/> as among the materials used to make artworks that include masks, [[tapa cloth]]s, sculpture, and jewelry.

===Arts of the Islamic world===
The museum also has art objects and historical texts produced by Muslim artists or about Muslim figures and cultures.<ref name=IslamicCol>{{cite web| title=Collections: Arts of the Islamic World| url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/arts_of_the_islamic_world| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=August 21, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821000542/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/arts_of_the_islamic_world| url-status=live}}</ref>

====Selections from the Islamic world collection====
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File:Brooklyn Museum - Bahram Gur and Courtiers Entertained by Barbad the Musician Page from a manuscript of the Shahnama of Firdawsi (d. 1020).jpg|''[[Bahram Gur]] and Courtiers Entertained by [[Barbad]] the Musician'', page from [[Shahnama]] of [[Ferdowsi]]
File:Umurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains, ca. 1570..jpg|''Zumurrud Shah Takes Refuge in the Mountains,'' ca. 1570
File:Mihr 'Ali (Iranian, active ca. 1800-1830). Portrait of Fath 'Ali Shah Qajar, 1815.jpg|[[Mihr 'Ali]] (Iranian, active ca. 1800–1830). ''Portrait of [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]]'', 1815.
File:Brooklyn Museum - Prince Yahya.jpg|[[Muhammad Hasan]] (Persian, active 1808–1840). ''Prince Yahya'', ca. 1830s.
File:Bowl with Kufic Inscription, 10th century.jpg|Bowl with [[Kufic]] inscription, 10th century
</gallery>

===The Jarvis Collection of Native American Plains Art===
The Museum has a collection of Native America Artifacts acquired by Dr. Nathan Sturges Jarvis (surgeon) who was stationed at Fort Snelling, Minnesota 1833–1836.<ref name="Jarvis">The Jarvis Collection of Native American Plains Art, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn New York,[https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/geographicallocations/2309371] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006011227/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/geographicallocations/2309371|date=October 6, 2021}}</ref>

<gallery>
File:Inlaid Pipe Bowl with Two Faces, 50.67.104 profile PS9.jpg|Inlaid pipe bowl with two faces collected at [[Fort Snelling]] 1833-1836
</gallery>

===Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art===
{{main|Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art}}
The museum's center for [[feminist art]] opened in 2007.<ref name="Newspaper 2007 s444">{{cite web |date=March 21, 2007 |title=Feminist Art takes wing in Brooklyn |url=https://www.archpaper.com/2007/03/feminist-art-takes-wing-in-brooklyn/ |access-date=August 4, 2023 |website=The Architect's Newspaper}}</ref><ref name="Hajela 2007 k717" /> Spanning {{Convert|8300|ft2}},<ref name="Hajela 2007 k717" /> it is dedicated to preserving the history of the movement since the late 20th century, as well as raising awareness of feminist contributions to art, and informing the future of this area of artistic dialogue.  Along with an exhibition space and library, the center features a gallery housing a masterwork by [[Judy Chicago]], a large installation called ''[[The Dinner Party]]'' (1974–1979).<ref name="micucci">{{Cite news |last=Micucci |first=Dana |date=April 19, 2007 |title=Feminist art gets place of pride in Brooklyn |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/arts/19iht-raafemina-28463.html |url-status=live |access-date=July 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126095001/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/19/arts/19iht-raafemina-28463.html |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===European art===
The Brooklyn Museum has among others late Gothic and Early [[Italian Renaissance]] paintings by [[Lorenzo di Niccolo]] ("Scenes from the life of Saint Lawrence"), [[Sano di Pietro]], [[Nardo di Cione]], [[Lorenzo Monaco]], Donato de' Bardi ("Saint Jerome"), [[Giovanni Bellini]]. It has Dutch paintings by [[Frans Hals]], [[Gerard Dou]], and [[Thomas de Keyser]] as well as others. It has 19th-century French paintings by [[Charles Daubigny]], [[Narcisse Virgilio Díaz]], [[Eugène Boudin]] ("Port, Le Havre"), [[Berthe Morisot]], [[Edgar Degas]], [[Gustave Caillebotte]] ("Railway Bridge at Argenteuil"), [[Claude Monet]] ("Doges Palace, Venice"), the French sculptor [[Alfred Barye]], [[Camille Pissarro]], and [[Paul Cézanne]] as well as many others.

====Selections from the European collection====
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File:Brooklyn Museum - Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb - Lorenzo di Niccolò.jpg|[[Lorenzo di Niccolò]], ''Saint Lawrence Buried in Saint Stephen's Tomb'', 1410–1414, tempera and tooled gold on poplar, 33 × 36&nbsp;cm
File:Brooklyn Museum - Madonna and Child with Saints James Major and John the Evangelist altarpiece - Sano di Pietro.jpg|[[Sano di Pietro]], ''Triptych of Madonna with Child, St. James and St. John the Evangelist'', {{circa|1460}} and 1462
File:The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun.jpg|[[William Blake]] (British, 1757–1827) ''The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed with the Sun'' (Rev. 12: 1–4), ca. 1803–1805
File:Brooklyn Museum - Desdemona Cursed by her Father (Desdemona maudite par son père) - Eugène Delacroix.jpg|[[Eugène Delacroix]], ''Desdemona Cursed by her Father (Desdemona maudite par son père)'', {{circa|1850}}–1854
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Two Colleagues (Lawyers) (Les deux confrères Avocats) - Honoré Daumier.jpg|[[Honoré Daumier]], ''The Two Colleagues'' (Lawyers) (''Les deux confrères Avocats''), between 1865 and 1870
File:Brooklyn Museum - The Edge of the Pool (Au Bord de l'Etang) - Gustave Courbet.jpg|[[Gustave Courbet]], ''The Edge of the Pool'', 1867
File:Edgar Degas - Portrait de Mlle Eugénie Fiocre.jpg|[[Edgar Degas]], ''Portrait de Mlle Eugénie Fiocre'', 1867–1868
File:Brooklyn Museum - Flood at Moret (Inondation à Moret) - Alfred Sisley - overall.jpg|[[Alfred Sisley]], ''Flood at Moret (Inondation à Moret)'', 1879
File:Brooklyn Museum - Apple Tree in Bloom (Pommier en fleurs) - Gustave Caillebotte.jpg|[[Gustave Caillebotte]], ''Apple Tree in Bloom (Pommier en fleurs)'', {{circa|1885}}
File:Brooklyn Museum - Fin du travail (The End of the Working Day) - Jules Breton.jpg|[[Jules Breton]], ''Fin du travail (The End of the Working Day)'', {{circa|1886}}–1887
File:Brooklyn Museum - Cypresses (Les Cyprès) - Vincent van Gogh.jpg|[[Vincent van Gogh]], ''Cypresses (Les Cyprès),'' 1889, reed pen, graphite, quill, brown ink and black ink on white wove latune et cie balcons paper
File:Brooklyn Museum - At the Moulin Rouge (Au Moulin Rouge) - Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.jpg|[[Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]], ''At the Moulin Rouge (Au Moulin Rouge)'', c. 1892
File:Brooklyn Museum - Church at Vernon - Claude Monet - overall.jpg|[[Claude Monet]], ''The Church at Vernon'', 1894
File:Brooklyn Museum - Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil) - Claude Monet.jpg|[[Claude Monet]], ''Houses of Parliament Sunlight Effect (Le Parlement effet de soleil)'', 1903
File:Brooklyn Museum - Clouds over the Black Sea--Crimea - Boris Israelevich Anisfeld.jpg|[[Boris Anisfeld]], ''[[Clouds over the Black Sea - Crimea]]'' (1906)
File:Claude Monet - The Doges Palace (Le Palais ducal) - Google Art Project.jpg|[[Claude Monet]], ''The Doge's Palace (Le Palais ducal)'', 1908
File:Pierre-Auguste Renoir - Les Vignes à Cagnes.jpg|[[Pierre-Auguste Renoir]], ''Les Vignes à Cagnes'', 1908
File:Brooklyn Museum - Landscape in Provence (Paysage de Provence) - André Derain.jpg|[[André Derain]], ''Landscape in Provence'' (''Paysage de Provence''), c. 1908
</gallery>

=== Other collections ===
The museum's costume collection was created in 1946,<ref name=nyt-2008-12-15/> and the Textile and Costume Collection was unveiled in 1977.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Dunning |first=Jennifer |date=March 31, 1977 |title=A Fabric Library at the Brooklyn Museum |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/03/31/archives/a-fabric-library-at-the-brooklyn-museum.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> The collection, composed of American and European attire, was described by ''The New York Times'' as "one of the best in the world".<ref name=nyt-2008-12-15/> Removed from public display in 1991,<ref name="Carlson 2008 z215">{{cite web | last=Carlson | first=Jen | title=Brooklyn's Couture Collection Moves to the Met | website=Gothamist | date=December 17, 2008 | url=https://gothamist.com/arts-entertainment/brooklyns-couture-collection-moves-to-the-met | access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref> the collection was transferred to the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]]'s [[Anna Wintour Costume Center|Costume Institute]] in 2008.<ref name=nyt-2008-12-15>{{Cite news|last=Vogel|first=Carol|date=December 15, 2008|title=Brooklyn Museum's Costume Treasures Going to the Met|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/16/arts/design/16muse.html|access-date=October 5, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref><ref name=Zeke2008>{{cite web | last=Faux | first=Zeke | title=Brooklyn Museum gives a huge gift to the Met | website=Brooklyn Paper | date=December 17, 2008 | url=https://www.brooklynpaper.com/brooklyn-museum-gives-a-huge-gift-to-the-met/ | access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref>

The Brooklyn Museum has had a photography collection since the 19th century. The museum initially did not seek out photographs for its collection, which was initially composed exclusively of photographers' and collectors' gifts.<ref name=nyt-1984-08-05>{{Cite news|last=Thornton|first=Gene|date=August 5, 1984|title=Photography View; in Brooklyn, a Modest Collection is Shown to Advantage|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/08/05/arts/photography-view-in-brooklyn-a-modest-collection-is-shown-to-advantage.html|access-date=October 5, 2023|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Since 1993, the collection has been part of the Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Photography">{{cite web | title=Collection: Photography | website=Brooklyn Museum | url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/3 | access-date=October 5, 2023}}</ref>

The museum's Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden has salvaged architectural elements from throughout New York City.<ref name="Spelling">{{cite news |last=Spelling |first=Simon |title=Entertainment: Brooklyn Museum |url=http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/brooklyn-museum-of-art/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120508193259/http://nymag.com/listings/attraction/brooklyn-museum-of-art/ |archive-date=May 8, 2012 |access-date=August 1, 2014 |work=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]}}</ref> The sculpture garden dates from 1966<ref name="The New York Times 1966 h933" /><ref name="n129433299" /> and includes objects such as the [[Bayard–Condict Building]]'s [[Capital (architecture)|capitals]] and the sculptures at the [[Manhattan Bridge]]'s Brooklyn entrance.<ref name="Grimes" />

==Libraries and archives==
{{main|Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives}}
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives hold approximately 300,000 volumes and over {{convert|3200|ft|m}} of archives.  The collection began in 1823 and is housed in facilities that underwent renovations in 1965, 1984 and 2014.<ref name=index>{{cite web| title=Archives Collections Index| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/copy/history| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629071956/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/copy/history| archive-date=June 29, 2014| url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="collection-library">{{cite web| title=Collections: Libraries and Archives| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=June 24, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624000510/http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/archives/| url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=renovatedlibrary>{{cite press release| title=Redesigned and Renovated Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives Opens to Public October 20, 2004| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/press/uploads/2004_09_libraries.pdf| date=September 2004| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014}}</ref>

==Programs==
The first Saturday of each month, the Brooklyn Museum stays open until 11{{nbsp}}pm, and general admission is waived after 5{{nbsp}}pm, although some ticketed exhibitions may require an entrance fee. Regular first Saturday activities include educational family-oriented activities such as collection-based art workshops, gallery tours, lectures, live performances dance parties.<ref name="FirstSat">{{cite web| url=http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php| title=Target First Saturdays at the Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| archive-date=August 21, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140821144510/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/first_saturdays.php| url-status=live}}</ref> The museum started hosting First Saturdays in October 1998,<ref name="nyt-1999-03-21">{{Cite news |last=Biederman |first=Marcia |date=March 21, 1999 |title=Making It Work; Saturday Night Moves |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/making-it-work-saturday-night-moves.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174126/https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/21/nyregion/making-it-work-saturday-night-moves.html |url-status=live }}</ref> and the event had attracted 1.5 million total visitors {{as of|2023|lc=y}}.<ref name="nyt-2023-02-03">{{Cite news |last=Richardson |first=Kalia |date=February 3, 2023 |title=Brooklyn Museum Celebrates 25 Years of First Saturdays |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-first-saturdays.html |access-date=July 21, 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=July 21, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230721174128/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/arts/design/brooklyn-museum-first-saturdays.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

As part of the Museum Apprentice Program, the museum hires teenage high schoolers 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 [[curator]]s, serve as a teen advisory board to the museum, and help plan teen events.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Apprentices">{{cite web |title=Museum Apprentice Program |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/education/teens/museum-apprentices |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Brooklyn Museum |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702023733/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/education/teens/museum-apprentices |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum also runs the Museum Education Fellowship Program, a ten-month position where fellows lead school group visits with a focus on various topics from the collection.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Fellows">{{cite web |title=Museum Education Fellowship Program |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/education/adults/education_fellowship |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=Brooklyn Museum |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702023736/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/education/adults/education_fellowship |url-status=live }}</ref> School Youth and Family Fellows teach Gallery Studio Programs and School Partnerships while Adult and Public Programs Fellows curate and organize Thursday night as well as First Saturday Programming.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum Fellows" />

The museum has posted many pieces to a digital collection that allows the public to [[folksonomy|tag]] and curate sets of objects online, as well as solicit additional scholarship contributions.<ref name=browse>{{cite web| title=Collections: Browse Collections| url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/| publisher=Brooklyn Museum| access-date=August 1, 2014| archive-date=August 20, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140820235904/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/collections/| url-status=live}}</ref> The museum's ASK App allows visitors to talk with staff and educators about works in the collection.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brooklyn Museum: ASK |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ask |access-date=October 28, 2017 |website=www.brooklynmuseum.org |archive-date=October 29, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171029012625/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ask |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Carman 2016 p482">{{cite web |last=Carman |first=Ashley |date=April 22, 2016 |title=The Brooklyn Museum's app acts like AI, but there are humans behind it |url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/22/11464054/brooklyn-museum-ask-app-bot-human |access-date=July 2, 2023 |website=The Verge |archive-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230702023733/https://www.theverge.com/2016/4/22/11464054/brooklyn-museum-ask-app-bot-human |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Attendance==
[[File:Brooklyn Museum - The Disciples Having Left Their Hiding Place Watch from Afar in Agony - James Tissot.jpg|thumb|[[James Tissot]], ''The Disciples Having Left Their Hiding Place Watch from Afar in Agony'', {{circa|1886–1894}}]]

Prior to World War II, the museum offered free admission and regularly attracted over a million annual visitors.<ref name="nyt-1993-11-30" /> In 1934, the museum reported 940,000 annual visitors, while its library had 40,000 visitors.<ref name="n128529674">{{Cite news |date=October 3, 1935 |title=Brooklyn Museum Urged to Center on Cultural Field |pages=13 |work=The Brooklyn Daily Eagle |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128529674/ |access-date=July 19, 2023 |archive-date=July 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230720001404/https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-brooklyn-museum/128529674/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Patronage declined along with Brooklyn's economy in the mid-20th century;<ref name="nyt-1993-11-30" /> there were about 470,000 visitors per year by the early 1950s.<ref name="nyt-1951-02-09" /> The museum recorded 1 million visitors in 1971 for the first time in almost four decades.<ref>{{Cite news |date=April 9, 1971 |title=Brooklyn Museum Gets Year's Millionth Visitor |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/09/archives/brooklyn-museurn-gets-years-millionth-visitor.html |access-date=October 4, 2023 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> During the mid-1980s, the museum had 300,000 visitors per year, much less than the [[Museum of Modern Art]] or the [[Metropolitan Museum of Art]] in Manhattan.<ref name="nyt-1985-01-22" /> Annual attendance at the museum, which had stagnated at 250,000 in the mid-1990s, had nearly doubled by 1999 after the museum held several popular exhibits,<ref name="n127641060" /> peaking at 585,000 in 1998.<ref name="NYT1">{{cite news |last=Pogrebin |first=Robin |date=June 14, 2010 |title=Brooklyn Museum's Populism Hasn't Lured Crowds |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/arts/design/15museum.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A17%22%7D&_r=0 |access-date=August 1, 2014 |archive-date=August 11, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811012613/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/15/arts/design/15museum.html?pagewanted=all&module=Search&mabReward=relbias%3Aw%2C%7B%222%22%3A%22RI%3A17%22%7D&_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref> The museum only had 326,000 visitors by 2009,<ref name="NYT1" /> but attendance had increased to 465,000 by 2017.<ref name="nyt-2017-04-30" />

''The New York Times'' attributed the drop in attendance partially to the policies instituted by then-current director Arnold Lehman, who has chosen to focus the museum's energy on "populism", with exhibits on topics such as "[[Star Wars]] movies and [[hip-hop]] music"<ref name="NYT1" /> rather than on more classical art topics. Lehman had also brought more controversial exhibits, such as a 1999 [[Sensation (exhibition)|show]] that included [[Chris Ofili]]'s infamous dung-decorated ''[[The Holy Virgin Mary]]'', to the museum.<ref name="artinfo">{{cite web| last=Bell| first=Jennie| title=Arnold Lehman| url=http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/24096/arnold-lehman/| work=BlouinArtInfo| publisher=blouinartinfo.com| access-date=January 12, 2016| archive-date=March 31, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160331181450/http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/24096/arnold-lehman| url-status=dead}}</ref> According to one observer:

<blockquote>The quality of their exhibitions has lessened", said Robert Storr, the dean of the Yale University School of Art and a Brooklynite. "{{'}}''Star Wars''{{'}} shows the worst kind of populism. I don't think they really understand where they are. The middle of the art world is now in Brooklyn; it's an increasingly sophisticated audience and always was one.<ref name="NYT1" /> </blockquote>

On the other hand, Lehman says that the demographics of museum attendees are showing a new level of diversity. According to ''The New York Times'', "the average age [of museum attendees in a 2008 survey] was 35, a large portion of the visitors (40 percent) came from Brooklyn, and more than 40 percent identified themselves as people of color."<ref name="NYT2" /> Lehman states that the museum's interest is in being welcoming and attractive to all potential museum attendees, rather than simply amassing large numbers of them.<ref name="NYT2">{{cite news| last=Lehman| first=Arnold| title=Response From the Director of the Brooklyn Museum| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/arts/design/08alsmail-BROOKLYNMUSEUM-LETTERS.html| access-date=August 1, 2014| newspaper=The New York Times| date=August 7, 2010| archive-date=August 11, 2014| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811012602/http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/arts/design/08alsmail-BROOKLYNMUSEUM-LETTERS.html| url-status=live}}</ref>

{{As of|2023}}, the Brooklyn Museum has a [[pay what you want]] policy for general-admission tickets.<ref name="Brooklyn Museum FAQ">{{cite web |title=FAQ |url=https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/faq |access-date=July 6, 2023 |website=Brooklyn Museum |archive-date=July 7, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230707161615/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/faq |url-status=live }}</ref> Half of patrons did not pay any admission in 2017.<ref name="nyt-2017-04-30" />

==Works and publications==
* {{cite book|last1=Choi|first1=Connie H.|last2=Hermo|first2=Carmen|last3=Hockley|first3=Rujeko|last4=Morris|first4=Catherine|last5=Weissberg|first5=Stephanie|editor1-last=Morris|editor1-first=Catherine|editor2-last=Hockley|editor2-first=Rujeko|title=[[We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965-1985|We Wanted a Revolution: Black Radical Women, 1965–85 / A Sourcebook]]|date=2017|publisher=Brooklyn Museum|location=Brooklyn, New York|isbn=978-0-872-73183-7|type=Exhibition catalog|oclc=964698467}} – Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, April 21 – September 17, 2017

==See also==
* [[Brooklyn Visual Heritage]]
* [[Education in New York City]]
* [[List of cases argued by Floyd Abrams]]
* [[List of museums and cultural institutions in New York City]]
* [[List of New York City Designated Landmarks in Brooklyn]]
* [[National Register of Historic Places listings in Brooklyn]]

==References==
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==External links==
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* {{Official website|http://www.brooklynmuseum.org }}
* [http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/brooklyn-museum-records-8453 Brooklyn Museum records, 1823–1963] from the Smithsonian [[Archives of American Art]].
* [https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/building Brooklyn Museum Building Online Exhibition] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210221160037/https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/features/building |date=February 21, 2021 }}
* {{Internet Archive collection|id=brooklynmuseum|name=Brooklyn Museum}}

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