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The Brooklyn Museum is one of the largest art museums in the United States with a permanent collection of more than one million object. It's McKim, Mead and White designed building, which opened in 1987 while building continued, is 562,000 square feet. The Museum's comprehensive permanent collections range from antiquity to the present and represent nearly every culture. Included are American and European paintings and sculpture, one of the most important collections of ancient Egyptian treasures in the world, African, Oceanic, Asian, Islamic, Native American, and Spanish colonial art, as well as rich holdings of prints, drawings, and photographs. The Museum also presents several temporary exhibitions each year as well as a wide range of public programs.
Hobbies & Activities category: Major world-scale museum;  African art, artifacts;  Decorative arts display;  Paintings, art collections;  Oriental art;  Photo collection, exhibit
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African, Oceanic and New World Art

The collections of African, Oceanic and New World Art represent a milestone of the Brooklyn Museum and museums in America. In 1923, the museum exhibit its African collection as art as opposed to
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Asian Art

The Asian art collection features Japanese and Chinese paintings, Islamic calligraphy, Chinese enamel work, and a wide range of Buddhist art.

Decorative Arts

The Decorative Arts collection is arranged in 28 American period rooms starting from the seventeenth-century. The Moorish Smoking Room from John Rockefeller's brownstone home is an example of
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Egyptian, Classical & Ancient Mid-Eastern collections

The Egyptian, Classical & Ancient Mid-Eastern collections are ranked among the world's finest, harking back to 3500 BC. The Egyptian collection contains sculptures, statues, tomb paintings and most
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Paintings & Sculptures

Paintings and sculptures date back to the fourteenth century and include nineteenth-century French art (Degas, Rodin, Matisse and others), Spanish colonial paintings and North American art
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs

The prints section includes Durer's woodcut print The Great Triumphal Chariot, Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works, and lithographs by Whistler. Drawings include those by Van Gogh, Picasso,
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Address
Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052
United States
Map Brooklyn Museum
Phone 1 (718) 638-5000
Fax 1 (718) 501-6136
http://www.brooklynmuseum.org
Hours
MonTueWedThuFriSatSun
OpenClosedClosed10:0010:0010:0011:0011:00
Closed17:0017:0017:0018:0018:00
Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1)
Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November)
Christmas - Christian (December 25)
Cost
Adult$8.00
Senior$4.00
Students$4.00
Child 11 & underFREE
Tips
Free to Members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult. Open the first Saturday of each month until 11pm.
Facilities
Gift shop
Restaurant or food service
Transit
Seventh Avenue IRT 2 or 3 to Eastern Parkway/Brooklyn Museum
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