The Brooklyn Muesum

Website: brooklynmuseum.org
Location:
200 Eastern Parkway
Brooklyn, New York 11238-6052
Hours:
Monday and Tuesday - Closed

Wednesday - 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

Thursday - 11 a.m. – 10 p.m.

Friday—Sunday - 11 a.m. – 6 p.m.

First Saturday of Each Month - 11 a.m. – 11 p.m. See Schedule

Admission:

The Brooklyn Museum has a suggested contribution of $10 for adults and $6 for Seniors and Students with valid I.D. Members and children under 12 accompanied by an adult are admitted for free.

Special Events: 
First Saturdays - On the first Saturday of every month there is an evening of free events sponsored by Target which start at 5pm and end at 11pm.
Thursdays @7 - The Brooklyn Museum is open until 10pm every Thursday.  Visitors are allowed to continue touring the galleries and enjoy the weekly event.  These events include, interviews, performances, films & tours.

For more information about the Brooklyn Museum just click on the link above.

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Today I will be exploring the Brooklyn Museum with one of my oldest and best friends, Lia.  As a teacher I have gone to the Brooklyn Museum many times with my 6th grade class for our unit on Ancient Egypt.  The Egypt collection and the Brooklyn Museum is wonderful and not overwhelming.  They have artifacts ranging from Predynastic Egypt to the New Kingdom.  My favorite artifact is the Book of the Dead, which was considered very important to have in your tomb to help you get through to the afterlife.

While the mummies, canopic jars, and coffins are fun and interesting, you will also find several well place interactive and kid friendly computers to help your little ones learn more about the Ancient Egyptian artifacts.

Since I have been to the Egypt section so many times, today I will be exploring other parts of the museum that I have not seen before.  Please join me on my journey to the Brooklyn Museum, and I hope after reading this you'll make plans to take a journey into Brooklyn to see this wonderful museum for yourself.

Today's visit took me to many parts of the museum that I have never been before.  We started on the 5th floor where we visited the American Identities exhibit in the Luce Center For American Art.

 On that same floor we found the Visible Storage - Study Center. While the American Identities exhibit was wonderful, the Visible Storage felt like we found a hidden closet of art that we were sneaking into.

 Next we made our way down to the 4th floor Where we found the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.  In this section we found the The Dinner Party by Judy Chicago.  This installment had two parts, the table settings which represented 39 women and the timeline which represented 999 women.  In all 1,038 women in history were represented.  I would have to say that this was my favorite exhibit, it was not only beautiful it was powerful.

I would not recommend these exhibits for young children, I don't think they would find them very interesting but there are many programs for both young children and teens that can be found on the Brooklyn Museum website.  I had a wonderful time visiting the Brooklyn Museum and I hope this post will inspire you to go enjoy it for yourself. 

Extra Info for Mom’s: The Brooklyn Museum is very breast feeding friendly.  The bathrooms on the 1^st floor and 3^rd floor have seating areas and is a great place to go if you need to take a break an feed.  The Café is also a great place to go and have snack while feeding.