Brooklyn Museum
Organization
Dates
- Existence: 1889
Functions
Places
- United States (Associated Country)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (Residence)
Languages Used
- English
Found in 178 Collections and/or Records:
Brooklyn Expedition Website, 1997-2004
File — Multiple Containers
Scope and Contents
Brooklyn Expedition was a collaborative and joint venture from the Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Brooklyn Public Library. All 3 institutions worked together to create a children's website that could be viewed in the Brooklyn Museum's Learning Center, or at school, or in the viewer's home. These folders contain strategic planning, meeting minutes, drafts of text, correspondence, and reports. The Brooklyn Museum's website was launched in 1996, so this is a...
Dates:
1997-2004
Brooklyn Museum Employees' Collection
Collection
Identifier: S-17
Scope and Contents
This artifical collection contains information on Brooklyn Museum staff events, activities, and demonstrations outside of work, or loosely related to work. It continues to expand and grow. Of special interest is the 1936 newsletter and press release that were created by the Communist Party Unit of the Brooklyn Museum which advocated for the Museum to pay for guards uniforms, as well as for staff to join anti-war and anti-fascist organizations. The newsletter was called Museum...
Dates:
1929-2024
Brooklyn Museum Ephemera Collection
Collection
Identifier: S-20
Abstract
The Brooklyn Museum Ephemera collection contains ephemera created by and about the Brooklyn Museum from 1895-2023. Records from this collection mainly include paper items, such as: advertisements, informational brochures, exhibit announcements, museum maps, as well as objects from the Museum’s gift shop. This collection traces the development of the Museum as a cultural institution and active participant in the Brooklyn community.
Dates:
1895 - 2023