Brooklyn Museum

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...

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Brooklyn Museum Audio/Visual Collection is an artificial collection composed of A/V materials from all departments of the Brooklyn Museum spanning 1950-2010. Largely, the collection documents public programs, educational tours, audio guides, curatorial interviews, and press relating to the Brooklyn Museum.

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...

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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.