Brooklyn Museum Staff petition to the Institute, March 11, 1974

The Brooklyn Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, the Brooklyn Children's Museum, and the Brooklyn Academy of Music were all sister cultural institutions under the umbrella of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences (BIAS). In the 1970s, the Children's Museum, the Botanic Garden, and the Academy of Music all decided to become their own independent cultural instituions away from BIAS. This folder contains a petition protesting the proposed re-organization of BIAS.