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Records of the Community Gallery
Collection
Identifier: RG-05
Abstract
The Community Gallery records document the administrative and exhibition activities of the gallery from its founding in 1968 until its closure in early 1986. In 1967 members of the artist group FICE demanded that the Brooklyn Museum exhibit from the local community and display artwork created by BIPOC artists. In repsonse, the Museum created the Community Gallery and hired Henri Ghent, the first Black man in a Director/administrative role at the Museum. Ghent, and later Richard Waller in the...
Dates:
1967-1985
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
Records of the Registrar's Department
Collection
Identifier: RG-12
Scope and Contents
While primary responsibility for the generation and execution of exhibitions rests with the curatorial department, certain functions are performed by the Registrars office. Records reflecting these functions include loan agreements, outward loan forms, releases, receipts, insurance forms, packing and shipping orders and invoices, and condition notes. The Registrars' exhibition files also include materials which parallel or augment curatorial files, such as lists of objects,...
Dates:
1930 - 2002
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
Report and Survey collection
Collection
Identifier: S19
Dates:
1965 - 2003
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
Records of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-08
Scope and Contents
The records of the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art currently document the exhibitions, permanent gallery installations, Museum Spotlights, and administrative files created by the curatorial staff. The records currently span 2016-2024, but the collection will be expanding with additional records transfers sometime in the future. The collection includes research on artists/exhibitions, checklists, label copy and didactics, exhibition layouts, meeting minutes,...
Dates:
2016-2024
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
Security Department records
Collection
Identifier: SEC
Dates:
1972 - 1991
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
The Brooklyn Museum Publications Collection
Collection
Identifier: S-36
Abstract
The Brooklyn Museum Publications Collection is an artificial collections created by the archivists of the Brooklyn Museum to separate and identify Brooklyn Museum publications. Currently, the collection holds newsletters, bulletins, calendars of events, and other small Museum publications. It will expand in the future to contain exhibit catalogs, and other books published by the Museum. This collection is of interest for exhibition research, provenance research, and programming research.
Dates:
1944-2016
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
Visitor Comment Book Collection
Collection
Identifier: S-27
Scope and Contents
The Visitor Comment Book collection largely contains volumes of visitor comments on exhibitions and permanent gallery installations from 1977 to 2013. The collection also contains print outs of online comments from 2001 to 2013.
Dates:
1974-2013
Found in:
Brooklyn Museum Archives
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