- The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum located in the New York City borough of Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Museum facts
- At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City's third largest in physical size and holds an art collection with roughly 1
- 5 million works
- Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn and founded in 1895, the Beaux-Arts building, designed by McKim, Mead and White, was planned to be the largest art museum in the world
- The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, only to be revitalized in the late 20th century, thanks to major renovations
- Significant areas of the collection include antiquities, specifically their collection of Egyptian antiquities spanning over 3,000 years
- African, Oceanic, and Japanese art make for notable antiquities collections as well
- American art is heavily represented, starting at the Colonial period
- Artists represented in the collection include Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber
- The museum also has a "Memorial Sculpture Garden" which features salvaged architectural elements from throughout New York City
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