Check back in late summer for a NEW museum adventure for ages 4–6! Calendar View a listing by month of programs for families of all ages. Birthday Parties Celebrate at the Brooklyn Museum! Available ...

Historical assessments of Catherine the Great have not been kind. She was, indeed, a complex and contradictory personality. Inspired by Enlightenment ideals, she was nevertheless threatened by their ...

The correct spelling of this name is ROSANA CHOUTEAU. Rosana Chouteau was elected chief of the Osage Beaver Band, a clan of the Native American Osage Nation, in 1875, following the death of her uncle.

Guided tours cost $3 per student. Each group may include up to 25 students and 5 chaperones. The first 5 chaperones per group are free; the fee for additional chaperones is $5 each. Advance payment is ...

Your safety, and that of our team, continues to be our top priority, and we’re following procedures and guidelines laid out by the CDC and local health officials. We have new policies in place to ...

The new Brooklyn Museum Café highlights the best of the borough’s culinary artisans and has something for everyone. Our current menu was created with acclaimed Brooklyn restaurateur and sommelier ...

Judy Chicago (American, b. 1939). The Dinner Party (Heritage Floor; detail), 1974–79. Porcelain with rainbow and gold luster, 48 x 48 x 48 ft. (14.6 x 14.6 x 14.6 m ...

Chitra Ganesh was born and raised in Brooklyn and Queens, and is currently based in Brooklyn. She completed her BA in Comparative Literature and Art—Semiotics from Brown University (1996), and her MFA ...

Artemisia I became the tyrant of Halicarnassus in the fifth century B.C.E. Legend states that she fought in the Battle of Salamis in 480 B.C.E. as a commander on the side of the Persians, who were ...

Born in 1962 in Zug (CH), Sabian Baumann studied visual arts from 1987 to 1991 at the University of the Arts in Zurich (CH) where s_he currently lives and works. Sabian Baumann’s oeuvre, which ...

Sofia Perovskaya advocated total equality between men and women in revolutionary work and was the first woman in Russia to be executed on political charges. Born into an aristocratic family and ...