Brooklyn Museum | |
NYC Landmark
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![]() At night (2015) | |
Location | 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238 |
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Coordinates | 40°40′16.7″N 73°57′49.5″W / 40.671306°N 73.963750°W |
Built | 1895 |
Architect | McKim, Mead & White; French, Daniel Chester |
Architectural style | Beaux-Arts |
NRHP reference No. | 77000944[1] |
Added to NRHP | August 22, 1977 |
The Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest art museum in New York City. It is also one of the largest in the United States.
The museum is at 200 Eastern Parkway, in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. Arnold L. Lehman is the museum's Director.
The Brooklyn Museum has more than one-and-a-half million objects. Some of these pieces of art are from as long ago as ancient Egypt while others are very recent. The museum is a 560,000 square foot (52,000 m²), Beaux-Arts building. Approximately 500,000 people visit the museum each year.