iThe Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the United States, housed in a monumental Beaux-Arts building designed by McKim, Mead & White and opened in 1897. Its encyclopedic collection of around 500,000 objects spans a world-renowned trove of ancient Egyptian art, American and European painting, African and Asian art, and contemporary work. It is also home to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, built around Judy Chicago's landmark installation The Dinner Party.

Three chapters of longtime favorites and new standouts, bringing fresh narratives to the fore while exploring the collection's history and future evolution. Marks the Museum's bicentennial.

A six-year installation of the Rubin Museum's beloved Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room within the Arts of Asia galleries: over 100 thangkas, sculptures, and ritual objects arranged as an elaborate household shrine, with chanted prayers, butter lamps, and incense.

Debut of a 21-foot gilded Book of the Dead, one of the world's only complete copies, newly conserved over three years, shown within the refreshed Egyptian funerary gallery.

North American debut of Dutch couturier Iris van Herpen, with 140+ sculptural haute couture creations shown alongside contemporary art, design, and natural history specimens.

An immersive sound installation built around Representative John Lewis's speech on the floor of the US House during the December 1998 impeachment debate.

Michael Richards's sculpture of a pilot pierced with nails commemorates the Tuskegee Airmen, the US Air Force's first Black unit.

Japanese photographer Mika Ninagawa's first US immersive installation, a color-filled, hands-on environment in the Education Gallery.

More than 50 modern European works by Cézanne, Modigliani, Degas, Gauguin, Toulouse-Lautrec and Soutine, from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection gift.

The first exhibition to examine the Hopi kachina doll tradition from the perspective of the women and girls who receive them, presented at the Center for Feminist Art.

Twenty-one works from the collection trace 900 years of Japanese narrative imagery behind modern manga; a companion to Art of Manga.

East Coast debut of the first major Americas exhibition on manga as an art form, with more than 600 original drawings including Inuyasha, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure and ONE PIECE.
One of America's foremost collections of Asian art, displayed in newly renovated galleries.
Artistic traditions from Islamic cultures across Asia and Africa, parts of Europe, and diasporic communities.
Palace reliefs from the ancient Middle Eastern kingdom of Assyria, designed to overwhelm visitors with the king's power.
From ornate parlors to copper cufflinks, 1850s Gothic Revival to contemporary design, spanning Burkina Faso to Turin to Saratoga Springs.
A dense display of objects offering an inside look at how museums work and a glimpse of the American collections.
Giovanni della Robbia's Renaissance glazed terracotta masterpiece The Resurrection of Christ.
The museum's world-renowned ancient Egyptian collection: over 1,200 objects across seven galleries tracing Egyptian art from circa 3500 B.C.E. to the Roman era.
More than 170 objects exploring ancient Egyptian mummification, including the mummy of the priest Thothirdes and a nearly 25-foot Book of the Dead scroll.
An installation in the Egyptian galleries presenting ancient Egypt and Nubia as African civilizations, challenging racist and colonial assumptions of early Western archaeologists.
A glimpse of Tutankhamun's family and the art that decorated the city of Amarna during the king's childhood.
Works on view for free in the Museum's public spaces, before the Admissions Desk.
A transformative reinstallation of the American Art galleries, reorienting how the Museum exhibits this acclaimed collection.
A mysterious scene assembled from glass beads, interrogating notions of power, myth, and gender in the United States.
One of the largest and finest collections of ancient Egyptian art in the United States, renowned worldwide.
A group of American period rooms dating between the 17th and 20th centuries.

Judy Chicago's landmark 1979 feminist installation: a triangular banquet table with 39 place settings honoring women from history, the centerpiece of the Sackler Center.
200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238, United States
Nearest station: Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum (2, 3), Franklin Avenue (S, 4, 5) and Botanic Garden (S, B, Q)
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