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Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the borough of . At 560,000 square feet, the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects.
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  • Opening hours: Wednesday—Sunday 11:00 AM—6:00 PM
  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Brooklyn, New York
  • Also known as: “BKM”, “BMA”, “Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences”, “Brooklyn Museum of Art”, “Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences”, and “The Brooklyn Museum”
  • Address: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, 11238
  • Wheelchair access: yes

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Prospect Park and Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

Photo: McKay Savage, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is in . It includes its namesake park, plus the neighborhoods of Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Windsor Terrace, and South.

Garden
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is a botanical garden in the borough of in . The botanical garden occupies 52 acres in central Brooklyn, close to , , and the Brooklyn Museum.

Railway stop
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The is a local station on the IRT Eastern Parkway Line of the New York City Subway. Located at the intersection of Washington Avenue and Eastern Parkway in adjacent to the Brooklyn Museum, it is served by the 2 train at all times, the 3 train at all times except late nights, and the 4 train during late nights.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Prospect Heights and Park Slope.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the northwest of the borough of . The traditional boundaries are Flatbush Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Eastern Parkway – beginning at – to the south, and Washington Avenue to the east.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in South , , within the area once known as . is roughly bounded by and Prospect Park West to the east, Fourth Avenue to the west, Flatbush Avenue to the north, and Prospect Expressway to the south.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood in the central portion of the borough of . is bounded by Washington Avenue to the west, Atlantic Avenue to the north, Ralph Avenue to the east, and Empire Boulevard to the south.

Brooklyn Museum

Latitude
40.67097° or 40° 40′ 16″ north
Longitude
-73.9637° or 73° 57′ 49″ west
Elevation
151 feet (46 metres)
Height
164 feet (50 metres)
Open location code
87G8M2CP+9G
Open­Street­Map ID
way 1432069915
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­museum
Open­Street­Map feature
tourism=­museum
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­yes
Geo­Names ID
6343439
Wiki­data ID
Q632682
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Yue Chinese—“Brooklyn Museum” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف بروكلين”
  • Armenian: “Բրուքլինի թանգարան”
  • Balinese: “Museum Brooklyn”
  • Basque: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Belarusian: “Бруклінскі музей”
  • Belarusian: “Бруклінскі музэй”
  • Catalan: “Museu de Brooklyn”
  • Chinese: “布魯克林博物館”
  • Chinese: “布鲁克林博物馆”
  • Czech: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Czech: “Brooklynské muzeum”
  • Danish: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Dutch: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف بروكلين”
  • Esperanto: “Broklina Muzeo”
  • Finnish: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • French: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • French: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • French: “Musée de Brooklyn”
  • Galician: “Museo de Brooklyn”
  • Georgian: “ბრუკლინის მუზეუმი”
  • German: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • German: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • German: “The Brooklyn Museum”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο του Μπρούκλιν”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון ברוקלין לאומנות”
  • Hebrew: “מוזיאון ברוקלין”
  • Hungarian: “Brooklyn Múzeum”
  • Igbo: “BKM”
  • Igbo: “BMA”
  • Igbo: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • Igbo: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Igbo: “Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences”
  • Igbo: “The Brooklyn Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Brooklyn”
  • Irish: “Músaem Brooklyn”
  • Italian: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • Italian: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Japanese: “ブルックリン美術館”
  • Kazakh: “Бруклин мұражайы”
  • Korean: “브루클린 미술관”
  • Korean: “브루클린 박물관”
  • Latvian: “Bruklinas muzejs”
  • Macedonian: “Бруклински музеј”
  • Malay: “Muzium Brooklyn”
  • Malayalam: “ബ്രൂക്ക്ലിൻ മ്യൂസിയം”
  • Mongolian: “Бруклины музей”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Norwegian: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Musèu de Brooklin”
  • Persian: “موزه بروکلین”
  • Persian: “موزهٔ بروکلین”
  • Polish: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • Portuguese: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Portuguese: “Museu do Brooklyn”
  • Russian: “Бруклинский музей”
  • Serbian: “Бруклински музеј”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Brooklynski muzej umjetnosti”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Bruklinski muzej”
  • Slovenian: “BKM”
  • Slovenian: “BMA”
  • Slovenian: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • Slovenian: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Slovenian: “Brooklynski muzej”
  • Slovenian: “Brooklyski muzej umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Brooklyn Museum of Art”
  • Spanish: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Spanish: “Museo Brooklyn”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Brooklyn”
  • Swedish: “Brooklyn Museum”
  • Tamil: “புரூக்ளின் அருங்காட்சியகம்”
  • Turkish: “Brooklyn Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бруклінський музей”
  • Urdu: “بروکلین عجائب گھر”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Brooklyn”
  • Yue Chinese: “布魯克林博物館”
  • “Brooklyn Museum”

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