Brooklyn Children’s Museum

museum, New York City, New York, United States
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1899 - present

Brooklyn Children’s Museum, educational institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., established in 1899 as the world’s first children’s museum. The museum was originally a part of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1823. In 1977 the Children’s Museum opened in a building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, after nearly seven decades of operation in two Victorian mansions. The museum’s more than 30,000 cultural artifacts and natural history specimens combine with a system of permanent exhibits to advance its educational purposes. It is strong in cultural history, the arts, natural history, and environmental science. From 2003 to 2008 the museum underwent ...(100 of 128 words)