Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum ( 1997-2004 Brooklyn Museum of Art ) is the second largest museum in New York City and one of the largest and oldest museums in North America. The library contains a large collection of ancient Egyptian masterpieces and the works of many cultures from around the world, especially the Chinese, Korean and Middle Eastern art. Modern art is represented with exemplary works of the 19th and 20th centuries. The museum complex is part of a park and garden area from the 19th century, which includes, among others, of Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden and Prospect Park Zoo. The museum can be reached in 30 minutes from Midtown Manhattan and has its own metro station.

History

The huge building was designed by New York architects McKim, Mead, and White in neo-classical style in 1885, it was opened in 1887. With its generous dome and its spacious galleries, halls and porticos it was planned as the largest museum in the world, but was completed only about a fifth of the originally planned building to this day. From the American sculptor Daniel Chester French in 1916 resulting allegorical figures derived Brooklyn ( on the right ) and Manhattan ( on the left side of the portico ). The original holdings of the Brooklyn Museum included paintings and scientific and ethnological collections. 1916 was a donation of the Egyptologist Charles E. Wilbour an Egyptian collection added. She is now one of the world's most extensive and valuable collections of this kind in 1988 the painting was presented to The Origin of the World (L' Origine du monde ) by Gustave Courbet ( 1819-1877 ) here worldwide for the first time publicly. At the exhibition "Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection " came in 1999 to a scandal. Mayor Rudolph Giuliani described the work as " pathological" and demanded its removal and stroked the museum grants totaling $ 7.2 million, but could not prevail. A court took a cancellation of funds with the reference to the freedom he art back. 2003/2004, the museum was rebuilt by the architect James Polshek for over 60 million dollars and received a modern glass pavilion set before the entrance. On the forecourt of the California design studio Wet has installed a sensational fountain with a " water ballet ".

The Collection

The ground floor houses the collections of primitive art Native American and African peoples as well as more space for temporary exhibitions. The first floor is reserved for the exhibition of Asian art like Indian miniatures and Islamic calligraphy, also there is shown both the Chinese and Japanese art in permanent and temporary exhibitions. On the 2nd floor of the museum there are the above-mentioned collection of Egyptian art and the collections of Coptic, Greek, Roman and Middle Eastern art. Attraction on the 3rd floor are 25 fully equipped American rooms from the time from 1715 to 1880 as well as objects of daily life from that time. Furthermore, here are collections of European and American costumes. On the 4th floor there is an extensive collection of American paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries with works under other by Georgia O'Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Jim Dine, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Richard Diebenkorn and Alex Katz and photographs Edward Weston and Edward Steichen. European art is represented with examples of work by Auguste Rodin, Henri Matisse, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Camille Pissarro and others.

In changing exhibitions works of Jean -Michel Basquiat, Sigmar Polke, Ron Mueck and 2006, a retrospective of photographer William Wegman were seen.

Pictures of Brooklyn Museum

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