As a Brooklyn Museum intern, you’ll join a dynamic group of emerging arts professionals to reenvision the future of museums while gaining workplace skills through hands-on, real-world projects. We’ll ...

Get ready for an exciting evening of high-energy art-making! Join us at First Saturdays for these half-hour sessions led by our experienced teaching artists. Each month brings a new activity to ...

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For 200 years, the Brooklyn Museum has been recognized as a trailblazer. Through a vast array of exhibitions, public programs, and community-centered initiatives, it continues to broaden the ...

Emily Dickinson is considered one of the most famous poets in the history of American literature. Though socially shy, she was outspoken and emotional in her lyric poetry (short poems with one speaker ...

What we know about prehistoric goddess traditions comes to us from archaeological record and remnants of oral traditions, such as the “Old Woman” of the Aboriginals in Australia. The original ...

In 1903, Sir Arthur Evans, excavating at the palace of Knossos on the island of Crete, discovered fragments of faience statuettes depicting female figures holding snakes. Two of these statuettes were ...

Artemisia Gentileschi was an early Italian Baroque painter, and the only female follower of Caravaggio, whom she worked with in Italy in the early 17th century. Her innovative compositions and focus ...

In 1488, Anne succeeded her father as ruler of the independent duchy of Brittany, which had maintained a precarious autonomy against repeated incursions by the French and English. Now its future ...

From our beginnings as Brooklyn’s first public circulating library to the global cultural hub we are today, the Brooklyn Museum’s story has always been one of evolution and transformation. Nurtured by ...

According to early sources, Angèle de la Barthe, a noblewoman of Toulouse, France, was an adherent of Catharism, a Gnostic Christian sect deemed heretical by the Catholic Church. She was accused of ...

Unknown artist. Alice Stone Blackwell, between 1905 and 1917. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C.