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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 ...

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 ...

Susan B. Anthony’s life and work offer a glimpse into the extraordinary events of both the abolitionist movement and the women’s suffrage movement in the late nineteenth century. Anthony was the face ...

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 ...

The fortune teller Catherine Deshayes Monvoisin, called La Voisin, was the central figure in the “Affair of the Poisons,” a lurid criminal case that implicated persons at the highest levels of French ...

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 ...

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn was an American socialist, labor organizer, and activist for the rights of women and immigrants. As a leading member of the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), Gurley ...