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The Libraries and Archives are open to the public Wednesday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Additionally, we are open the first Saturday of every month from 1 to 4 p.m. with the exception of July through September. Visitors are encouraged to search the Library Online Catalogue and to e-mail citations for materials needed. Please contact us if you would like more information about these collections, or to reserve time for extensive research. The Libraries can be reached via e-mail at library@brooklynmuseum.org or phone (718) 501-6307.

Recent Blog Posts

Project CHART at the Brooklyn Museum
The Institute of Museum and Library Services has been an important supporter of several initiatives to make the Brooklyn Museum’s collection... read more.

Help us pin Brooklyn to the map!
If you know and love Brooklyn we need your help to get 300+ images from our collection pinned to Historypin's map before their launch on July 11... read more.

Skylar Fein and Abraham Lincoln: a look into Brooklyn’s collections
With the 150th anniversary of the American Civil War it is a good moment to look back through time and how Americans have been depicted over... read more.

History Continues with the Cold War, Vietnam, and Early Apple Computer Kiosks
This is the final post in a tour through the Museum's historical exhibition press releases, taking us up to the 1980s. If you've enjoyed this peek... read more.

Press Releases from World War II and beyond
The previous post on the Museum's recently completed digitizing of historical exhibition press releases highlighted some excerpts from the 1920s... read more.

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Recent Comments

"Maybe it would be helpful to tag this image properly as columns of Sakkara step pyramid enclosure and do not have it in Abu Simbel collection. It could be misleading."
By zuzana Grunova

"Hello Chris, Thanks for the wealth of information you've added to this image! Have you visited our #mapbk project on FLickr. We'd love it if you geotagged some of those images. Here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/brooklyn_museum/sets/72157626844588977/. Deb Wythe Digital Lab"
By Deborah Wythe

"This photo depicts the north side of Remsen Street looking west from Court Street. The building in the right foreground is the Garfield Building (1881, J. C. Cady). In the left foreground is the corner of the Dime Savings Bank (1883-84, Mercein Thomas). The Franklin Trust Company Building (1891, George L. Morse) can be seen in the distance above the row houses. The photo probably dates between 1891 (when the Franklin Trust Company Building was completed) and 1897 (when the Title Guarantee and Trust Company Building was erected immediately to the west of the Garfield Building)."
By Chris Brazee