Collections

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Torso from a Standing Statuette of a King

    The idealized modeling of this torso harks back to royal sculpture of Dynasty IV (circa 2600–2475 B....

     

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    Browse through more than 2,000 objects from the Brooklyn Museum's collections of American art.

    Brooklyn Bridge

    The Brooklyn Bridge and the Brooklyn Museum: Spanning Art and History

    Images of the Brooklyn Bridge, along with essays originally published in the catalogue The Great East River Bridge, 1883–1983.

    Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

    Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

    View one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    Culin Archival Collection

    Culin Archival Collection

    Stewart Culin (1858–1929) was the Brooklyn Museum's first curator of ethnology. The Guide to the Culin Archival Collection, which includes a chronology of Culin's life and a detailed description of the collection, is now online.

    African Art Exhibition of 1923

    African Art Exhibition of 1923

    Digital copies of documents and photographs relating to a seminal exhibition of African art curated by Culin in 1923, are now online.

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