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Research: Digital Collections




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

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.

Portrait of Stewart Culin

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

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


Object in Brooklyn Museum Collection

Brooklyn Museum Collection Online

Brooklyn Museum has amassed one of the largest and most diverse collections in the United States and the Museum is committed to making its collections accessible to the widest possible audience. We intend to continue to expand the number of works of art online and to update information currently posted.

Exposed: The Victorian Nude

Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Index

Installation views of Brooklyn Museum exhibitions are accessible on the Brooklyn Museum Exhibition Index.