Brooklyn Museum facade
— — a Beaux-Arts front with a glass porch attached.
Not only on a wall.
“McKim, Mead and White drew the original 1897 building as the largest art museum in the country. Only a quarter of the plan was built, and the long limestone facade on Eastern Parkway is what stands. In 2004 a glass-and-steel pavilion by Polshek Partnership was added at the centre, replacing the old front steps. The result is two architectures sharing one address, civic and contemporary, neither apologising. — from the studio
Brooklyn Museum facade, on ceramic.
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The place, in three passes.
The Brooklyn Museum sits on Eastern Parkway at the northern edge of Prospect Park, in Prospect Heights, with the Brooklyn Botanic Garden directly south. The Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead and White and opened in 1897 as the first stage of what would have been the largest art museum in the United States; only about a quarter of the original master plan was constructed. The collection runs to roughly 1.5 million objects, with particular depth in Egyptian, African, and American art, and it is the second-largest art museum in New York City.
The facade is Indiana limestone in a classical Beaux-Arts vocabulary — a tall central block with a colonnade, pediment, and a roofline of allegorical figures carved by Daniel Chester French and others representing the arts and sciences. In 1934 Robert Moses had the grand staircase removed to street-level the main entrance. In 2004 the Polshek Partnership added a low glass-and-steel pavilion in front of the central block, framing a new public plaza without obscuring the colonnade above. The two layers read as one building in two centuries.
Open Wednesday through Sunday; closed Monday and Tuesday. The museum sits directly above the Eastern Parkway-Brooklyn Museum station on the 2 and 3 subway lines. Admission is a suggested contribution for most visitors and free for members and children under 19. The first Saturday of most months runs an evening programme with music and gallery access. The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is across Washington Avenue to the south, and Prospect Park's main loop begins at Grand Army Plaza a few blocks west.