Brooklyn Museum

art museum in Brooklyn, New York
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Brooklyn Museum
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Summary

Brooklyn Museum is an art museum[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of art museum entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (2,038 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Brooklyn[3]
  • Country: United States[4]
  • Instance of: nonprofit organization[5], museum[6]
  • Architect: McKim, Mead & White[7]
  • Architectural style: Beaux-Arts[8]
  • Headquarters location: New York City[9]
  • Part of: New York Art Resources Consortium[10]
  • Commons category: Brooklyn Museum[11]
  • Inception: January 1, 1897[12]
  • Coordinate location: 40.671306, -73.96375[13], 40.671206, -73.963631[14]
  • Official website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/[15]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Brooklyn Museum[16]
  • Visitors per year: 500,000[17]
  • Phone number: +1 (718) 638-5000[18]
  • Described by source: Open GLAM Survey[19], hedendaagsesieraden.nl[20]
  • Heritage designation: National Register of Historic Places listed place[21], New York City Landmark[22]
  • Legal form: 501(c)(3) organization[23]
  • Commons Institution page: Brooklyn Museum[24]
  • Date of official opening: January 1, 1895[25]
  • Main Wikidata property: P4740[26], P4899[27]
  • Native label: Brooklyn Museum[28]
  • Owner of: Mrs. Robert Abbe (Catherine Amory Bennett)[29]
  • Area: 52,000[30]
  • Total revenue: 41,825,299[31], 53,564,250[32], 42,732,509[33], 52,123,740[34], 31,923,030[35], 41,168,595[36], 33,138,725[37], 43,838,526[38], 46,193,443[39], 40,602,578[40], 82,546,120[41], 88,940,575[42], 50,937,193[43]
  • Total assets: 275,590,943[44], 290,334,505[45], 306,065,502[46], 333,844,514[47], 319,723,035[48]

Why It Matters

Brooklyn Museum has Wikipedia articles in 25 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[49] It is known by 36 alternative names across languages and contexts.[50]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [49] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [50] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 6w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-09-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → brooklyn-museum, brooklyn-museum-of-art
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Harper's tag: brooklyn-museum, Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/289920410|brooklyn museum (#289920410)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog/7915|Harper'"
  2. 12w ago · Pierrotrgr · 2026-07-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Biblissima authority id → Pulsnitz
    Svkkl authority id → 0379966-Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art, 0379965-Brooklyn-Museum
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Biblissima authority id: Q81743, Import ID Biblissima V3 ([[:toollabs:editgroups/b/OR/a6710164cdc|details]])"
  3. 18w ago · MariuszRokin · 2026-06-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Svkkl authority id → 0379966-Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art, 0379965-Brooklyn-Museum
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    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Svkkl authority id: 0379966-Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/259576|batch #259576]]"
  4. 23w ago · Lmerice · 2026-05-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabakalera id → 53265
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