Museums

Last Update: 1/25/04

Local Museums
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LOCAL MUSEUMS

Brooklyn Expedition

Explore the Brooklyn Children's Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Public Library all in one fantastic website!
www.brooklynexpedition.org


Boerum Hill


Micro Museum
123 Smith Street (between Dean and Pacific Streets)
Brooklyn, NY 11201
(718) 797-3116
www.micromuseum.com

Open for special events and by appointment. The only inter-disciplinary media center in Downtown Brooklyn. Attracting and supporting artists that fit into all categories, The Micro Museum embraces hybrid art and the synergy between performing and visual arts. Their monthly exhibition series, Odd Sundays is an environment that tends to blur the line between art forms as well as audience and performer. The Micro Museum acts as a creative laboratory for 100's of performing artists. It houses several media collections such as public TV's Spontaneous Combustion series and archives of the Laziza Electrique Dance Company.

Brooklyn Heights/ Boerum Hill

New York Transit Museum (Reopened 9/16/03)
Corner of Boerum Place & Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11217
(718) 243-3060
www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mta/museum/
Bigger; better and more interactive.

Brooklyn Historical Association
128 Pierrepont Street
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11201
Phone 718 - 222 4111
info: www.brooklynhistory.org

Crown Heights  

Brooklyn Children's Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y.
(718) 735-4400
www.brooklynkids.org

Park Slope

The Brooklyn Museum Of Art
900 Washington Ave (at Eastern Parkway)
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215
(718) 264-3474
www.brooklynart.org

Red Hook

Brooklyn Trolley Museum
499 Van Brunt St
Brooklyn, N.Y.Z
(718) 941-5160
www.brooklynrail.com

Brooklyn Waterfront Museum and Showboat Barge
Conover Street (harbor's edge)
Brooklyn, N.Y.
(718) 624-4719
www.waterfrontmuseum.org 

Arts programs and "hands-on" waterfront heritage
experiences. Accessible by shuttle bus, car or the B-61 Bus


HISTORIC CENTERS


Park Slope

Old Stone House Historic Center
3rd Street & 4th Avenue
Brooklyn, N.Y. 11215
(718) 768-3195
www.oldstonehouse.org

The Old Stone House, also known as the Vechte-Cortelyou House, is a replica of a Dutch stone farmhouse with a very rich history. The original house was built by Claes Arentson Vechte, a Dutch immigrant, beside the Gowanus Creek in 1699. Its two-foot thick wall of fieldstone and brick and its heavily shuttered windows protected the family. The Vechtes prospered, farming the rich bottomland beneath the Heights of Guam (the hills of Park Slope), harvesting oysters in the Gowanus Creek (now the Gowanus Canal), and ferrying -produce to market in Manhattan. At that time, this area was in the village of Gowanus within the old Town of Breukelen.

Prospect Park

Lefferts Homestead Children's Museum
Flatbush Ave near Empire Boulevard, between the Zoo and the Carousel
(718) 789-2822
www.prospectpark.org/dest/main.cfm?target=leff

East Flatbush

Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House Museum
5816 Clarendon Road, at Ralph Avenue
Brooklyn, NY
(718) 629-5400.
www.wyckoffassociation.org/museum/index.html

The museum is open to school groups by appointment. Demonstrations of colonial crafts are held monthly. The public is also welcome to enjoy the park surrounding the house. Please call for appointments or hours of operation

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