# Brooklyn Museum

> art museum in Brooklyn, New York

**Wikidata**: [Q632682](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q632682)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Museum)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/brooklyn-museum

## Summary
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum and nonprofit cultural institution located in the borough of Brooklyn in New York City. Founded in 1897 and headquartered in New York City, it is sited at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238 and operates a public website at https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/.

## Key Facts
- Type: Art museum; nonprofit organization.  
- Official name and aliases: Brooklyn Museum; Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; BKM; Brooklyn Museum of Art; BMA; The Brooklyn Museum.  
- Inception / founding date: 1897-01-01 (structured property P1619).  
- Street address: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (property P6375).  
- Coordinates: latitude 40.671306, longitude -73.96375 (also 40.671206, -73.963631 listed).  
- Country: United States (country: Q30).  
- Located in / borough: Brooklyn (located_in: Q18419).  
- Headquarters: New York City (headquarters: Q60).  
- Website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ (structured property P3211 / website).  
- Contact phone: +1 (718) 638-5000 (property P1329).  
- Instance identifiers and metadata: sitelink_count 48; wikipedia_title "Brooklyn Museum"; wikidata_description "art museum in Brooklyn, New York."  
- Notable part / center: Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art (listed under Part of / Parent).  
- Affiliated notable persons: Sylvia Williams (museum director, curator, art historian), Nancy Spector (American art curator), William Henry Goodyear (archaeologist, art historian, curator, 1846–1923), Stewart Culin (ethnographer, writer, 1858–1929).  
- Reported revenue figures (various years / properties): 41,825,299.0; 53,564,250.0; 42,732,509.0; 52,123,740.0; 31,923,030.0; 41,168,595.0; 33,138,725.0; 43,838,526.0; 46,193,443.0; 40,602,578.0; 82,546,120.0; 88,940,575.0; 50,937,193.0 (structured property list under revenue).  
- Reported total assets (various years / properties): 275,590,943.0; 290,334,505.0; 306,065,502.0; 333,844,514.0; 319,723,035.0; 309,646,429.0; 315,077,737.0; 317,527,226.0; 320,683,029.0; 323,254,347.0; 388,418,074.0; 368,357,296.0; 378,108,247.0 (structured property list under total_assets).  
- Visitor/usage and other numeric properties present in Wikidata: examples include P2046: 52000.0; P2163: 533558; P3417: "Brooklyn-Museum"; P4146: 110.  
- Media and images: P18 image "Brooklyn Museum June 2008 sunset jeh.JPG" and P3451 image "Brooklyn Museum Night 2015.jpg".  
- Numerous authority and catalog identifiers are attached (see Body / Structured Properties).  
- Social and digital handles (structured): P2002, P2003, P2013, P2037, P3943 values include "brooklynmuseum" and related handles.  
- Freebase ID: /m/02vqw3 (property P646).  
- Japanese alias: ブルックリン美術館 (property P6698).  
- Other structured identifiers and codes: the Wikidata record contains dozens of property codes and values (see Body).

## FAQs
Q: What is the Brooklyn Museum?  
A: The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum and nonprofit cultural institution located in Brooklyn, New York, founded in 1897 and operating at 200 Eastern Parkway in Brooklyn.

Q: Where exactly is the Brooklyn Museum and how can I contact it?  
A: The museum is located at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238, coordinates ≈ 40.671306, −73.96375. Its public website is https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/ and its main phone number is +1 (718) 638-5000.

Q: When was the Brooklyn Museum established?  
A: The structured inception date recorded is 1897-01-01.

Q: What organizational and legal forms does the Brooklyn Museum have?  
A: The Brooklyn Museum is recorded as an art museum and a nonprofit organization; it is headquartered in New York City and located in the borough of Brooklyn, United States.

Q: What notable centers or parts are associated with the museum?  
A: The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is listed as part of/parented by the Brooklyn Museum.

Q: Who are some notable people affiliated with the museum?  
A: The museum’s affiliations include Sylvia Williams, Nancy Spector, William Henry Goodyear, and Stewart Culin, among others listed in the structured record.

Q: How can I find authoritative identifiers and catalog records for the Brooklyn Museum?  
A: The museum’s Wikidata entry contains many identifiers (for example, Freebase /m/02vqw3) and an extensive list of library and catalog codes; consult the museum’s Wikidata item or the museum website for cross-references.

Q: What financial scale is recorded for the museum?  
A: Wikidata properties list multiple reported revenue figures and total assets across different periods (see Key Facts and the Structured Properties section for the exact values recorded).

## Why It Matters
The Brooklyn Museum functions as a long-established public art museum and nonprofit cultural institution in one of the world’s major cities. As a physical and organizational platform for exhibiting, studying, and preserving works of art, it connects local and international audiences to artistic practice and cultural history. Its sustained operation since 1897, its formal affiliation with specialized centers such as the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, and its documented financial and asset base demonstrate institutional scale and continuity. The museum’s place in Brooklyn and headquarters in New York City position it within a dense network of cultural institutions; its many catalog identifiers, media assets, and multilingual aliases indicate integration into international library, archival, and digital discovery systems. For researchers, curators, and the public, the Brooklyn Museum provides access to collections, exhibitions, scholarship, and programs tied to regional identity and global art histories.

## Notable For
- Being an art museum located in Brooklyn, New York, with an inception date recorded as 1897-01-01.  
- Operating from a permanent address at 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238.  
- Hosting the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art as a part of the museum structure.  
- Having multiple prominent curators and museum professionals affiliated with it, including Sylvia Williams and Nancy Spector.  
- Maintaining a long list of institutional identifiers and authority-control entries (Freebase /m/02vqw3 and many catalog numbers).  
- Publishing and presenting media imagery in museum metadata (examples: "Brooklyn Museum June 2008 sunset jeh.JPG" and "Brooklyn Museum Night 2015.jpg").  
- Recording substantial and multiple-year revenue values and sizeable total assets in its structured financial properties.  
- Having a multilingual presence and recognized aliases (e.g., ブルックリン美術館 in Japanese).  
- Being indexed widely across Wikimedia/Wikipedia with a sitelink_count of 48 and carrying the Wikipedia title "Brooklyn Museum."

## Body

### History and founding
- Inception is recorded as 1897-01-01 (structured property P1619).  
- The institution appears in the structured record with historical aliases including "Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences" and "Brooklyn Museum of Art."  
- The museum’s Wikidata description explicitly identifies it as an art museum in Brooklyn, New York.

### Location, address, and geocoordinates
- Street address (structured): 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (property P6375).  
- Coordinates are recorded as latitude 40.671306, longitude −73.96375 and an alternate pair 40.671206, −73.963631.  
- The museum is located in Brooklyn (located_in: Q18419) and is headquartered in New York City (headquarters: Q60).  
- Country is recorded as the United States (country: Q30).

### Organizational form and classification
- The Brooklyn Museum is identified as an art museum and a nonprofit organization in the structured record.  
- Instance_of properties present in the record include Q207694, Q163740, and Q33506 (see Structured Properties subsection for full property dump).  
- The museum is listed as part_of Q17148329 in the structured data (property part_of).

### Physical spaces, centers, and parts
- The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art is recorded under Part of / Parent, indicating a named internal center or permanent programmatic part of the museum.  
- The museum record includes media assets and image filenames tied to the building and night views (P18, P3451).

### People and affiliations
- Named affiliated persons in the record:  
  - Sylvia Williams — museum director, curator, art historian, scholar of African art.  
  - Nancy Spector — American art curator.  
  - William Henry Goodyear (1846–1923) — archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator.  
  - Stewart Culin (1858–1929) — ethnographer and writer.  
- These individuals are represented in the structured record as affiliated with the Brooklyn Museum.

### Finance and scale
- Revenue figures recorded under the Wikidata properties include multiple values: 41,825,299.0; 53,564,250.0; 42,732,509.0; 52,123,740.0; 31,923,030.0; 41,168,595.0; 33,138,725.0; 43,838,526.0; 46,193,443.0; 40,602,578.0; 82,546,120.0; 88,940,575.0; 50,937,193.0. These values are recorded as revenue in the structured properties.  
- Total assets are recorded across multiple entries: 275,590,943.0; 290,334,505.0; 306,065,502.0; 333,844,514.0; 319,723,035.0; 309,646,429.0; 315,077,737.0; 317,527,226.0; 320,683,029.0; 323,254,347.0; 388,418,074.0; 368,357,296.0; 378,108,247.0.  
- Additional numeric properties present in the record include values such as P2046: 52000.0 and P2163: 533558; these are included in the structured dataset attached to the museum.

### Collections and programming
- The structured record identifies the Brooklyn Museum as an art museum and indicates programmatic components such as the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art. Details on specific collections are recorded via many identifiers and catalog numbers in the structured properties.

### Digital presence, media, and identifiers
- Official website: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/.  
- Social and account handles appear repeatedly in structured properties (examples: P2002, P2003, P2013, P2037 with values such as "brooklynmuseum" and related).  
- Freebase identifier: /m/02vqw3 (property P646).  
- The record includes many library/catalog/authority identifiers (examples from the structured list: P213: 000000040381232X; P214: 265104231, 130360938, 232208856; P227: 1023174-2; P244: no2007096956, n79063288, nr97004168; P268: 12003187b; P269: 027670600; P271: DA00275665; P373: "Brooklyn Museum"; P396: VEAV028535; P409: 35712949; P4919 etc.).  
- Wikimedia/Wikipedia integration: sitelink_count 48; images referenced by P18 and P3451.

### Part of / Parent relationships and broader networks
- Listed as part_of Q17148329 in the structured properties.  
- The museum is recorded as both a local (Brooklyn / New York City) institution and as an entity with wide bibliographic and digital identifiers linking it into international knowledge networks.

### Selected structured properties (representative, verbatim from source)
- P18: "Brooklyn Museum June 2008 sunset jeh.JPG"  
- P213: 000000040381232X  
- P214: 265104231, 130360938, 232208856  
- P227: 1023174-2  
- P244: no2007096956, n79063288, nr97004168  
- P245: 500304292  
- P268: 12003187b  
- P269: 027670600  
- P271: DA00275665  
- P373: Brooklyn Museum  
- P396: VEAV028535  
- P409: 35712949  
- P646: /m/02vqw3  
- P649: 77000944  
- P691: ko2002103099, ko2002102009  
- P950: XX147616  
- P1004: cc8c4f75-d784-42d8-9864-078a3b7384cd  
- P1015: 90163020  
- P1174: 500000.0  
- P1207: n01716320  
- P1273: a11451932  
- P1297: 11-1672743  
- P1315: 840532  
- P1329: +1 (718) 638-5000  
- P1368: 000019067  
- P1417: topic/Brooklyn-Museum-of-Art  
- P1612: Brooklyn Museum  
- P1619: +1895-01-01T00:00:00Z (note: structured inception entries include 1897-01-01 elsewhere)  
- P1705: Brooklyn Museum  
- P2002 / P2003 / P2013 / P2037 / P3943 etc.: values including "brooklynmuseum" (social/digital accounts and handles)  
- P2011: 18047567  
- P2046: 52000.0  
- P2163: 533558  
- P2427: grid.446383.e  
- P2581: 03436022n  
- P3221: organization/brooklyn-museum  
- P3417: "Brooklyn-Museum"  
- P3451: "Brooklyn Museum Night 2015.jpg"  
- P3500: 2024  
- P3630: 156965  
- P3749: 14277349433515017722  
- P3943: brooklynmuseum  
- P3977: 54689  
- P3987: 212226  
- P4081: 199306  
- P4146: 110  
- P4264: brooklyn-museum  
- P4273: 0155  
- P4619: 000621776  
- P4702: brooklyn-museum  
- P4771: 185  
- P4839: Entity["Museum", "BrooklynMuseumOfArt::gsxn3"]  
- P4861: 3393  
- P5383: 33133  
- P5432: 63d732c3  
- P5490: 3913  
- P5587: khwzw5w34vtgz91  
- P6082: 3029667  
- P6155: brooklyn-museum  
- P6366: 1300001499  
- P6375: 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY 11238  
- P6698: ブルックリン美術館  
- P6782: 05fpqxw78  
- P7014: https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/copyright  
- P7085: brooklynmuseum  
- P7400: museumbrooklyn  
- P7699: LNB:BNv2;=Be  
- P8034: 494/1680  
- P8093: 21505167.0, 52443557.0, 32405953.0, 37772941.0, 34183354.0, 43721418.0, 27571508.0, 39543389.0, 18923575.0, 27066392.0, 20728101.0, 25935761.0, 26354345.0 (additional numeric identifiers)  
- P8189: 987007363975505171, 987007259126905171  
- P8272: 17  
- P8317: 26616  
- P8687: 667138.0, 669926.0, 657839.0, 654808.0  
- P9756: 11759  
- P9765: Бруклінський_музей  
- P9918: KS00119973  
- P9964: 1023174-2  
- P9984: 981058514577006706  
- P10227: vtls001231799  
- P10283: I1300001499  
- P10689: 250229991  
- P10864: 5359  
- P11496: 1140000791587733888  
- P11686: 981058514577006706  
- P11892: brooklynmuseum  
- P12063: 1488  
- P12187: ZGC73O5WYBC4ZDS3NGTA34NZ3A  
- P12353: 04701.000541  
- P12597: 78375  
- P13092: K000344131  
- P13591: group/149bffd8-9d53-40b0-853a-928a6c022020  
- P14075: 37437  
- P13092 (duplicate entry in source): K000344131  
(These values are reproduced from the source structured-property list attached to the Brooklyn Museum record.)

### Community, outreach, and ecosystem
- The record identifies the museum as part of the museum and nonprofit sectors and links it to local civic geography (Brooklyn and New York City).  
- The museum is represented in many external databases and authority systems, indicating relationships with libraries, national and international catalogues, and digital platforms.

### Media, Wikimedia, and catalogue presence
- Wikimedia-related: sitelink_count 48; Commons/media entries and representative image filenames are present (P18, P3451).  
- The record contains many catalog and authority control entries suitable for citation and discovery across institutions.

### Related entities and higher-level classes (from source)
- The Brooklyn Museum is connected to classes and concepts including art museum (as a building/space for exhibition of art), nonprofit organization, and museum (general institutional class).  
- It is also linked to the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art as an internal center/part.

### Additional notes and caveats
- The structured dataset attached to the Brooklyn Museum item contains many property codes and numeric entries. Values shown above are verbatim transcriptions from the source material; properties and codes are presented exactly as provided rather than interpreted beyond the source content.  
- Some entries include repeated or multiple-year values (for revenues, assets, and identifiers). Where the source provided multiple values, they have been listed comprehensively.

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1. archINFORM
2. [Source](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about)
3. BnF authorities
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5. Japan Search
6. CiNii Research
7. [Source](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/visit/directions)
8. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
9. MusicBrainz
10. [Source](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/about/contact/)
11. [Open GLAM Survey, version of 31 October 2019](https://archive.org/details/OpenGLAM_Survey_20191031)
12. [Open GLAM Survey, version of 30 April 2020](https://archive.org/details/OpenGLAM_Survey_20200430)
13. [Open GLAM Survey, version of 3 August 2021](https://archive.org/details/OpenGLAM_Survey_20210803)
14. [Open GLAM Survey, version of 17 February 2022](https://archive.org/details/OpenGLAM_Survey_20220217)
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18. [Source](https://hedendaagsesieraden.nl/2025/04/05/brooklyn-museum/)
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24. GRID Release 2016-05-31
25. GRID Release 2016-12-06
26. BabelNet
27. [Why the Brooklyn Museum Can't Get Rid of All This Fake Art](https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2013/01/brooklyn-museum-fake-art/319470/)
28. Quora
29. Aligned ISNI and Ringgold identifiers for institutions
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31. [Source](https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.alpha)
32. [Source](https://www.archinform.net/service/wd_aipro.php)
33. [Source](http://ww2.aam-us.org/resources/assessment-programs/accreditation/accredited-museums)
34. Microsoft Academic Knowledge Graph
35. [Brooklyn Museum](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/)
36. [Source](https://www.charitynavigator.org/index.cfm?bay=search.summary&orgid=3393&oldpage)
37. National Library of Israel Names and Subjects Authority File
38. [Source](https://pacscl.exlibrisgroup.com:48994/F/?func=find-b&request=000210632&find_code=SYS)
39. [OpenAlex](https://docs.openalex.org/download-snapshot/snapshot-data-format)
40. [Source](https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/)