About
We bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to ACT. Form 990, part III, line 1 (description of organization's mission continued) our vision is to be the place where art is a powerful force for personal transformation and social change. With roots extending from 1825, the museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the united states. Its encyclopedic collection represents more than 5,500 years of artistic creativity, housed in a grand 560,000 square-foot beaux arts building designed by mckim, MEAD & white. Generally considered to be among the highest quality are the ancient egyptian collection; the arts of the americas collection, which includes PRE-columbian objects, spanish colonial painting, as well as 19th and early 20th century american painting, sculpture and decorative arts; and the asian and middle eastern collections. The museum is also home to the elizabeth a. Sackler center for feminist art, the only center of its kind in a museum. A distinguished record of groundbreaking exhibitions, canon-expanding scholarship, and RICH education and public programs, which DRAW an audience of half a million each year, further enhance our world-renowned holdings. The museum is grounded in the early egalitarian ideals of our nation; from the very beginning, our essential purpose has been the "education and inspiration of ALL the people." always an innovator, the brooklyn museum has launched many firsts, including the groundbreaking retrospective of georgia o'keeffe in 1927. The museum was also the first art museum in the u.s. To launch a formal education department, in-house conservation, and a photography school; build a large-scale collection of korean art; and mount a major survey of african art. Nearly 200 years AGO the museum began by preparing brooklyn's unemployed and uneducated BOYS and men for the workforce, before the advent of free public education in new YORK city, offering instruction in grammar; writing; bookkeeping; and architectural, figural, mechanical and landscape drawing. And today more than one-third of our annual visitorship benefits from the museum's education programs, which provide vital opportunities to DRAW personal connections to world-class collections and exhibitions; strengthen lifelong learning and critical thinking; and foster inclusion.
In care of Mckenzie Keating
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