The Brooklyn Museum is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the country. Housed in a 560,000-square-foot, Beaux-Arts building, its culturally diverse permanent collections range from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and are known around the world.
Transit Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Brooklyn Museum
The New York Transit Museum is one of the city's leading cultural institutions, the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world.
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden is a 52-acre living museum where beauty, romance, and fun blossom among world-class plant collections and specialty gardens.
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum has been a pioneer in education since 1899 and was the first museum created expressly for children.
The Brooklyn Historical Society, founded in 1863, is a nationally renowned urban history center dedicated to the exploration and preservation of documents, artwork and artifacts representative of Brooklyn's diverse cultures past and present.
MoCADA/The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts
is devoted to creating innovative exhibitions which serve as a medium to address, discuss, debate and resolve contemporary social, political and economic issues that disproportionately affect the people of the African Diaspora.
5+5 Gallery
is a top DUMBO print and printmaking gallery showcasing well-known and emerging artists. Raphael Fodde is the art director.
The Gloria Kennedy Gallery specializes in paintings, collages, wall sculpture, photography, digital imagery, assemblage art, textile and multimedia created by New York artists.
Howard Schickler Fine Art
, originally specializing in 19th and 20th century photography, has recently expanded to include paintings, drawings and rare books. The majority of the gallery’s collection is focused on European avant-garde art, photography, and rare books, and 19th and 20th century astronomy and space exploration photography.
The Rotunda Gallery presents contemporary art, public events and an innovative arts education program at their gallery space in Brooklyn Heights at 33 Clinton Street.
Safe-T-Gallery
exhibits contemporary photography and works on paper, with particular interests in Topographic, Serial and Obsessive artists and Contemporary Brooklyn as an ongoing theme.
s.e.e.dgallery
displays visual works that stimulate, challenge, serenade and elevate the soul.
Smack Mellon
is an organization whose mission is to nurture and support emerging and mid-career artists by providing access to technology and studio space necessary for the realization of ambitious multidisciplinary projects. Smack Mellon also presents large-scale gallery exhibitions.
The Henry Gregg Gallery specializes in paintings, sculpture, photography and crafts by underexposed artists of any age.
Underbridge Pictures
is an art gallery in DUMBO, which focuses on architectural images of all kinds with an emphasis on traditional and historic photographic processes.
UrbanGlass
is a not-for-profit international center that promotes the use and appreciation of glass as a creative medium and makes glass accessible to an increasingly diverse audience through its programs, educational initiatives, and publications.
The mission of the Parlor Gallery is to make the ownership of fine art more accessible to all by offering it at affordable prices and by displaying it in a welcoming, home-like environment.
Goloborotko's Studio
was established in DUMBO in 1989 as a center for production and diffusion in printmaking whose principal goal is to encourage the artistic research and creation of fine art prints.
ElevenTen Gallery
is an artist-run non-profit gallery and is a project of South Of the Navy Yard Artists, a 501(c)(3) organization of visual artists based in Brooklyn. Its purpose is to provide a professional venue for multi-discipline artists to showcase their original work in visual art, music, spoken word and film.
Tillie’s of Brooklyn
is a community-oriented coffee house that offers a little bit of small town hospitality in Fort Greene. It is a place to showcase local talent, offering new shows by area artists every six weeks, Open Mic nights every other Thursday, and frequent performances by local musicians and spoken word artists.