Brooklyn Museum
Overview
New York's third largest museum, in an 1897 McKim Mead and White beaux-arts pile. The Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Judy Chicago's Dinner Party, an outstanding Egyptian collection, and the murals of the Women of Water Street. First to collect African art as art.
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