Brooklyn Museum
New York City's second-largest museum sits on the Brooklyn side, half a million objects behind a McKim, Mead & White facade.
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Around 500,000 objects across Egyptian, European, African, Oceanic, Japanese and American art. The Egyptian holdings alone span over 3,000 years, and the American collection reaches back to the Colonial period.
What to look for
- Egyptian antiquities covering more than 3,000 years
- Works by Rothko, Hopper, O'Keeffe, Degas and Winslow Homer
- The Beaux-Arts building's first-floor hall of sculpture, which serves as the main lobby
Find it on Eastern Parkway, just east of Prospect Park.
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More to see in New York
- Statue of LibertyFrance's gift to the U.S.: a crowned, robed woman raising a torch over New York Harbor, long read as a welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.
- Empire State BuildingRide up to the 86th- or 102nd-floor deck and look straight down on Midtown Manhattan.
- World Trade Center & 9/11 MemorialTwo reflecting pools now sit in the exact footprints where the Twin Towers stood until September 11, 2001.
- Wall StreetUnder 2,000 feet of pavement that stands in for all of American finance — named for a wall that hasn't existed since 1699.
- The Met (Metropolitan Museum of Art)1.5 million works under one roof, from Sumerian stone to modern American rooms — a day here barely scratches it.
- Central ParkThe most visited urban park in the US — an estimated 42 million visits a year — built by hand on the razed land of a Black settlement, Seneca Village.