Check back in late summer for a NEW museum adventure for ages 4–6! Calendar View a listing by month of programs for families of all ages. Birthday Parties Celebrate at the Brooklyn Museum! Available ...

I do not think of myself as a benefactor. I am a public historian, social and arts activist, and American Indian advocate and as such have found myself being conscious of the world around me and ...

Gertrude Käsebier advanced the cause of fine art photography in America through her successful practice as a portraitist. Around 1898, after studying painting at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, she ...

Saint Agnes of Bohemia was born the daughter of King Otakar I (ruled 1198–1230). She was engaged at a young age to the son of Holy Roman emperor Frederick II, but she broke it off and returned to ...

The correct spelling of this name is CORINNA OF TANAGRA. Corinna was a poet from the Boeotian city of Tanagra, who lived probably in the sixth century B.C.E. and was said to have taught the famous ...

Helen Diner is the American pseudonym for German-born Bertha Eckstein-Diener. Diner was a member of the “Arthurians,” a group of European intellectuals active in the 1930s, who each adopted a name ...

The Brooklyn Museum stands on land that is part of the unceded, ancestral homeland of the Lenape (Delaware) people.

The correct spelling of this name is CATHARINE BEECHER.

American-born sculptor Harriet Hosmer lived and worked in Rome from 1852 until 1900. There, she thrived in a community of expatriate artists and writers, mostly women, who frequented the salon of ...

The household in which Anne Cooke Bacon grew up was hailed by the Elizabethan intellectual Walter Haddon as a “small university.” Each of Anthony Cooke’s five daughters received a thorough humanist ...

Christabel Pankhurst was the eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr. Richard Pankhurst. In 1903, Christabel, her mother, and her sister Sylvia founded the Women’s Social and Political Union ...

Margaret O’Connor is another name for Máirgréag Ní Chearbhaill. Máirgréag Ní Chearbhaill (Margaret O’Carroll) was an Irish noblewoman and patron of literature and the arts. She was married to one of ...