The Brooklyn Museum, New York City's Second-Largest Museum, in Prospect Park with 1.5 Million Artworks

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The Brooklyn Museum, situated along Prospect Park, is huge.  At 560,000 square feet it is NYC's second largest museum and their collection holds approximately 1.5 million pieces.  We spent five hours there and didn't even make it to several floors.  General admission is a suggested $16 (ie: you can actually pay what you want) and well worth it.

Of special note is the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art and Judy Chicago's monumental piece, The Dinner Party.

We also toured the now closed Killer Heels:  The art of the High-Heeled Shoe as well as the fabulous show Kehinde Wiley:  A New Republic.

Easy to get to from Manhattan via the subway, the museum is also conveniently located near the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens, Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Public Library, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum.

[Steve R.]

The Egyptian stuff is really good there as well and there's a small long term exhibit on the 5th floor from the Black Arts Movement of the '60s.  It also has a newish restaurant from Saul Bolton (he moved "Saul" there from Smith St"¦ I'm not a fan, but it's well reviewed) and is at the foot of the Washington Ave/Vanderbilt Ave restaurant rows, as well as only blocks from Park Slope.  Grand Army Plaza has a Greenmarket on Sat & the Library & Botanical Gardens are worth the effort.  Prospect Park is where I play tennis.  Bubbles in the winter, open har-tru courts in the summer.  Just sayin'.