Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum is a museum in New York, at a recorded elevation of 46 m. High Mountain stands 268 m to the north-northwest, 24 miles off. The nearest named place is OY/YO, a artwork less than a tenth of a mile away. Bronx River Parkway passes 12 miles off. 51 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Brooklyn Museum is an art museum in the New York City borough of Brooklyn. At 560,000 square feet (52,000 m2), the museum is New York City's second largest and contains an art collection with around 500,000 objects. Located near the Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Flatbush, and Park Slope neighborhoods of Brooklyn, the museum's Beaux-Arts building was designed by McKim, Mead & White. The Brooklyn Museum was founded in 1823 as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library and merged with the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences in 1843. The museum was conceived as an institution focused on a broad public. The Brooklyn Museum's current building dates to 1897 and has been expanded several times since then. The museum initially struggled to maintain its building and collection, but it was revitalized in the late 20th century following major renovations. Significant areas of the collection include antiquities, specifically their collection of Egyptian antiquities spanning over 3,000 years. European, African, Oceanic, and Japanese art make for notable antiquities collections as well. American art is heavily represented, starting at the Colonial period. Artists represented in the collection include Mark Rothko, Edward Hopper, Norman Rockwell, Judy Chicago, Winslow Homer, Edgar Degas, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Max Weber.
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Dates from 1897.
Wikidata Q632682, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 50.0 m
- Elevation
- 46 m
What to expect
- Fee
- donation
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 11.6 mi off the Bronx River Parkway
- 12.6 mi off the Palisades Scenic Byway, National
- 29.4 mi off the Merritt Parkway, National
Named places within 25 miles
- OY/YO: 0.0 mi
- Monuments to Motherhood: 0.3 mi
- Panther: 0.6 mi
- Panther: 0.6 mi
- Dragon Fountain: 0.9 mi
- Osborne Garden: 0.1 mi
- Brooklyn Botanic Garden: 0.1 mi
- Ginkgo Allée: 0.1 mi
- Lilac Collection: 0.1 mi
- Woodland Garden: 0.1 mi
- Dr. Ronald Erwin McNair: 0.1 mi
- Joseph A. Guider Monument: 0.1 mi
- Alfred T. White Memorial: 0.2 mi
- James Stranahan: 0.3 mi
- General Henry Warner Slocum: 0.3 mi
- Dr. Ronald McNair Park: 0.1 mi
- Mount Prospect Park: 0.2 mi
- Elijah Stroud Playground: 0.3 mi
- Jackie Robinson Playground: 0.4 mi
- Gaynor Plaza: 0.5 mi
- Hall of Animals: 0.4 mi
- Sea Lion Pool: 0.4 mi
- Sea Lion Store & Cafe: 0.4 mi
- Animal Lifestyles: 0.4 mi
- Hamadryas Baboon: 0.4 mi
- Lefferts Historic House: 0.5 mi
- Brooklyn Children's Museum: 1.1 mi
- Lesbian Herstory Archives: 1.1 mi
- Old Stone House: 1.1 mi
- Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts: 1.1 mi
- Pier 4 Beach: 2.6 mi
- Pebble Beach: 2.7 mi
- Beach/Kayak launch ramp: 2.9 mi
- Canarsie Beach: 5.0 mi
- Gansevoort Peninsula Sand Bluff: 5.3 mi
- Bird Island: 2.6 mi
- WNYC Transmitter Park: 4.1 mi
- Four Sparrow Marsh: 5.7 mi
- Rookery: 5.8 mi
- Turtle Reintroduction Site: 5.9 mi
- Sullivan Hill: 0.5 mi
- Willink Hill: 0.7 mi
- Quaker Hill: 0.8 mi
- Breeze Hill: 0.8 mi
- Lookout Hill: 1.0 mi
- Pier 5 Uplands Seating Area: 2.5 mi
- Picnic Peninsula: 2.5 mi
- Pier 3 Greenway Terrace: 2.6 mi
- Freedom Field: 5.3 mi
- Street Seats: 5.5 mi
- Palisades: 6.5 mi
- Palisades: 7.4 mi
- Palisades: 9.6 mi
- Coogan's Bluff: 11.2 mi
- Palisades: 15.3 mi
- Ambergill Falls: 0.6 mi
- Binnen Falls: 0.7 mi
- Fallkill Falls: 0.8 mi
- The Loch: 8.5 mi
- The Falls: 16.3 mi
- LeFrak Point Lighthouse: 5.2 mi
- Sandy Hook Lighthouse: 14.6 mi
- Lighthouse Keeper's Quarters: 14.6 mi
- Sands Point Lighthouse: 18.2 mi
- Execution Rocks Light: 18.6 mi
- Vince Lombardi Service Area: 11.1 mi
- Larry Doby Service Area: 16.2 mi
- Grover Cleveland Service Area: 17.6 mi
- Thomas Edison Service Area: 17.6 mi
- Barber: 18.2 mi
- Feltville Historic District: 22.2 mi
- Tulip Springs: 18.1 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Brooklyn Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| High Mountain | NNW 329° | 268 m | 24.0 mi |
| Mount Cecchino | NNW 329° | 230 m | 23.8 mi |
| Stony Hill | WNW 304° | 179 m | 17.6 mi |
| Mayapple Hill | WNW 293° | 175 m | 18.4 mi |
| Packanack Mountain | NW 321° | 144 m | 23.1 mi |
| Riker Hill | WNW 297° | 134 m | 21.3 mi |
| Long Hill | W 275° | 126 m | 24.9 mi |
| Todt Hill | WSW 238° | 125 m | 9.3 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:00 | 18:32 | 19:08 |
| June solstice | 05:26 | 19:50 | 20:31 |
| September equinox | 06:44 | 18:19 | 18:55 |
| December solstice | 07:17 | 15:49 | 16:32 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 34 | 36 | 43 | 53 | 62 | 72 | 78 | 76 | 70 | 58 | 48 | 39 |
| Precip in | 3.5 | 3.0 | 4.4 | 3.8 | 4.0 | 4.4 | 4.8 | 3.9 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 3.2 | 4.0 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — NY AVE V Brooklyn, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Brooklyn/Bedford-Stuyvesant and Flatbush · 1 mi
- Brooklyn/Downtown · 2 mi
- Brooklyn/Williamsburg · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Chinatown · 3 mi
- Manhattan/Lower East Side · 3 mi
- Queens · 3 mi
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