Our first outing to the Brooklyn Museum! It's the second largest art museum in the five boroughs (the Met being #1). It's right next to the Botanic Garden, which we will be seeing more of once spring arrives! This museum is filled with many exhibits from Egyptian to Asian art, feminist to modern, but my favorite part was the 4th floor.
When you enter this floor, you are greeted by a beautiful Tiffany stained glass window. And you continue on to the period rooms. These rooms are life sized replicas (and some actual) representing different eras of East Coast housing. It's like walking through a huge dollhouse with really old furniture. :) Among the rooms, there is an 1864 Rockefeller brownstone, an 1806 South Carolina plantation house, and my favorite, the Schenck house - an actual farmhouse
built in Canarsie/Flatlands, Brooklyn in 1775. The house was dismantled and installed in the Museum in the 1960's and moved to it's permanent spot on the 4th floor in 2007. We had a fun day at the museum!
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Wow! This barn is really amazing to thin of it being there back in the day :) It's great that you are enjoying all of those amazing museums while you are there!
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