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May 24, 2012

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Ongoing Exhibits

Brooklyn Children's Museum
145 Brooklyn Avenue
(at St. Marks Avenue)
Brooklyn, NY  11213
Tel: (718) 735-4400
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Ongoing

Hours

Tues – Sun: 10 am – 5 pm

Admission is free on every third Thursday from 4:00–7:00 pm and on the first full weekend of every month from 2:00–5:00 pm, except on holiday weekends. (Does not apply to school, camp, or other organized groups.)
The museum has several permanent exhibitions. In World Brooklyn, kids can design a carnival costume for the West Indian Day Parade, make fake pizzas in an Italian restaurant, ring up groceries at an international grocery and dance in the Chinese New Year parade.

Neighborhood Nature invites kids on a trek through the natural habitats found in the midst of the city, from wooldand fields to ocean tide pools.

Collections Central features items from the museum's collection of 30,000 objects. Children can pilot a boat down the Amazon, reconstruct a shattered bowl like an archeologist, discover patterns in objects and use touch alone to identify mystery objects.

Outside the museum's Commons Theater are photographs reflecting the architectural, cultural and geographical diversity of central Brooklyn neighborhoods, including Crown Heights. The works from photographers ages 10 to 71 include scenes from a barber shop, a block party picnic, a senior center, picturesque streets and more.

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Brooklyn Children's Museum

A menagerie of resident animals and a permanent collection of more than 20,000 natural science objects and cultural artifacts enliven exhibits and presentations at the Brooklyn Children's Museum.
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Brooklyn Children's Museum Listings

  • Totally Tots

    Ongoing Children 5 and under enter a whimsical world where they can splash in the stream, put on a play, build with blocks, create a collage and make music. This area of the museum opens one hour earlier than the rest of the museum Wednesday–Friday.

  • Wonder Why Workshop

    Ongoing The museum offers family weekend workshops that give science-based topics a humanities twist. Subjects in the past have included salsa, recycling, bamboo and eco-friendly architecture.

  • Food pHun

    Please check full listing for event date and times Put your taste buds to the (litmus) test as we explore acids and bases in our science kitchen. Ages 4 and up.

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