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The Center for Brooklyn History (CBH, formerly known as the Brooklyn Historical Society) is a museum, library, and educational center founded in 1863 that preserves and encourages the study of Brooklyn's 400-year history.
In 2020, Brooklyn Public Library made an agreement to merge its archives and special collections division, the Brooklyn Collection, with the Brooklyn Historical Society. [9] The new entity is called the Center for Brooklyn History.
The Central Library, originally the Ingersoll Memorial Library, is the main branch of the Brooklyn Public Library in Brooklyn, New York City.Located on Grand Army Plaza, at the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Eastern Parkway, it contains over 1.7 million materials in its collection and has a million annual visitors.
The Macon Library was the 11th Carnegie Brooklyn library. Mapleton Library 1702 60th Street Founded in the 1930s, the Mapleton branch moved to its present building in 1955. [44] Marcy Library 617 DeKalb Avenue Formally known as the Tompkins Park Free Library, this branch opened in the center of Tompkins Park on June 6, 1899. [6] McKinley Park ...
The Brooklyn Apprentices' Library, also known as the Brooklyn Apprentices' Library Association, was the first circulating and free library established in the city of Brooklyn, New York. Founded in 1823, it was patterned after the Apprentices' Library of Philadelphia. [1] The library moved from its original location in Brooklyn Heights to the ...
Ground Zero Museum Workshop, history of the September 11 attacks and the workers at the World Trade Center site. Status unknown after 2014; Guggenheim Soho, Manhattan [7] Kurdish Library and Museum, Brooklyn, collections now owned by Binghamton University; Met Breuer, building turned over to the Frick for temporary use.
The Lesbian Herstory Archives, the home of an LGBTQ history trove in Brooklyn, New York, is celebrating its 50th anniversary. A lesbian archive inside a Brooklyn brownstone has documented decades ...
The Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives holds approximately 300,000 volumes [1] and over 3,000 linear feet of archives related to the history of the museum and its collections. The library collections comprise books, periodicals, auction catalogs, artist and institutional files as well as special collections containing photographs, sketches ...