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Brooklyn Museum

LC control no.n 79063288
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Corporate name headingBrooklyn Museum
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Variant(s)Museum of Art (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)
See alsoPredecessor: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Museum
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Brooklyn Museum of Art
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Other standard no.Q632682
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Beginning date1889
Associated countryUnited States
LocatedBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Field of activityArt
Special noteOld catalog heading: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Museum
Found inAmerican paintings in the Brooklyn Museum, 2005: ECIP t.p. (Brooklyn Museum)
Brooklyn Museum press release, Mar. 12, 2004 (viewed online Feb. 16, 2006) (The Brooklyn Museum of Art will return to its previous name, Brooklyn Museum, effective immediately)
NBB files, Aug. 22, 2007 (1897-Feb. 1914: Central Museum of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences; Mar. 1914-Sept. 1996: Brooklyn Museum; Oct. 1996-Mar. 2004: Brooklyn Museum of Art; Apr. 2004- Brooklyn Museum; before 1914, names "Museum" and "Central Museum" are sometimes used interchangeably; never a formal adoption of "Brooklyn Museum")
Information from 678 converted Dec. 8, 2014 (Founded 1889)
Not found inBrooklyn Museum of Art, 1997: CIP t.p.; N.Y. times, Jan. 31, 1997 (Brooklyn Museum is changing its name to Brooklyn Museum of Art)
Associated languageeng