Brooklyn Historical Society – Virtual Tour

The Brooklyn Historical Society is a museum, library, and educational center preserving and supporting the study of Brooklyn’s history. The Society, which was founded in 1863, houses materials relating to the history of Brooklyn and its people.

The Society’s Romanesque Revival building, located in Brooklyn Heights, was designed and built in 1878-81, it is part of New York City’s Brooklyn Heights Historic District. 

The Society’s education programs include primary source documents, including works of art, maps, photographs, and other artifacts.

The Library has a collection that includes family histories in the genealogy collection, a collection of Brooklyn and Long Island newspapers from the 19th and early 20th centuries, and many other institutional papers.

“New York Rifles” recruitment poster, 1860s – Brooklyn Historical Society

Highlights of the Brooklyn Historical Society

• The Oral History Collection – containing interviews with over 300 narrators
• Photographs, documents, and artifacts from Brooklyn’s Vietnam Veterans
• A rare 1770 map by Bernard Ratzer
• The Renaissance Revival styled building and period interiors
• Architectural sculptures including busts of Michelangelo, Beethoven, Gutenberg, Shakespeare, Columbus, a Viking, and a Native American
• A collection of historical maps spanning the years 1562–2011
• The papers of abolitionist clergyman Henry Ward Beecher
• A collection of microfiche pamphlets on slavery and abolition
• The Brooklyn Firefighting Collection
• The Brooklyn Council of Churches Collection

“Colored Citizens to Arms!” recruitment poster, 1863 – Brooklyn Historical Society

Brooklyn Historical Society

• Museum:         Brooklyn Historical Society
• City:                 Brooklyn
• State:               New York
• Country:          United States                    
• Founded:        1863
• Type:               History Museum, Specialist Museum
• Location:        128 Pierrepont Street, Brooklyn Heights, New York City

Brooklyn Historical Society – Map

Brooklyn Historical Society – 360 Virtual Views

 

Brooklyn Historical Society – 360 Virtual Views

Brooklyn Historical Society – 360 Virtual Views

A Tour of New York Museums

• Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET
• Museum of Modern Art, NYC
• Intrepid, Sea, Air & Space Museum
• Neue Galerie New York
• The Cloisters
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
• American Museum of Natural History
• Museum of the City of New York
• New-York Historical Society
• Frick Collection
• Met Breuer
• Rubin Museum of Art
• Jewish Museum
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• National Museum of the American Indian
• Brooklyn Museum
• New York Transit Museum
• Brooklyn Historical Society

Brooklyn Historical Society

Brooklyn Historical Society

Virtual Tour of the Museums in Washington, D.C.

• National Gallery of Art
• National Museum of American History
• National Air and Space Museum
• National Museum of African American History and Culture
• National Museum of Natural History
• National Portrait Gallery
• Smithsonian American Art Museum
• The Phillips Collection
• Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
• International Spy Museum
• National Museum of Women in the Arts
• United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
• Freer Gallery of Art
• Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
• National Museum of the United States Navy
• National Museum of the American Indian
• National Postal Museum
• National Museum of African Art
• National Building Museum
• Smithsonian National Zoological Park
• National Law Enforcement Museum

Brooklyn Historical Society

Brooklyn Historical Society

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“History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.”
– John F. Kennedy

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