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Brooklyn Children’s Museum
educational institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., established in 1899 as the world’s first children’s museum. The museum was originally a part of the Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1823. In 1977 the Children’s Museum opened in a building in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, after nearly seven decades of operation in two Victorian mansions. The museum’s more than 30,000 cultural artifacts...
Certain museums provide for a particular audience, often acquiring general collections to suit the purpose. One of these is the children’s museum (also frequented by adults), well-known examples of which are the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York City; the Children’s Museum, Boston; the National Children’s Museum of New Delhi; and the Mont Riant Children’s Museum of Algiers.
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