Check back in late summer for a NEW museum adventure for ages 4–6! Calendar View a listing by month of programs for families of all ages. Birthday Parties Celebrate at the Brooklyn Museum! Available ...

I do not think of myself as a benefactor. I am a public historian, social and arts activist, and American Indian advocate and as such have found myself being conscious of the world around me and ...

The Brooklyn Museum stands on land that is part of the unceded, ancestral homeland of the Lenape (Delaware) people.

Helen Diner is the American pseudonym for German-born Bertha Eckstein-Diener. Diner was a member of the “Arthurians,” a group of European intellectuals active in the 1930s, who each adopted a name ...

Christabel Pankhurst was the eldest daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst and Dr. Richard Pankhurst. In 1903, Christabel, her mother, and her sister Sylvia founded the Women’s Social and Political Union ...

The household in which Anne Cooke Bacon grew up was hailed by the Elizabethan intellectual Walter Haddon as a “small university.” Each of Anthony Cooke’s five daughters received a thorough humanist ...

Emmeline Pankhurst was schooled in radicalism at an early age—her father was an abolitionist, her mother a feminist. Her mother had inducted her into the suffrage movement by the early 1870s. She ...

Historical assessments of Catherine the Great have not been kind. She was, indeed, a complex and contradictory personality. Inspired by Enlightenment ideals, she was nevertheless threatened by their ...

Aletta Jacobs was the first woman to attend a university and receive a medical degree in the Netherlands. As a physician, her work with destitute women led to one of her core missions, to make ...

Sarah Ponsonby and her life companion Eleanor Butler were known as the “Ladies of Llangollen.” Named after the Welsh town where the two lived together in a Gothic home, the Ladies shared a life ...