This is the 2nd largest art museum in New York City and one of the largest in the USA. Its permanent collection includes more than 1.5 million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art, and represents almost every culture. It is best known for its notable temporary exhibitions - which ranged from "Sensation: Young British Artists from Saatchi Collection", which drew international media attention & record crowds who came to see it, to "Star Wars: The Magic of Myth" to "Jewish Life in Ancient Egypt". Located in Central Brooklyn, a half-hour from midtown Manhattan with its own subway stop, the Museum is set on Eastern Parkway and one block from Grand Army Plaza in a complex of 19th-century parks that also contains Prospect Park, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden & the Wildlife Center.

52-acre sanctuary just down the street from the Brooklyn Museum of Art is wonderful place to learn more about flowers, trees and plants as well as spend a beautiful day, particularly in May, when thousands of deep pink blossoms of cherry trees are abloom. Cranford Rose Garden is one of the largest and finest in the country. Here, over 5,000 bushes of nearly 1,200 varieties thrive, including All-America Rose Selections, wild species, old garden roses, hybrid teas, grandifloras, floribundas, polyanthas, hybrid perpetuals, climbers, ramblers, and miniatures. Shakespeare Garden is an English garden featuring plants mentioned in his writings. Japanese Hill and Pond Garden and C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum with world's oldest and largest collection of bonsai are also a part of Brooklyn Botanic Garden.

With exhibits featuring over 8,000 animals, the Aquarium offers diversity, superb viewing, and world-renowned scientific expertise that assure a rewarding experience and the knowledge that people can make a difference in the ocean world around them. Learn about animals living as far away as the Southwest coast of Africa and the Arctic to those found locally in our own Hudson River. Taking center stage are Atlantic dolphins and California sea lions that perform daily during summer at the Aquatheater. Penguins, California sea otters, and a variety of seals live at the Sea Cliffs exhibits, a re-creation of a Pacific coastal habitat. White Beluga whales, Pacific octopuses, sharks, sea horses were found a home here.