Brooklyn Children’s Museum

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 and natural history specimens combine with a system of permanent exhibits...