A New Brooklyn Museum: The Master Plan Competition

$20.00 at Brooklyn Museum.

A dictum followed by The Brooklyn Museum's founders in 1893 when they sponsored an architectural competition to determine a design for a museum building still holds true today: the facilities that house great public art collections should be glorious symbols of civic pride. In considering how to expand the building that resulted from that competition in order to accommodate the growth in the Museum's collections experienced during the twentieth century, the Museum's Board of Trustees wanted to rekindle the…