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Happy Friday! It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! For this week’s kid-friendly edition, the #ASKbkm team has formulated questions for your little ones about some of the Museum’s most colorful works. View the quiz now on Twitter or in our Instagram stories,  and don’t forget to check out past quizzes in our Story Highlights!

Time to stop monkeying around and take our brand new Art History Pop Quiz! This week, the ASK Brooklyn Museum engagement team has crafted questions focused on the most-asked-about artworks in our Ancient Egyptian collection. Head to our Instagram Stories or Twitter feed to play along.

Earth Day may not be until next week, but you can celebrate a few days early with today’s Art History Pop Quiz! This time around, our ASK Brooklyn Museum team has penned a set of kid-friendly questions about works in our collection centered on the animal kingdom. Take the quiz now on our Instagram or Twitter feed, and don’t forget to check out past quizzes in our Instagram story highlights!

"Rembrandt Peale’s portrait of his daughters Rosalba and Eleanor always reminds me of one of my first visits to the Brooklyn Museum, when I was a student at Fordham University and I chose this work as my subject for an essay assignment. Over my five years at the Museum, I’ve been able to share this painting with other visitors in various ways, including gallery tours and with our ASK app. I still say 'hello' to these women whenever I walk by, taking a moment to notice their graceful interconnected pose and the painter’s palette and sheet music—evidence of their own talents—on the table behind them. More and more, this portrait encourages me to reflect on continuity and close bonds between family members, between female friends, and between people who experience or make art together." 

This year marks Walt Whitman’s 200th birthday, so this month we’ll be featuring works from the collection along with commentary from Whitman’s writings.

In the 1850s, Walt Whitman frequented an exhibition of Egyptian artifacts now part of the Brooklyn Museum’s collection. He befriended the original collector, Dr. Henry Abbott, and even read through a two-volume history of ancient Egypt (a rare feat for the poet, who notoriously left books unfinished). The royal effect and calm expression of statues like this one resonated with Whitman, who called the Egyptian collection “a place to go when one would ponder and evolve great thoughts.”

Continue the Whitman celebrations on October 25, when we unveil a new artwork inspired by the famous Brooklynite in One: Xu Bing and use the #ASKBKM app to tour the Museum in the author’s footsteps.

It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! For the second edition, our ASK Brooklyn Museum team is celebrating the final Friday of Women’s History Month with a set of questions highlighting some of the wonderful womxn in our collection. Head to our Instagram stories or Twitter feed now to take this week’s quiz, and be sure to let us know how you did!⁠ ⁠ 

It’s time for another round of Art History Pop Quiz! This week, our #ASKbkm team has brewed up a set of kid-friendly questions focused on fun and games for your little ones at home. Head to our Instagram stories or Twitter feed now to take this week’s quiz, and be sure to let us know how you did!⁠

During closure we’re eager to connect with you, our community, in fun and engaging ways. Today on our Instagram stories, we are excited to launch Art History Pop Quiz, a new series that quizzes your knowledge of works in the Museum. Join us each week as our ASK Brooklyn Museum team picks your brain with a new set of questions!⁠

Play along now and let us know how you do!