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It’s been about six months since we partnered with Tiny Cards by Duolingo to create learning decks featuring artworks in our collection and we’ve been busy. Since we published our first deck, Famous Faces of Ancient Egypt, we’ve added 10 more decks featuring different collection areas from Japanese Printmakers to Masquerade in African Art.

We publish a new deck about every 2 weeks, so be sure to check-in regularly on Tiny Cards—they now have a website in addition to the app—to learn more. Have a favorite artwork, idea, or collection you’d like to learn more about? Let us know and we’ll explore adding that to our growing list of decks in-process.

Hey, art lovers! Looking for a New Year’s resolution you might actually keep? How about boning up on your art history? We’ve partnered with Tiny Cards, Duolingo’s new iOS flashcard app, to create learning decks featuring our collection. The content will be varied, think: Famous Faces of Ancient Egypt, Chinese Art 101, Spotting Saints in Sacred Art, Women Artists in the Brooklyn Museum, and Animals & Gods.

Our Audience Engagement team (those fabulous folks who answer incoming questions via our ASK app), will be working with our curators to brainstorm all kinds of fun things for you to learn. Huge shout out to Roko, who brought this fun partnership our way and big thanks to Zan and the team at Tiny Cards for thinking of us!

We just published our first two decks, so download the app, follow our account, and get learning!

Do you have an Android? We know you love it so much—and guess what?—our ASK Brooklyn Museum app is coming to Android this April!

ASK Brooklyn Museum is an app that gives you the opportunity to ask any and all questions  you may have about art in our collection and exhibitions. You’ll get answers in real time from a team of art historians and educators. You can send photos and text to our ASK team to get more info, discover connections to other works nearby, and ask for personalized recommendations.

We could use your help to test this exciting upcoming release! If you have an Android device and a half hour to spare, we hope you’ll spend it with us and sign up for one of our upcoming testing slots.

We’re excited to start rolling out some big changes happening here at the Museum as part of an exciting initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies called #BloombergConnects. Here we’ll be updating you on these changes as they happen so say tuned! Step one of our lobby transformation is complete--our admissions desk has been removed to make room for the new furniture components designed by Situ Studio as part of our Bloomberg Connects visitor experience initiative. While on the surface new furniture might not seem that exciting, we’re pretty stoked because this furniture is unique. As Situ Studio Partner Aleksey Lukyanov-Cherny puts it:

"For us, the most compelling aspect of our involvement is that the entire suite of furniture we are designing and fabricating is flexible and dynamic - allowing for a variety of programs and functions that provide for a richer, more vibrant visitor experience."  

Right now Situ is putting the finishing touches on these dynamic pieces, which will be arriving in groups over the coming weeks starting with new ticketing desks. 

We’re excited to start rolling out some big changes happening here at the Museum as part of an exciting initiative funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies called #BloombergConnects. Here we’ll be updating you on these changes as they happen so say tuned!

You’re soon going to see many changes to our lobby as part of our Bloomberg Connects visitor experience initiative. We’re working to create a more inviting space, which will include new furniture components design by SITU Studio, new environmental graphics by MTWTF, and more art. Stay tuned for more on this, including photos that will take you behind the scenes in the fabrication process.

To make room for these new elements, we’ll be painting the walls, removing existing graphics, and even removing the existing admissions desk. Some of this work has already begun. The lobby might feel a little in limbo until June, but we promise exciting things on the other side of this transition!