NEW YORK — With more than 4,000 Egyptian antiquities, the Brooklyn Museum of Art has one of the finest collections in the world. But only a fraction, about 500 or ...

The museum became known for its innovations in the early 20th century, when it developed a collection of Egyptian antiquities, and in 1945 it was one of the first museums to dedicate an exhibition ...

Situated in a Beaux-Arts building on Eastern Parkway since 1897, the Brooklyn Museum is the second-largest museum in New York City and an especially unusual target for progressive activists.