Brooklyn Museum

The Brooklyn Museum has been fortunate to have support from IMLS to make its collections more accessible to a large and varied audience of local, national and international researchers. The IMLS CHART Project has allowed us to work with a superb group of Pratt-SILS student interns since the fall of 2010. Their diverse backgrounds helped us gain insight into the communities we are trying to reach through the Brooklyn Visual Heritage website and the Brooklyn Museum’s Libraries and Archives collections. To date, our Project CHART interns have digitized over 1,000 historic, Brooklyn-based materials, including photographs, lantern slides, advertising trade cards and post cards. Bibliographic records for all the materials digitized by the Brooklyn Museum can be found in Brookmuse, the online library catalog for the Brooklyn Museum as well as in WorldCat, an internationally available bibliographic database.           

We hope that the Brooklyn Visual Heritage website will be a resource which makes our collections even more accessible and fosters learning about Brooklyn, its history and culture. Through this a dynamic presentation of our digital collections, we hope to encourage scholarship for our interns and to serve the needs of members of our community, and all those interested in the history and preservation of Brooklyn, New York.