Brooklyn Children's Museum

Maintenance & security:in order to serve its community, Brooklyn Children's Museum maintains a 125,000 square foot facility. Maintenance and facilities staff oversee safety, cleanliness and repairs for the plant, and are represented by municipal union dc 37.

Exhibit: in fiscal year 2023, bcm served over 260,000 people, which is up from the almost 200,000 people served in fiscal year 2022.bcm's permanent exhibits include world Brooklyn, a recreated street featuring child-size replicas of real Brooklyn stores; neighborhood nature, an exploration of the borough's ecosystems; collections central, an area that highlights objects from the Museum's collection through themed exhibitions; totally tots, an early childhood sensory learning space; and, colorlab, a studio featuring hands-on art-making highlighting black art and artists.annually, the Museum hosts temporary exhibitions in its visiting exhibits gallery. In the fiscal year 2023, bcm opened sound field, an interactive exhibit that invites children and their caregivers to improvise using a series of giant, fantastical instruments. Sound field was created by composer and inventor paul dresher, in collaboration with composer and educator daniel schmidt. Designed for all ages, all levels of musical experience, and all types of minds, this hands-on installation simultaneously explores music, engineering, and concepts related to simple machines through larger-than-life instruments that move in response to the push, pulls, lifts, and touch of young musicians. Two seasonal exhibits also returned in fiscal year 2023. Artrink: it takes a village, bcm's rooftop art exhibition featuring the work of eighteen local artists and a 3,000 square-foot synthetic ice skating rink, and jurassic mini-golf, which featured a nine-hole mini-golf course and several animatronic dinosaurs.in fiscal year 2022, bcm opened Brooklyn voices, an immersive exhibit that shares a diverse collection of Brooklyn's stories from bcm's historical archives, share a family recipe, play hopscotch with a new friend in the streetscape, and discover how our neighborhoods and streets got their names; artrink: a note to our future, bcm's rooftop art exhibition featuring the work of sixteen local artists and a 3,000 square-foot synthetic ice skating rink, and jurassic mini-golf, which featured a nine-hole mini-golf course and several animatronic dinosaurs.in fiscal year 2021, bcm opened two exhibits: oyster city, telling the story of how oysters have been re-introduced to new york's waterways, and makeryard, a makerspace prompting children to build their own structures and sculptures using recycled materials.

Education:bcm's education programs serve 30,000 students and chaperones annually through 1,000 school and camp field trips; provide free afterschool and summer camp for 200 central Brooklyn families; and serve roughly 100 teens through youth engagement.

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