THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM 



Place; or from the Brooklyn Bridge by Flatbush Avenue car 

 to Prospect Park, and thence along Eastern Parkway to the 

 Museum building. 



The Museum is open free on all holidays and every day 

 in the week except Mondays and Tuesdays, when a charge 

 of twenty-five cents for adults and ten cents for children 

 under sixteen is made. Teachers with their classes are ad- 

 mitted free at all times, including pay days. 



Hours for visitors are 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday to Satur- 

 day inclusive, Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. and Thursday even- 

 ing from 7.30 to 9.45. 



The Museum has three departments: Fine Arts, Ethnol- 

 ogy and Natural History. For the purposes of this Guide the 

 two latter only will be considered. 



The Ethnological Exhibits are installed as follows: In the 

 Sub-basement galleries, collections from Japan and Korea; 

 in the Basement, specimens and collections from Polynesia, 

 Siam, Java, Burma, Japan, China and Tibet; on the First 

 Floor, collections from the Indians of Southwestern United 

 States, Central and Northern California and the Northwest 

 Coast of America, and the Avery Collection of Chinese 

 Cloisonne. In addition, collections from East India are in- 

 stalled in cases on the stairway landings. 



The Natural History Collections occupy the entire Second 

 Floor. 



The main entrance of the building is used only on Sun- 

 days and holidays. The week-day entrance hall is on the 

 basement floor west of the main entrance, and from this 



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