CHILDREN'S MUSEUM 



or by Fulton Street elevated to Tompkins Avenue station, 

 or from Williamsburg Bridge by Nostrand Avenue and 

 Tompkins Avenue cars to Prospect Place. 



The Museum is open free every day in the year: on week 

 days from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., on Sundays from 2 to 

 5:30 p.m. 



Although managed and controlled by the Trustees of the 

 Brooklyn Institute, the Museum is supported in part by 

 optional annual grants from the City of New York and in 

 part by the contributions of friends. 



The Museum collections illustrate Zoology, Botany, Min- 

 eralogy and United States History. 



FIRST FLOOR 



"Our youth we can have but to-day, 

 We may always find time to grow old." 



Berkeley. 



In the north entrance hallway is a Botanical Exhibit con- 

 sisting of a series of dissectible models, on a highly en- 

 larged scale, showing successive stages in the germination 

 and growth of common plants such as the bean and wheat. 

 In the rooms at the right are the Birds of Prospect Park, 

 grouped according to seasons into regular spring, summer, 

 autumn and winter visitors; the occasional and rare visitors, 

 and the permanent residents. At the south end of the build- 

 ing is the Zoological Type Collection, comprising a series 

 of animals in an ascending scale from the lowest orders up 



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