{"id":47664,"date":"2025-11-21T19:08:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47664\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T19:08:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T19:08:20","slug":"state-lawmakers-award-brooklyn-museum-10m-amid-federal-arts-cuts-brooklyn-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/47664\/","title":{"rendered":"State lawmakers award Brooklyn Museum $10M amid federal arts cuts \u2022 Brooklyn Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Brooklyn Museum received $10 million in capital funding secured by Assembly Member Robert Carroll and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie.<\/p>\n

Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

With the Trump administration cutting funds to arts and culture \u2014 a survey by the American Alliance of Museums<\/a> found that one-third of U.S. museums have lost government grants or contracts since President Donald Trump took office \u2014 the Brooklyn Museum on Eastern Parkway in Prospect Heights received a significant financial boost.<\/p>\n

At a Nov. 20 press conference in the museum\u2019s pavilion and lobby, Assembly Member Robert Carroll and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie presented the 200-year-old institution with a $10 million check they secured in the 2024\u201325 budget. The funding will go exclusively toward capital projects and critical building and infrastructure upgrades.<\/p>\n

\"\"Left to right: Assembly Member Stefanie Zinerman, Anne Pasternak, Assembly Member Robert Carroll, and state Sen. Zellnor Myrie. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

Anne Pasternak, the Shelby White and Leon Levy Director of the Brooklyn Museum, expressed gratitude to the Brooklyn lawmakers.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re profoundly thankful to the State of New York \u2014 and to Assembly Member Robert Carroll and State Senator Zellnor Myrie \u2014 for their steadfast support in advancing the next chapter of the Brooklyn Museum,\u201d Pasternak said. \u201cThis important capital investment helps us continue transforming our historic building so we can better serve our audiences, welcome more visitors, and share the power and beauty of art with our growing community.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carroll and Myrie, joined by Zinerman, emphasized the importance of securing capital support for one of Brooklyn\u2019s landmark cultural institutions, which houses more than 140,000 objects representing cultures across the world and spanning more than 6,000 years.<\/p>\n

Carroll, who represents the 44th Assembly District, told Brooklyn Paper that he has been coming to the museum his entire life and believes state and local governments must fund institutions like it.<\/p>\n

\"\"Assembly Member Robert Carroll said it was imperative for state and local governments to fund vital institutions such as the Brooklyn Museum. Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking sure that we\u2019re stewards of this Museum for years and years to come is essential in providing capital to make sure that this Museum is in good repair and can serve the millions of people who come to it every year is so vitally important, as the federal government is ripping money from arts funding as well as critical funding throughout the country,\u201d Carroll said.<\/p>\n

Myrie, whose district includes Crown Heights, East Flatbush, Park Slope, Prospect Heights, Prospect Lefferts Gardens and Windsor Terrace, said he grew up just a few blocks from the museum and spent much of his childhood there.<\/p>\n

\"\"State Sen. Zellnor Myrie described the museum as the \u201cpeople\u2019s museum.\u201d Photo by Gabriele Holtermann<\/p>\n

\u201cHaving this in our neighborhood as a signal of us being worthy of the highest and world-class art culture, it meant a lot for someone that looked like me,\u201d Myrie said, noting that the museum\u2019s programming goes beyond the arts with events such as First Saturdays, which offer free art, music and dancing.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Brooklyn Museum is the people\u2019s museum. This is where an average person, people that are from our communities, people from all over the world, can come and enjoy world-class art and culture without having to pay world-class art and culture prices,\u201d Myrie said. \u201cSo we got to continue to support this institution.\u201d<\/p>\n

Zinerman, who represents the 56th Assembly District, including Bedford-Stuyvesant and Crown Heights, said the museum had always been part of her life.
\n\"\"Assembly Member Stefani Zinerman said that the Brooklyn Museum had always been a part of her life.
Photo by Gabriele Holtermann\n<\/p>\n

\u201cI remember coming here as a little girl, holding my mother, who was an early childhood teacher\u2019s hand,\u201d Zinerman said, praising the museum\u2019s leadership.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know the hard work that you do. We know that it is not always fashionable to do what\u2019s right, and we know that in these times, we\u2019re worried about money and funding and people not investing in historic places because they want to rip them apart and build something new,\u201d she said. \u201cWhat you have done is expand the vision of what a 21st Century institution could be, and you are leading the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brooklyn Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. One of its current exhibitions is \u201cMonet and Venice<\/a>,\u201d New York\u2019s largest museum show dedicated to the artist in more than 25 years. The ticketed exhibition, on view through Feb. 1, 2026, features more than 100 artworks, books and ephemera by the French Impressionist, including 19 of his Venetian paintings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brooklyn Museum received $10 million in capital funding secured by Assembly Member Robert Carroll and state Sen.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":47665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[27010,1149,27011,27012,27013,98,100,642,99,17,1298,9,24,12,370,63,10481,27014],"class_list":["post-47664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-anne-pasternak","tag-art","tag-art-funding","tag-assembly-member-stefani-zinerman","tag-assembly-member-robert-carroll","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-museum","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-culture","tag-museum","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newsletter","tag-nyc","tag-prospect-heights","tag-state-senator-zellnor-myrie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}