Brooklyn Museum: Calendar: For Visitors with Disabilities

A fabric-based artwork of a person making peace signs — Bisa Butler. Bring a Folding Chair: A Portrait of Shirley Chisholm, 2024. Cotton, silk, wool, polyester, vinyl. © and courtesy of the artist.

Virtual Verbal Description Tour: New Frameworks for American Art

Tuesday, February 4, 2025
6–7:30 pm

Online

Blind individuals and those with low vision are invited to experience Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art in a vivid, online verbal description tour.

Painting of a seated woman holding a bouquet of flowers — Laura Wheeler Waring. *Woman with Bouquet*, ca. 1940. Oil on canvas. Brooklyn Museum; Brooklyn Museum Fund for African American Art in honor of Teresa A. Carbone, 2016.2. © Estate of Laura Wheeler Waring (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Brooklyn Afternoons Online: New Frameworks for American Art

Tuesday, February 11, 2025
2–3:15 pm

Online

Individuals with memory loss and their care partners are invited to a virtual exploration of Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art.

Verbal Description Tour: New Frameworks for American Art

Tuesday, February 18, 2025
3–4:30 pm

Meet in Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Blind individuals and those with low vision are invited to experience Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art in a vivid verbal description tour.

Brooklyn Mornings: New Frameworks for American Art

Tuesday, February 25, 2025
11 am–12:30 pm

Meet in Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Individuals with memory loss and their care partners are invited to an exploration of Toward Joy: New Frameworks for American Art, followed by art-making.

Painting of a woman peeking out from under a headscarf — Jenna Gribbon. *Big Peek*, 2022. Oil on linen. Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Jonathan and Debbie Rosen, 2023.30. © Jenna Gribbon. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Virtual Verbal Description Tour: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Tuesday, March 4, 2025
6–7:30 pm

Online

Blind individuals and those with low vision are invited to experience Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 in a vivid, online verbal description tour.

A colorful artwork made up of squares with letters and patterns — Jeffrey Gibson. *WHEN FIRE IS APPLIED TO A STONE IT CRACKS*, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, glass beads, and artificial sinew. Brooklyn Museum, William K. Jacobs, Jr. Fund, 2020.20. © Jeffrey Gibson (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

Brooklyn Afternoons Online: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Tuesday, March 11, 2025
2–3:15 pm

Online

Individuals with memory loss and their care partners are invited to a virtual exploration of Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200.

Verbal Description Tour: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Tuesday, March 18, 2025
3–4:30 pm

Meet in Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Blind individuals and those with low vision are invited to experience Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200 in a vivid verbal description tour.

Balenciaga and Demna, creative director. *Golden Ballroom Dress*, Haute Couture collection, Spring/Summer 2020. Gold crinkled papery metallized polyester. Balenciaga Archives Paris. (Photo: © Pari Dukovic / Trunk Archive)

ASL Tour: Solid Gold

Saturday, March 22, 2025
11 am–1 pm

Meet in Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Visitors from the D/deaf community are invited to experience Solid Gold in an American Sign Language (ASL) tour, led by a Deaf teaching artist.

Brooklyn Mornings: Brooklyn Museum at 200

Tuesday, March 25, 2025
11 am–12:30 pm

Meet in Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

Individuals with memory loss and their care partners are invited to an exploration of Breaking the Mold: Brooklyn Museum at 200, followed by art-making.