I wish I had more time at the Brooklyn Museum! I loved the layout and the special exhibitions which combined historical and contemporary work.
But what about the pieces from the collection that aren’t on current view? I’ve always been erked that you can’t always have access to the entire collection. However, BAM has a solution: The Visible Storage Study Center. In this area, viewers can view the work, look it up in a database and learn about any particular object in the collection. It felt like sneaking into a curator’s closet! So exciting! I wish more institutions approached storage in this way.
–Melissa Hand.