Brooklyn Children's Museum

Planet Brooklyn: Chinese New Year celebration will kick off the Year of the
Boar at Brooklyn Children's Museum on Saturday, February 10, from 12-5pm. Families can create their own lanterns, learn to play shuttlecock and other Chinese games, and meet real "dragons" from the Museum's live animal collection. And don't miss a special performance by the lion dance team from Yee's Hung Ga Kung Fu Association of Brooklyn - including a peek inside the lion's head!

145 Brooklyn Avenue

Brooklyn Museum

Celebrate Heart of Brooklyn's fifth anniversary in Brooklyn Museum's spectacular collection of ancient Egyptian masterpieces. The galleries include more than 1,000 treasures spanning 5,000 years, from pre-dynastic times through the reign of Cleopatra. See beautifully decorated coffins, a mummy, monumental stone statues, jewelry worn by the pharoahs, and a relief with the world's first-known representation of a kiss, all a part of the collection considered to be one of the finest in the world. And be sure to catch the newly opened Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism. This exhibition has over forty superb examples of nineteenth century French and American landscapes by such artists as Gustave Courbet, Claude Monet and John Singer Sargent.

200 Eastern Parkway

Brooklyn Public Library

Black History Month at your library is musical, visual and enlightening with events for the whole family. Take the kids to our Chesstizing Workshop to learn to play this twist on chess that incorporates African history (pictured left) at Central Library (Grand Army Plaza) on February 10 at 1pm. Or, hear vocalist Chanda Rule perform African, African American, Caribbean and Latin American music at Central on February 10 at 4pm. And you and your family can make music of your own at A World of Beat, an interactive lecture featuring drumming and dance at Bedford Library (496 Franklin Avenue) on February 14 at 6pm.

And kids, teens and adults still have time to apply to the Sixth Annual My Brooklyn Photo + Essay Contest and win a $500, $300 or $100 U.S. Savings Bond. See our website for details.

Central Library at Grand Army Plaza

Prospect Park

On Monday, February 11, at 9:30am, check out Nature Babies, a delightful nature-themed music, storytelling and crafts program for 18-month to 3-year-olds and their caregivers. $20 per session. Prepay to receive a discounted rate. Audubon Center. Call (718) 287-3400 x104 to register.

Near the Lincoln Road/Ocean Ave. Entrance fo the Park

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