Explore the Brooklyn Cultural District
The Brooklyn Cultural District, home to diverse cultural groups representing nearly every artistic discipline, stretches across Downtown Brooklyn, DUMBO, and the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The breadth, diversity, and density of these organizations, ranging from the 18,000+ seat Barclays Center to one-room galleries in Dumbo, is unmatched and represents one of the City’s great cultural destinations. Explore the map below to navigate all that the district has to offer.
- 651 ARTS
- A.I.R. Gallery
- A.R.T./NY South Oxford Space
- BAM Peter Jay Sharp Building
- BAM Richard B. Fisher Building
- Barclays Center
- BRIC House
- Brooklyn Ballet
- Brooklyn Historical Society
- Brooklyn Music School
- Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92
- Dancewave
- Harvey Theater at BAM Strong
- Irondale Center
- ISSUE Project Room
- Klompching Gallery
- Kumble Theater
- Mark Morris Dance Center
- MoCADA
- New York Transit Museum
- Roulette
- Smack Mellon
- St. Ann's Warehouse
- The Center for Fiction
- The Mark O'Donnell Theater @ The Actors Fund Arts Center
- Theatre for a New Audience at Polonsky Shakespeare Center
- UrbanGlass
- Usagi
651 Fulton Street
651 ARTS presents live dance, music, and theater events in venues throughout Brooklyn, and maintains a robust educational program.
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155 Plymouth Street
A.I.R. Gallery is a permanent exhibition space that supports an open exchange of ideas and risk-taking by women artists in order to provide support and visibility.
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138 South Oxford Street
A.R.T./New York is the service and advocacy organization for the nation’s largest, most artistically influential and culturally diverse theater community: Off Broadway.
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30 Lafayette Avenue
The Peter Jay Sharp Building houses the BAM Rose Cinemas, the Howard Gilman Opera House, and the Lepercq Space/BAMcafé.
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321 Ashland Place
The BAM Richard B. Fisher Building - houses the Fishman Space, BAM Fisher HIllman Studio, BAM Fisher Rooftop Terrace and Stutz Gardens, and Leavitt Workshop.
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620 Atlantic Avenue
Barclays Center serves as the home of the NBA's Brooklyn Nets and can accommodate up to 19,000 visitors for musical performances.
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647 Fulton Street
BRIC provides a platform for the development of new works in theater, dance, music, and multi-disciplinary performance.
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160 Schermerhorn Street
Brooklyn Ballet is a professional, not-for-profit dance company dedicated to artistic excellence, education, and serving Brooklyn’s diverse communities, and is home to performances, classes and rehearsal spaces.
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128 Pierrepont Street
Founded in 1863, BHS is a nationally recognized urban history center dedicated to preserving and encouraging the study of Brooklyn's extraordinary 400-year history.
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126 Saint Felix Street
The Brooklyn Music School is a community school for the performing arts, founded in 1912 as the Brooklyn Music School Settlement.
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63 Flushing Avenue
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Center at BLDG 92 showcases the history and innovation of The Brooklyn Navy Yard from the Revolutionary War to the revolution in jobs and industry happening in New York City right now.
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182 Fourth Avenue
Dancewave dance center that offers an innovative model for dance education.
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651 Fulton Street
The Harvey Theater at BAM Strong, originally the Majestic Theater, was renamed in 1999 in honor of former BAM president Harvey Lichtenstein.
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85 South Oxford Street
The Irondale Ensemble Project has a rich 25-year history of producing and teaching experimental theater.
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22 Boerum Place
ISSUE Project Room is a pioneering performance center, presenting projects by both emerging and established experimental artists.
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89 Water Street
The gallery showcases photography that demonstrates the highest level of craftsmanship.
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1 University Plaza
The Kumble Theater for the Performing Arts at LIU Brooklyn is a dynamic, state-of-the-art performance venue.
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3 Lafayette Avenue
The Mark Morris Dance Center, founded in 2001, is the home of the world-renowned Mark Morris Dance Group, and the hub of dance and music education in Brooklyn.
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80 Hanson Place
MoCADA uses the visual arts as a point of departure for exploring new artistic production across a variety of disciplines.
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99 Schermerhorn Street
The New York Transit Museum is the largest museum in the United States devoted to urban public transportation history, and one of the premier institutions of its kind in the world.
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509 Atlantic Avenue
Roulette is a major New York City venue for contemporary music and intermedia art.
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92 Plymouth Street
Smack Mellon presents solo and group exhibitions in their singular 6,000-square-foot gallery space.
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45 Water Street
For 34 years, St. Ann’s Warehouse has commissioned, produced, and presented a unique and eclectic body of innovative theater and concert presentations that meet at the intersection of theater and rock and roll.
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15 Lafayette Avenue
The Center for Fiction welcomes readers and writers of all ages and from all walks of life.
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160 Schermerhorn Street
The Actors Fund Arts Center is a state-of-the-art black box performance venue and rehearsal space located in the lobby level of The Schermerhorn.
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262 Ashland Place
Theatre for a New Audience is a 299-seat Elizabethan courtyard mainstage dedicated to Shakespeare and classic drama, set in the Polonsky Shakespeare Center in the heart of the Brooklyn Cultural District.
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647 Fulton Street
UrbanGlass is a leading resource for both aspiring and established artists wishing to create with glass.
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163 Plymouth Street
A hybrid space that combines art gallery, library, and café to showcase multi-disciplinary culture, through exhibitions, performances, and workshops.
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