The world’s oldest public art museum is considered to be Switzerland’s Kunstmuseum Basel. The world’s oldest orchestra is said to be the Royal Danish (it dates to 1448).lucky sprite

Then there is the borough of Brooklyn, no slouch with its own famous firsts. In addition to Nathan’s Famous hot-dog stand and Junior’s Cheesecake emporium, it claims the world’s oldest children’s museum, founded in 1899.

Situated on a leafy corner of the Crown Heights neighborhood, the Brooklyn Children’s Museum commemorated its 125th anniversary last weekend with a daylong celebration. A few weeks earlier, its president and chief executive, Atiba T. Edwards, had his own anniversary — his first year on the job.

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Appointed in November 2023, Edwards, 41, has faced the task of stewarding the institution, now one of more than 300 children’s museums globally, at a moment of municipal austerity.

The anniversary arrives in the aftermath of the 2019 decision to close the museum’s annex in the Dumbo neighborhood — the institution’s first expansion outside Crown Heights in its long history. It shut just three years after it opened and amid continued discussion over whom the museum ought to serve, a debate that mirrors the ever-present discourse around gentrification in Crown Heights.

ImageAtiba Edwards, the director of the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, at the lit rainbow tunnel that leads up to the lobby.Credit...Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times

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