Editing Brooklyn (section)

===Cultural venues===
Brooklyn hosts the world-renowned [[Brooklyn Academy of Music]], the [[Brooklyn Philharmonic]], and the second-largest public art collection in the United States, housed in the [[Brooklyn Museum]].

The Brooklyn Museum, opened in 1897, is New York City's second-largest public art museum. It has in its permanent collection more than 1.5&nbsp;million objects, from ancient Egyptian masterpieces to contemporary art. The [[Brooklyn Children's Museum]], the world's first museum dedicated to children, opened in December 1899. The only such New York State institution accredited by the [[American Alliance of Museums]], it is one of the few globally to have a permanent collection{{spnd}}over 30,000 cultural objects and natural history specimens.

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) includes a 2,109-seat opera house, an 874-seat theater, and the art-house BAM Rose Cinemas. [[Bargemusic]] and St. Ann's Warehouse are on the other side of Downtown Brooklyn in the [[DUMBO]] arts district. [[Brooklyn Technical High School]] has the second-largest auditorium in New York City (after [[Radio City Music Hall]]), with a [[seating capacity]] of over 3,000.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://schools.nyc.gov/ChoicesEnrollment/High/Directory/school/?sid=3330#AdditionalInformationAnchor |title=Brooklyn Technical High School, K430, Borough of Brooklyn|publisher=Schools.nyc.gov |date=October 31, 2008 |access-date=October 24, 2010}}</ref>