BLDG 92

Great museum.
1) It is FREE!
2) It has a giant anchor from an assault ship and a 200+ year old cannon.
3) Excellent place to learn about the shipping/​maritime importance Brooklyn had.

Here’s a great, FREE, place to kill a couple of hours. The museum is housed in a sustainable building that was constructed in 1 week out of salvaged USS Carolina materials. The bathroom water is recycled rainwater, which is held in an underground cistern. The beautiful original materials combined with the modern designs makes for an impressive, artistic space.
The installations include the permanent naval yard history with interactive maps and recordings as well as temporary galleries filled with the goods manufactured at the naval yard. Step outside and you can see the few remaining operational dry docks. If you’re lucky, they’ll be a tug boat, ferry, or other ship being worked on.
Apparently there’s a pretty decent café here as well, though I didn’t have a chance to visit.

BLDG92 is a terrific little museum dedicated to showcasing the Brooklyn Navy Yards historic past, as well as its present mission as a campus for sustainable manufacturing.
The museum is free, and it’s a little small, but definitely a nice place to spend an hour. Plus, since it’s free, it’s a nice place to take a walk and wander around.
The higher up you go, the better views of the industrial water front, and while I’m not crazy about the food at the café on the top floor, the views can’t be beat.
My favorite exhibit is a map of the Yard protected on a table. It is animated to show how the Yard developed and changed over time, and it’s amazingly i interactive: for example, I noticed a burning ship drifting through the scene. I touched it, which opened up a window about the 1960 fire on the USS Constellation, which claimed 50 lives.
A great place to learn about Brooklyn history, especially if you combine it with one of Turnstile Tours’ tours of the Navy Yard.

I recently took a group of 49 veterans and their wives (most in their 80’s) to the museum. We were treated wonderfully by curator Adrianne Murray, who arranged our tours with very knowledgeable docents. Everyone was completely satisfied, which is unusual for seniors.
The museum is very easy to move around in, even with walkers; there are elevators from one floor to another; and there are bathrooms on each floor.
The history of the Yard was well presented, and it was also interesting to hear about the Yard’s emphasis on green energy for the future.
It is quite surprising that no one knows about this wonderful resource. My thanks go out to Ms. Murray for creating and maintaining such a fine exhibit.

Beautiful! This museum was a wonderful experience and I’d really recommend it. Be sure to check out the café on the 6^th Floor!

Interesting. A lot of history relating to brooklyn and New York City. Unfortunately, not much to see. It would’ve been cool if there was more access to the exterior of the navy yard.

I visited the BLDG 92 Brooklyn Navy Yard museum on a Wednesday, when I was also checking out the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm and farmstand. On weekends there’s bus and bike tours of the navy yard, but on a weekday, when I was there, you can only see the three floors of exhibits (free, voluntary donation). Artifacts, photos, models, multimedia and interactive displays show the development of the navy yard and the growth of Brooklyn from rural to urban in the context of general NYC history. I’m the kind of person who enjoys knowing HOW things got done, not just that they happened, and the museum conveys that story. I found a lot that was already familiar mixed with a lot I didn’t yet know, so it was an enriching experience. I plan to return on a weekend for a more in-​depth tour. Lunch at Ted & Honey on the 4^th floor was great. And the building’s upper floors offer great views of Brooklyn, the bridges and the Manhattan skyline.

Great museum that gets no love, seriously this place is always empty. It’s a great history museum. Going into Brooklyn’s history over the years, the origins of the Navy Yard and some historic war artifacts. The place is gorgeous. Amazing design, very modern. The views provided by the top floors are fantastic. You get a great view of the surrounding area which is beautiful on a day like this past weekend.
Show this place some love, it’s the Brooklyn way.

This new museum is beautiful and interesting. It covers the history and current use of the Navy Yard in a fun way. One interactive map shows the physical changes to the land at various stages. Our 3-​year-​old liked the anchor and scavenger hunt, and or 6-​year-​old liked the whole thing.

The food is very good and the space is cool if maybe a little off the beaten path. I went on the first day and they had a few kinks, but they’ll get past that.

I visited BLDG 92 today in the Brooklyn Navy Yard with my husband who is a huge navy/​ship/​maritime enthusiast and we both found the trek out to Brooklyn to be well worth the effort. The museum exhibits are spread throughout three floors with very detailed history of both the navy yards and of Brooklyn itself. There are some really cool touches to the exhibits as well including an anchor from an assault ship and a 200+ year old cannon.
The museum is free but donations are welcome. If you are into history or ships or the navy then check out BLDG 92. It is really cool!