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The building may be yellow, but Brooklyn Children’s Museum is really “Green”

September 18th, 2008 by Amy Wysowski

The Brooklyn Children Museum held a ribbon-cutting ceremony Wednesday to unveil the newly renovated building, which doubled in size and features all new exhibits.  

While the museum boasts about it’s new exhibits, they are not what impressed me most.  After all, I am not in the 6 month-12 year age range that they are aimed it.  What did impress me, however, was the fact that the museum is New York City’s first “green” museum, certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design program of the U.S. Green Building Council. (more…)