Guided Tour with Buffet Lunch Enjoy a 90-minute seasonal highlights tour of many specialty gardens within this 52-acre natural wonder. Peak viewing months are listed below:

Japanese-Hill-and-Pond-Garden      April, May, October

Lily Pool Terrace      July, August, September

Cranford Rose Garden      June, September

Fragrance Garden      July, September

Steinhardt Conservatory      Year-Round

C.V. Starr Bonsai Museum      Year-Round

Meet the Curator Tour Learn from a gardening expert! Experience a unique tour led by our curator of the Steinhardt Conservatory in conjunction with a Seasonal Highlights tour led by our Garden Guides.

Lunch Tour & Workshop Enjoy a 90-minute Seasonal Highlights guided tour and a gourmet buffet lunch in the world famous Steinhardt Conservatory. After lunch, participate in a 90-minute specialty workshop led by an expert instructor. 

Workshop themes include: Seasonal Fresh Flowers, Creative Containers, and Easy Orchids

Guided Tours with Buffet Lunch Take a 75-minute tour with the Museum’s expert docents and enjoy a Buffet Lunch in the magnificent Beaux Arts Court, amidst European paintings. Choose from the permanent collections described below, or ask about current and upcoming special exhibitions. 

Permanent Exhibits:

Brooklyn’s Radiant New Art Palace Explore the new façade and the ongoing restoration and renovation of the historic neo-classical building that is the Brooklyn Museum. This tour is available April through October. 

Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity This exclusive tour offers special insight into one of the world’s finest collections of Egyptian art. With more than six hundred additional objects from the Museum’s world-renowned ancient Egyptian holdings, Egypt Reborn more than doubles the number of works previously on view.

Luce Center American Identities & Visible Storage Get an exclusive behind-the-scenes view of one of the world’s largest permanent collections. 350 works from the Museum’s American painting and sculpture collection are presented with related objects from the Decorative Arts, and Native American and Spanish colonial holdings. The 5,000 square foot Visible Storage Study Center, houses some 1,500 American objects that until now have only been available to curators and scholars.

Birding in Prospect Park Home to the nation’s first urban Audubon Center,
Prospect Park is home to over 200 visiting and resident species of bird, many rare and unusual. Learn how to identify bird species using field guides and binoculars, and witness the wonders of bird life in Brooklyn, all under the guidance of an expert Teacher-Naturalist from the Prospect Park Audubon Center.

Prospect Park by Land and Water Explore Prospect Park on board the Independence, an authentic turn-of-the-century-style electric boat offering whisper-quiet tours of the Park’s waterways. Following the narrated ride, guests will head back to solid ground for a guided walking tour of flower-filled meadows and thriving woodlands studded with flowing waterfalls and trickling streams.  This tour is available April through October.

Explore the Natural History of Brooklyn’s Jewel Our expert naturalist will board your bus for a narrated tour of the park. Stops include the Prospect Park Audubon Center, housed inside the beautiful 1905 Beaux Arts-style Boathouse; the rolling 90-acre Long Meadow; the Neathermead, a fairy tale-like clearing in the woods; and the Park’s lovingly restored ravine, a waterfall-studded gorge cutting through the center of Brooklyn’s only forest.

History Comes Alive in Prospect Park Learn about Prospect Park through the eyes of its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the renowned landscape architects who also designed Central Park but considered Prospect Park to be their finest achievement. Tour Lefferts Historic House, an 18th century Dutch farmhouse, and learn how Brooklynites have lived over the past few hundred years. Be transported back to 1905 at the Beaux-Arts terracotta Boathouse.