Next Stop, BPL: Look carefully at the front entrance of the main branch of the BPL at Grand Army Plaza. What do you think the library's directors wanted you to think about, or feel, when entering the library? Do you see the clues they left you? Who are the characters in the pictures above the front door? What do the inscriptions on either side of the doors say? What does the style of the building tell you about what was important to the library's directors?

Next stop, BMA: Go to the Museum and take a good look around. Can you imagine what the entrance would be like if there were a grand staircase there again? Can you figure out where the original auditorium was? Can you find the place in the Museum where the 1980 extension is joined to the original building? Now go behind the Museum, and try to imagine where the rest of it would be if the whole original design had been built. How far would it stretch?

Activity: Write a letter to the Director of BMA, telling him if you think BMA should keep the front entrance the way it is now, or rebuild a grand staircase. Be sure to explain why you feel the way you do.

Next Stop, BCM: When BCM opened its doors to the public in 1899 it looked liKE this. BCM is now making plans to design a new entrance. Go to the Museum and look at the entrance. If you were designing a new entrance, what would it look like? Draw a picture, or build a model of the entrance you would like BCM to have.

Activity: Build a three-dimensional model of your Dream Museum. You can build your model out of cardboard, papier-maché, or found objects (a shoe box could help you get a good start). You might want to even make trees, grass, roads, the parking lot, and build them all to scale.

The Brooklyn Bridge: is another great monument of late nineteenth-century architecture. Learn when and how it was built.