Brooklyn Museum Shop Opens for Business

<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The <a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/">Brooklyn Museum</a> Shop, designed by </span><a href="http://www.visbeen.biz/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Visbeen Associates</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, is now open for business!  It opened it's doors to the public on April 4 and will be having an open house this evening from 7:00pm-9:00pm - if you are in the NYC area, feel free to stop by! (</span><a href="http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/calendar/event/5338"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Click here</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> for details regarding this event)  </span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><br /></span><br /><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The media is talking about this great new space.  As written by </span><a href="http://nymag.com/listings/stores/brooklyn-museum-shop/"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">New York Magazine</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">, "w</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">hat began as a humble gift stand in the thirties has morphed into a spacious shop off the museum’s lobby with eclectic gift items from the Americas, Asia, and Africa."</span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">  </span></span><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/garden/the-brooklyn-museum-shop-expands.html"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">The New York Times</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"> featured this article about the expansion:</span><br /><br /><br /><div class="columnGroup first" style="clear: both; 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Brooklyn Museum Shop Opens for Business

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