Brooklyn Museum to Celebrate Mother's Day, 5/10

The Brooklyn Museum, always a wonderful venue for a Mother's Day celebration for the entire family, offers unique shopping, brunch, and museum activities on Sunday May 10, 2015, to make any mom's special day truly special.

The Museum Shop will offer a trunk show with Carole Amper from Toucan Hats that will include fascinators as well as hats. Other items appropriate for Mother's Day gifts, by the many designers and artisans featured at the store, will also be available. Toucan Hats are created using traditional hat-making techniques such as manual pressing stampers that shape straw and felt raw materials into classic hat shapes including flappers, cloches, fedoras, and sunhats. Most of the hats are decorated with a variety of premium millinery materials such as silk flowers, textured fabrics, hand dyed and grosgrain ribbons, and feathers and appliqué.

The annual Mother's Day Brunch features a buffet-style menu including champagne and seasonal juices, pastry baskets, assorted quiche, pasta salad, and roasted-salmon salad. The brunch is held in the spectacular Beaux-Arts Court from 11 a.m. to 12 noon, with special tours of the Museum continuing until 1:30 p.m.

New this year, each participant will receive a gift bag of certified Brooklyn-Made goods and a pass to the WantedDesign and BKLYN Designs fairs, both taking place the same weekend. Free shuttle service will be provided, running between the Museum and both design fairs. Brunch is priced at $60 per adult, $50 for Museum Members, and $33 per child. Morris Kitchen's Pineapple Lime mixer will be served at the brunch. It will also be sold in the Museum Shop. Shop coupons will also be available.

The Brooklyn Museum is a Museum partner for BKLYN DESIGNS, opening May 8 at the Brooklyn Expo Center in Greenpoint, and WantedDesign, opening May 9 at Industry City in Sunset Park. The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is partnering with the Museum on the gift bag and the design fair promotion.

Related to the design fairs, the Brooklyn Museum will offer a guided, design-centric tour at 2pm on May 9th led by Decorative Arts Curator Barry Harwood. Attendance for the tour is limited, free, and will require pre-registration. Barry Harwood will also be participating in two panels at WantedDesign at Industry City to take place from 4-4:30pm & 4:30-5:30 on May 9th. Both panels will be free and open to the public.