PROSPECT HEIGHTS — The Brooklyn Museum is planning to reopen Wednesday after an air-conditioning malfunction shuttered the Eastern Parkway institution over the weekend.
The museum’s cooling system conked out Thursday amid a 90-degree heat wave in the city, closing the building from Friday to Sunday while maintenance crews worked to fix the problem, museum staff said.
Despite the fact that some artwork and items at the museum are kept in temperature-controlled conditions, a spokeswoman said that nothing in the museum’s collections were damaged during the outage.
All events that had been scheduled at the museum this weekend were been canceled or rescheduled, including a professional development workshop for teachers, a salon on global African art and a forum on anti-gentrification activism in Brooklyn.
The museum is normally closed on Monday and Tuesdays and is scheduled to reopen with normal hours on Wednesday, the spokeswoman said.
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