Journals, diaries, memoirs, whatever you call it, we want it. Brooklyn Art Library is all about humans sharing stories. We are building a global time capsule to help articulate, in an analog way, our collective creative thoughts.

We’re the Brooklyn Art Library.
Home to the World’s Largest Collection
of Artist’s Sketchbooks.

We’re collecting stories
and we want yours.

Do you have a story you want to share with the world? A word of encouragement or perspective you want to leave on a shelf for a stranger to find? Don’t worry too much about it. One of our favorite 10 year olds once told us, 'If you make a mistake, don't fix it. Just make sure it was part of it."

Become a citizen of
our global library.

Our library has hundreds of thousands of checkouts a year. People from over 100 countries have contributed to this collection. This project is all about being inclusive and sharing ideas on a global level. For viewing books at our library, we use a system that based not on skill, but content and tag words, (with a bit of randomness mixed in).

An analog archive
for the digital world.

Our world is constantly inundated by the digital - but what if there was still a place you could visit, a creative archive you could contribute to, that focuses on the power of creating in the physical form? Yes, we’re a museum that actually encourages you to touch the art.