For thousands of years, gold has captured humankind’s imagination, glimmering both materially and metaphorically. Now, the Brooklyn Museum invites visitors to investigate the many gleams from the history of this precious metal in its new exhibition, Solid Gold. This immersive exhibit runs through June 2025 and takes visitors very deep into the millenarian evolution of gold from the time it’s born as a mere shape into more than 400 pieces of artwork, artifacts, and decorative objects spanning 6,000 years of human history.