Museum of Arts and Design

Located on Columbus Circle at the bottom of Central Park, MAD’s rooftop is ideally suited for Cultured Bees to forage among the 170 species of trees in the Park and surrounding neighborhoods.

MoMA

Brooklyn Museum

The venerable 150-year old building presides over one of the highest points in Brooklyn, at the edge of Prospect Park and the Brooklyn Botanical Gardens.

Amber honey with a distinctive flavor

MAD honey has a distinctive dark amber color with a wonderful flavor. There is a slight hint of Linden tress from the spring honey flow. A limited supply is available in the MAD Museum gift shop!

MoMA

Located in midtown Manhattan and just a few blocks from Central Park, MoMA has four hives on their roof, helping pollinate trees and flowers all over midtown and throughout Central Park.

120,000 bees hard at work

In 2022, Brooklyn Museum had two hives with about 60,000 Cultured Bees each. We collected almost 30 pounds of beautiful honey for the museum employees. Next season we hope there will be enough to sell a few jars in the gift shop!

Artsy bees?

Last summer, the Cultured Bees bees on top of MAD took it upon themselves to freeform a bit with some comb, creating their own 3D sculpture out of wax. The all-natural, abstract form now resides on an employee’s desk at the museum.

144 million flowers a day

Each single honey bee pollinates 1200 flowers per day (weather permitting). That means the 120,000 Cultured Bees atop the Brooklyn Museum pollinate almost 144 million flowers in Prospect Park and the local neighborhoods every single day.

MAD honey available at the museum!

MAD rooftop honey is now available at the MAD Museum gift shop!