Morbid Anatomy Museum

Morbid Anatomy Museum
Established June 27, 2014
Location Brooklyn, New York
Coordinates 40°40′22″N 73°59′24″W / 40.672844°N 73.990053°WCoordinates: 40°40′22″N 73°59′24″W / 40.672844°N 73.990053°W
Type Natural History, Anatomy
Key holdings Morbid Anatomy Library, rotating collections
Founder Joanna Ebenstein
Director Tracy Hurley Martin
Website morbidanatomymuseum.org

The Morbid Anatomy Museum is a nonprofit exhibition space founded by Joanna Ebenstein, Tracy Hurley Martin and her sister, writer Tonya Hurley, in the Gowanus neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. The museum is an expansion of Ebenstein's long-running project, the Morbid Anatomy Library and blog and draws heavily on her experiences with the art groups Observatory and Proteus Gowanus.[1][2] The museum building includes a lecture and event space, a cafe and a store.[3] Ebenstein is a member of The Order of the Good Death.

The museum is located at 424a Third Avenue in Brooklyn, a former nightclub building the interior of which was re-modeled by architects Robert Kirkbride and Tony Cohn in 2014.[4] In Ebenstein's words, the new space is designed in order to give a home for a "regular lecture series and DIY intellectual salon that brings together artists, writers, curators and passionate amateurs dedicated to ... 'the things that fall through the cracks.'"[5]

The space focuses on forgotten or neglected histories through exhibitions, education and public programming.[6] Themes include nature, death and society, anatomy, medicine, arcane media, and curiosity and curiosities broadly considered. The artifacts featured in its rotating exhibitions are drawn from private collections and museums' storage spaces.[7][8][9]

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References

  1. ↑ Morbid Anatomy blog
  2. ↑ Furfarro, Danielle. "http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/37/26/24-morbid-anatomy-flea-market-2014-06-27-bk_37_26.html". The Brooklyn Paper. Brooklyn Paper. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  3. ↑ Strochlic, Nina (July 10, 2014). "Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors". Beaststyle. The Daily Beast. Retrieved August 24, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Interview: Robert Kirkbride on Design, Part I". Tack. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  5. ↑ Schuessler, Jennifer (June 26, 2014). "The Dark Side Gets Its Due". The New York Times (New York: Arthur Sulzberger Jr.).
  6. ↑ Thuras, Dylan. "The Morbid Anatomy Museum". Atlas Obscura. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  7. ↑ Nelson, Amy. "A Night at the Morbid Anatomy Museum". Animal New York. Retrieved 2014-08-27.
  8. ↑ Budick, Ariella. "Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum". FT.com. Financial Times. Retrieved 2014-08-22.
  9. ↑ Moye, David (August 24, 2014). "Morbid Anatomy Museum: You Know You're Dying To See It". Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc. Retrieved August 24, 2014.

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