This spring, there’s a new pop-up exhibit at Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery—and I’ll be volunteering as a docent! The Morbid Anatomy collection will be installed in Green-Wood’s Fort Hamilton Gatehouse, with an exhibition called “The Power of Images: Life, Death, and Rebirth” on the lower level and a library in the building’s attic, with books on the intersection of art and medicine, death and culture. The exhibit will be open from 12:00-5:00pm on weekends, now through June, and is free and open to the public. So far, I’m scheduled to be there on 4/15, 4/21, and 5/6, and maybe there a few other weekends as well. Come visit me!
What is Morbid Anatomy, you ask? Well, if you’re from the Brooklyn area, you may remember that there used to be a quaint little museum in Gowanus that closed down last year. It housed a varied collection along the lines of a Victorian cabinet of curiosities, as well as an extensive library and an event space for authors, lecturers, and workshops. It closed its doors last year, but it didn’t go away for good! Its collections are curated by Morbid Anatomy’s founder Joanna Ebenstein and head librarian/program director Laetitia Barbier. The current exhibition contains a mix of macabre paintings, strange specimens, and funerary ephemera. I’m so excited to see my favorite death-centered museum brought back to life!
Do you have any questions about the exhibit? Have you visited already, or are you planning to? Let me know in the comments!