After visiting the Morbid Anatomy Library, part of Brooklyn’s interdisciplinary Proteus Gowanus Gallery, you are likely to feel haunted. I personally woke with my brow damp and my heart hammering, the ...

There’s a new Morbid Anatomy Museum, and, yes, it’s in Brooklyn, reports the New York Times. The museum, which could have raided some of the borough’s many taxidermy-chic restaurants to fill out its ...

The Transom’s path to Proteus Gowanus, where we were headed to investigate an unusual holiday fair, took us straight over the canal. The sight of the mint-green water —looking even more ominous than ...

An exhibit that celebrates man’s fascination with death is poised to rise from the grave. A bevy of silver-tongued scholars, scribes, raconteurs, and anecdotalists will tell the story of the lost ...

Our favorite quirky library dedicated to the arcane, the bizarre and the morbid is outgrowing its space in Gowanus and hoping to expand. The Morbid Anatomy Library may be known for its collection of ...

For the last decade, Liz McGarrity has been pulling out the eyes of Victorian-era dolls and mounting them in pairs in glass domes. Now, at 65 years old, they are among the many items she sells at the ...

Joanna Ebenstein, founder of the Morbid Anatomy Library, poses with taxidermied mice: one dressed as Hamlet (left), the other as the pope. Angel Chevrestt When she was a little girl, Joanna Ebenstein ...

We are all familiar with the Coney Island of hot dogs, roller coasters, and side shows. But what's been lost is the Coney Island of large-scale, actor-peopled, immersive spectacles, sometimes ...

After a two-and-a-half year run of bringing the art of macabre to the masses, Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum has closed its doors. Museum board member and co-founder Tonya Hurley confirmed the news ...

The fetuses are suspended in yellow liquid. In their eternally curled sleep, they are the color and shape of uncooked shrimp. Alongside them in the display case are magenta and cobalt jellyfish, as ...