Sanctuary Spaces Brooklyn
Sanctuary Spaces and Memory Museum is a gathering place, screening room, museum archive and virtual platform that connects the dimensions of historic preservation, culture, community, media and technology for inter-generational audiences, honoring memories, stories, legacies, artifacts and narrative art and is a vessel for resilient futures, in person and virtually.
Sanctuary Spaces is a not-for-profit, fiscally sponsored public service located in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, a historic African American community in New York City.
ON DISPLAY
Ongoing exhibits include “Moving Forward: Blood and other Memories, Meditations and Affirmations” and “In Obscurity— 80 years on the corner of Bedford and Lexington Avenues in photos.”
INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES
The Memory Museum and Archives at Sanctuary Spaces, is an assemblage of artifacts mostly representing facets of life from the period between the late 1800’s through the mid-20th century. Artifacts include audio, visual/film, photography, home use items, documents, historic sheet music and a variety of cultural, historical and family memorabilia.
Forever Brooklyn Memory Tours are interwoven experiences which highlight some of the historical and cultural legacies of the Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities between the 1930’s and 1970’s.
Black Brooklyn Memories-An AR Experience
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Learn more at info@sanctuaryspacesbrooklyn.org
Sanctuary Spaces is a vessel for emerging technologies and narrative futures
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The Memory Museum and Archives @Sanctuary Spaces
Affiliations and Partners
The African American Association of Museums and The African American Civil Rights Network. Recipient of their joint National Park Service Grant for
“Black Brooklyn 1937 - 1968”.
The Museum Association of New York
Museum Hue
American Alliance of Museums
National Trust For Historic Preservation
Archivist Round Table of Metropolitan New York
Society of American Archivists
The Laundromat Project
Municipal Art Society
Data Visualization Society
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