Coronavirus Update
While the Center for Brooklyn History is closed, please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic. During our closure, join us for virtual public programs, follow us on social media, and use our many online research resources. We look forward to seeing you when we reopen in 2021.
Coronavirus Update
While the Center for Brooklyn History is closed, please visit our Coronavirus Update for the latest information on our response to the pandemic. During our closure, join us for virtual public programs, follow us on social media, and use our many online research resources. We look forward to seeing you when we reopen in 2021.
Support current and upcoming programs, projects and exhibitions at CBH.
Learn more about supporting our award-winning programs, public history projects and exhibitions. Donors to these major initiatives receive prominent recognition, special access to project-related programming and events, and much more.
Brooklyn is currently home to more Muslim houses of worship than any other borough in New York City, and the vibrant Muslim population in Brooklyn continues to grow. This public history project amplifies the stories of Muslim Brooklynites and contextualizes them in the broader histories of all Brooklynites. Learn more about the project here.
Taking Care of Brooklyn, opening at CBH on Pierrepont Street is an exhibition about public health and understandings of disease, and also so much more. It reveals the unique ways that residents experienced and understood health and disease in the dense, diverse, growing, and ever-changing place that is Brooklyn. Visitors will leave CBH with an expanded understanding of the meaning of “sickness” and “health,” both in the past and today. Read more about Taking Care of Brooklyn.
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