Where: Brooklyn
Historical Society
When: Jun 9, 2015
- May 29, 2016
BHS is
pleased to be opening an exhibition that explores one of Brooklyn’s oldest and
most extensive infrastructure projects: its sewer system. This exhibition tells
the story of the creation of the Brooklyn sewer system through a historical
look at four corners of Kings County: Flatlands, Bushwick, Coney Island and
Fort Greene. Visitors are invited to look beneath the surface into the
problems, challenges, and issues that each of these neighborhoods faced in the
creation of the sewer system, and the factors that made an integrated municipal
system for sewerage an absolute necessity. The exhibition was curated by a team
of teen curators who participated in BHS’s free afterschool museum studies
program known as Exhibition Laboratory, or Ex Lab.
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