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Public history exhibitions and projects at the Center for Brooklyn History reveal Brooklyn’s complex, multilayered history and address critical issues that continue to shape the borough today.

Public programming series, educational programs, and collections initiatives are key components of our projects, and additional online resources allow visitors beyond the Greater New York City area to explore these stories.

Current Exhibitions

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Past Exhibitions

Brooklyn Miniaturists
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Brooklyn Resists: Online Exhibition Introduction
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The Librarian in Congress: The Life and Work of Major Owens
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Waterfront
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An Opening: A Sound and Art Installation by Kameelah Janan Rasheed
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Taking Care of Brooklyn: Stories of Sickness and Health
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A Queer Look at Brooklyn
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A Tree Grows in Brooklyn: An Exploration of Our Plant Life and Green Spaces
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Food Fit for Kings County: The Culinary History of Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Connections 2019 Student Projects
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The Photographs of Builder Levy: Humanity in the Streets
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On the (Queer) Waterfront: The Factories, Freaks, Sailors, & Sex Workers of Brooklyn
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The Works of Walt Whitman, BPL Exhibition
The Works of Walt Whitman
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Brooklyn: A New Home, A New Life
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Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
Empire Skate: The Birthplace of Roller Disco
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Brooklyn Abolitionists/In Pursuit of Freedom
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The Business of Brooklyn
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The Means of a Ready Escape: Brooklyn's Prospect Park
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Photograph of Mr. Racioppo by Anna Delany
Larry Racioppo: A Retrospective
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Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn's Waterfront
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Brooklyn Connections: An Annual Student Research Project Exhibition
Brooklyn Connections: Annual Student Research Project Exhibition
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Until Everyone Has it Made: Jackie Robinson's Legacy
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Beyond the Boardwalk: The Other Side of Coney Island
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Wise Eyes: Still Woke
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Badges of Honor: Brooklyn’s Protectors
Badges of Honor: Brooklyn’s Protectors
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Truman Capote’s Brooklyn: The Lost Photographs of David Attie
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Enacting Change: Women’s Activism in Brooklyn
Enacting Change: Women’s Activism in Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Connections Exhibition
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Prospect Park 1
150 Years of Prospect Park
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Sewers: What's Up Down There?
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Portraits of Hunger in NYC
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Personal Correspondents: Photography and Letter Writing in Civil War Brooklyn
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Changing America: The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863 and the March on Washington, 1963
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Brooklyn Americans: Hockey's Forgotten Promise
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Gaining Access: The New York City Disability Rights Movement
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Mapping Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Remembered: The Watercolors of James Ryder Van Brunt
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Wonder: First Encounters with Green-Wood
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Full Steam Ahead: 200 Years of Ferries in Brooklyn
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We the People: The Citizens of NYCHA in Photos + Words
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She said, She said: Art and inspiration in the work of Nell Painter and Lucille Fornasieri Gold
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Documenting Sandy
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Sweet Industries: Refining What We Know
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Inventing Brooklyn: People, Places, Progress
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Say Cheese! Portraits to Pics
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Home Base: Memories of the Brooklyn Dodgers at Ebbets Field
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Painting Brooklyn: Stories of Immigration and Survival
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Artist and Artifact: Re|Visioning Brooklyn's Past
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Tivoli: A Place We Call Home
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Pages of the Past: The Breukelen Adventures of Jasper Danckaerts
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