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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

Depiction of a battlefield

The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered

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Unity Democratic Club holding protest signs

People Making Power: Politics in Brooklyn

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Past Exhibitions

12 visual representations of items from CBH's collection
Centering Collections: Recent Work at CBH
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Memories Matter
Memories Matter
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Brooklyn Is... web header
Brooklyn Is...
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Banner with Student and judge looking at History Day Project
New York City History Day Showcase
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Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn
Trace/s: Family History Research and the Legacy of Slavery in Brooklyn
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Banner with Student and judge looking at History Day Project
New York City History Day Showcase
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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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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
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 2
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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It Happened in Brooklyn
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Brooklyn Utopias?
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Living and Learning: Chinese Immigration, Restriction, & Community in Brooklyn, 1850 to Present
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No Jheri Curls & No Drugs: A David Lee Photo Exhibition
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Brooklyn Redrawn
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Mother Goose in an Air-Ship: McLoughlin Bros. 19th Century Children's Books from the Liman Collection
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In Our Own Words: Portraits of Brooklyn's Vietnam Veterans
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Suspended Over Time: Brooklyn Bridge's 125th Anniversary
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Lost in Transition: South Brooklyn, Williamsburg, and Coney Island
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Reflections on Community Development: Stories from Bedford Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation
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Sacred Hearts: A Journey of Italian Catholics in the Borough of Churches
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The Secret Lives of Streets Exhibition Laboratory: Teen Organized Exhibit
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Up From Flames: Mapping the Recovery of Bushwick 1977-2007
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