The Coney Island History Project’s special exhibition for the 2019 season, opening on Memorial Day Weekend, Saturday, May 25th, is “Salvation by the Sea: Coney Island’s 19th Century Fresh Air Cure and Immigrant Aid Societies.” During the late 1800s and early 1900s Coney Island served as a place of salvation...
The Coney Island History Project’s special exhibition for the 2017 season, opening on Memorial Day Weekend, is “Neptune Revisited: Terra Cotta Relics from the Childs Building, Last of Coney Island’s Boardwalk Palaces.” A selection of original polychrome pieces from the Childs Restaurant Building will be on display along with archival...
You’re invited to preview the Coney Island History Project’s exhibition center season on Coney’s Opening Day. View historic artifacts, photographs, maps, ephemera and films of Coney Island’s colorful past and preview selections from upcoming exhibits. Among the new additions for Opening Day is “Skully,” a Giant Skull which came from...
Official Trailer: Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland, 1861-2008 On Saturday, February 28th, Charles Denson will present a slide talk on the Coney Island History Project’s mission and origins as part of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art’s Coney Island Symposium: An Intersection of Art and Identity. The exhibit...
Objects on loan from the Coney Island History Project William F. Mangels, the “Wizard of Eighth Street,” was a pioneering ride inventor and amusement manufacturer who was among the first inductees into the Coney Island History Project’s Hall of Fame. This fall, Mangels and his work is being celebrated with...
