Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop

VISIT THE MORBID ANATOMY LIBRARY AND GIFTSHOP
Visit the Morbid Anatomy Library and Morbid Anatomy Gift Shop at Brooklyn’s vibrant Industry City!

Visiting hours are is 12pm to 5pm every Saturday (Note: we are closed for holidays Nov 27, Dec 25 and Jan 1).

The library is FREE OF CHARGE, no appointment necessary, and makes available hundreds of books and artifacts for your edification and pleasure. The giftshop features signed books, used and antique books, t-shirts, tote bags, and sundry artifacts from around the world.

The address is 254 36th Street (between 3rd and 4th Ave), Building 2, Room B421 (map here).

We are located on the 4th floor of building 2; for entry, meet our volunteer docents every half hour in front of the elevator next to Ends Meat Butcher Shop.

Industry City is just 20 minutes from Manhattan, located on the Brooklyn waterfront. The main entrance is located at 220 36th Street, Brooklyn, NY 11232.

For the safety of all, and in accordance with guidelines for local cultural institutions, we ask visitors to please be vaccinated.

ABOUT THE LIBRARY

Founded in 2008 by our creative director Joanna Ebenstein, The Morbid Anatomy Library is a research library and collection making available hundreds of rare books, photographs, artworks, pieces of ephemera, and artifacts from around the world that span the topics of art and death, death and culture, the history of medicine, medical museums, anatomical art, "sexology," collectors and collecting, art and science, taxidermy, arcane media, esoterica, world religions, Latin America studies, history or museum, curiosity and curiosities broadly considered, and much more.

For teachers who would like to bring classes, or those interested in becoming a volunteer docent, email by clicking here.

It’s first incarnation was as a project in residence at Proteus Gowanus, it could also be visited at The Morbid Anatomy Museum (2014 - 2016) and Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery (2018 - 2019). You can peruse some of our holdings here.

You can find out more about The Morbid Anatomy Library on News 12 New Jersey as well as in Bklyner, Vogue UK, CNN, Newsweek, Time Out New York, The Huffington Post, Fox News, Newsweek, Rocketboom Media, Create Culture, and WPIX's Toni On! New York.