New York City (Brooklyn): City Reliquary (January 2020)



My spouse and I visited the City Reliquary on a Saturday afternoon in mid-January 2020. The museum is open Thursdays through Sundays (closed Mondays through Wednesdays) from 12:00 noon until 6:00 pm, although those hours seem slightly fluid because the museum attendant did not show up until 12:30 pm on the day that we visited. Admission costs $7 per adult. We spent about 30 minutes there. 

The diminutive museum began in 2002 as the owner’s apartment window display, but moved to its present storefront location on busy Metropolitan Avenue in Williamsburg a few years later. It occupies the street level of a row of businesses (shops, restaurants) with housing above it. The museum’s collection includes memorabilia from New York City and Brooklyn, as well as rotating temporary exhibit. The space is quite small, just three tiny rooms packed floor-to-ceiling with souvenirs and mementos. (We learned after our visit that the space also includes a garden, but no one mentioned it to us when we paid our entrance fee, and a door at the rear of the back room did not encourage us to continue our tour outside). A restroom is available. 

Unfortunately, we really did not really enjoy this museum; it was smaller than we had envisioned, and many of the objects displayed were also small with hard-to-read signs, plus some of the exhibits with moving parts (such as a movie and a booth that projected a film about the burlesque dancer Little Egypt were not even operational. We would not really recommend this attraction; save your time and money.








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