Vigil
What does it sound like when a chorus of female voices sing softly at the bedside of someone who is ill or dying? It sounds like an ancient art, which is exactly what it is. Bedside singing choirs now exist throughout the United States, offering solace to those who are on the threshold of life. Artist Leigh Davis has created a new site specific sound installation for Green-Wood’s Historic Chapel that brings this beautiful music into its sacred space. Visitors are encouraged to sit or move through the chapel at their own leisure. The work offers a way to explore the power of loss and memory through song, emphasizing the beauty and peace one might find in the universal experience of death. Vigil is presented as part of Reimagining Tradition, an exhibition developed by Open Source Gallery.
(Sold Out) Death: A Graveside Companion
This day-long symposium is dedicated to the intersections of art and death to celebrate the publication of Death: A Graveside Companion, edited and curated by Morbid Anatomy creator, Joanna Ebenstein, and featuring largely unseen artworks from The Richard Harris death collection. Presenters will include cultural critic, Mark Dery; medical historian, Michael Sappol; Evan Michelson of Obscura Antiques and the TV series Oddities; hair artist and art historian, Karen Bachmann; filmmaker, Eva Aridjis; photographer, Shannon Taggart; Bruce Goldfarb of Baltimore's Office of the Chief Medical Examiner; medical illustrator, Marie Dauenheimer; Morbid Anatomy's Joanna Ebenstein and Laetitia Barbier; and more. Talks, screenings, and show-and-tells will span Edgar Allen Poe and the beautiful corpse, the allure of Victorian hair art, death in Mexico, The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death, spiritualism, medical models, and the history of the guillotine.
(Sold Out) Spirited Stroll
A perennial favorite! Get into the autumnal mood and enjoy a cool, crisp day exploring Green-Wood’s beautiful fall foliage. Historian Jeff Richman will lead this popular tour filled with tales of murder, mayhem, spirits, and the utterly bizarre. Visit the graves of The Wizard of Oz (actor, Frank Morgan), George Washington’s favorite dentist, the somewhat shady originator of Spiritualism, and many more. You’ll even get to tour Green-Wood’s Catacombs, usually closed to the public.
Historic Trolley Tours
Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesExperience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guides to hear fascinating stories of Green-Wood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn, and much more.
(Sold Out) Twilight Tour
There are few places more atmospheric than a cemetery at dusk - and Green-Wood is top notch when it comes to beauty and atmosphere. Arm yourself with a flashlight to explore the cemetery's stunning landscape as the sun fades over the horizon. The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.
Twilight Tour
There are few places more atmospheric than a cemetery at dusk - and Green-Wood is top notch when it comes to beauty and atmosphere. Arm yourself with a flashlight to explore the cemetery's stunning landscape as the sun fades over the horizon. The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.
Historic Trolley Tours
Green-Wood Cemetery 500 25th Street, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesExperience the most magnificent and historic 478 acres in New York City. Join our expert tour guides to hear fascinating stories of Green-Wood’s permanent residents, see breathtaking views of Manhattan, tread where George Washington and his troops fought the Battle of Brooklyn, and much more.
Spirited Stroll
A perennial favorite! Get into the autumnal mood and enjoy a cool, crisp day exploring Green-Wood’s beautiful fall foliage. Historian Jeff Richman will lead this popular tour filled with tales of murder, mayhem, spirits, and the utterly bizarre. Visit the graves of The Wizard of Oz (actor, Frank Morgan), George Washington’s favorite dentist, the somewhat shady originator of Spiritualism, and many more. You’ll even get to tour Green-Wood’s Catacombs, usually closed to the public.
Twilight Tour
There are few places more atmospheric than a cemetery at dusk - and Green-Wood is top notch when it comes to beauty and atmosphere. Arm yourself with a flashlight to explore the cemetery's stunning landscape as the sun fades over the horizon. The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.
Come In: The Entrance Experience with Matthew Urbanski
Matthew Urbanski, a principal in the firm of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), is the lead landscape architect of Brooklyn Bridge Park, among other distinguished projects worldwide. Urbanski brings his extensive design knowledge to re-think Green-Wood's entrance - the Come In project - an undertaking currently in the planning phase. Urbanski will discuss the concepts and challenges of working at Green-Wood and other historic sites, as well as a wide range of additional innovative work by MVVA. The Come In project is inspired by the restoration of Green-Wood's Weir Greenhouse and poses the question, "With the Weir Greenhouse directly across the street from Green-Wood's grand Gothic archway, how can the landscape serve to connect the two and add meaning to the entrance experience?"
Twilight Tour
There are few places more atmospheric than a cemetery at dusk - and Green-Wood is top notch when it comes to beauty and atmosphere. Arm yourself with a flashlight to explore the cemetery's stunning landscape as the sun fades over the horizon. The tours ends with a visit to the catacombs, which are normally closed to the public.
Photography’s Pioneers
A year after Green-Wood was founded in 1838, Louis Daguerre introduced the world to his latest invention, photography. Join Jeff Richman, Green-Wood's historian, on a first-ever tour of the pioneers of photography who are now permanent residents of the cemetery. You will discover a fascinating world of innovators and inventors, including Francois Gouraud, the agent Daguerre sent to America to introduce his revolutionary creation; John Draper whose gravestone incorrectly states that he was the first person to photograph a human face in America and his son Henry, who pioneered photographs of the moon; Edward Anthony, the largest publisher (with his brother Henry) of Civil War images; and Alexander Becker, the man who invented a machine that allowed people to travel the world in 3D from the comfort of their parlors; and many more.
(Sold Out) Dead Distillers Trolley Tour
Green-Wood is teaming up with our friends at Kings County Distillery to delve into the storied past of distilling in Brooklyn. The afternoon kicks off with a trolley tour of the cemetery’s “permanent residents” with whiskey connections, including the one and only casualty of the Brooklyn Whiskey Wars of the late 1860s and early 1870s. Afterward, the trolley will head to Kings County Distillery in the Brooklyn Navy Yard where visitors will see first-hand how whiskey is made and enjoy a tasting of four delectable varieties.
Green-Wood’s public programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature, as well as the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
