Sanctuary Spaces Brooklyn
Sanctuary Spaces (SS) makes visible the remnants of a past as an archive of historical, cultural expression and serves as a vessel for resilient futures, in person and virtually.
Sanctuary Spaces serves as a gathering place, screening room, and gallery as it connects the dimensions of art, archive, culture, community, media and technology for inter-generational audiences.
Through an anthropological lens, Sanctuary Spaces honors communities, memories, stories, legacies, artifacts and narrative art.
Sanctuary Spaces is located in the Bedford Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, a historic African American community in New York City.
ON DISPLAY
Ongoing exhibits include “Moving Forward: Blood and other Memories, Meditations and Affirmations” and “In Obscurity— 80 years on the corner of Bedford and Lexington Avenues in photos.”
INTERACTIVE EXPERIENCES
The Memory Museum at Sanctuary Spaces, is an assemblage of artifacts mostly representing facets of life from the period between the late 1800’s through the mid-20th century. Artifacts include audio, visual/film, photography, home use items, documents, historic sheet music and a variety of cultural, historical and family memorabilia.
Forever Brooklyn, Black Brooklyn and Brooklyn 2 are interwoven experiences which highlight some of the historical and cultural legacies of the Bedford Stuyvesant and Crown Heights communities between the 1930’s and 1960’s.
Sanctuary Spaces is a vessel for emerging technologies and narrative futures
The Memory Museum @Sanctuary Spaces
