Collector’s Night 2016

Join us at the New York City Fire Museum Friday, June 10 at 6:30 PM to celebrate the odd obsessions of everyday New Yorkers!

Admission: $10 general/$5 for members of The City Reliquary or New York City Fire Museum. Tix available through our Artful.ly page!

Spittoons used by congregants of the Eldridge Street Synagogue, ca. 1900. Museum at Eldridge Street.

All collectors will display and discuss their collections throughout the evening. This year, for the first time in Reliquary history, guest museum will also share parts of their collections! Look out for displays from Museum at Eldridge Street, Museum of Interesting Things, Interference Archive, Reanimation Library, and MoRUS (Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space)!!

We’ll also enjoy talks by three guest speakers:

Stanley B. Burns, MD of The Burns Archive, an extensive photographic collection of the forgotten, unseen, and disquieting moments in history
Austin Wright of The Museum of Democracy, the world’s largest collection of historical and political campaign memorabilia
Howard Warren, retired Trinity School science teacher, who will discuss the dismantling of Jim Crow through the integration of professional baseball

#CollectorsNight2016

“Talked to Death” artifact, late 1890s. Museum of Democracy.

Confirmed collections include:

Vintage Judaica from the Museum at Eldridge Street
Archival 16mm cartoons by Tommy Stathes of Cartoons on Film
Vintage greeting cards from LuLu LoLo
Taxidermy/entomology by Morbid Anatomy Museum artist-in-residence and taxidermy teacher Amber Maykut of Hoardaculture
Social movements ephemera from Interference Archive
Vintage Manhattan maps and photos from Dan Lenchner
Rubber stamps from Taliah Lempert
Vintage 1940s Coney Island chalkware prize figurines from Marion Duckworth Smith of the historic Lent-Riker-Smith Homestead
WWI-related Real Photo Postcards from Chris Engel
Artifacts from THNK 1994 (Tonya Harding-Nancy Kerrigan Museum)
Clothesline Pulley and 3-Year Belly Button collections from Steve Gerberich
Color barrier baseball artifacts from guest speaker Howard Warren
Relics from the demolished Conmar Zipper company from Phil Buehler
Pocket protectors from Inspector Collector, Harley Spiller, who’ll also sell his book of artist-mutilated currency

And countless others! Don’t miss this fun, interesting, and oh-so-Reliquary event!

Jackie Robinson figurines, 1947 (left) and late 20th century (right). From the collection of Howard Warren.

Thanks to our sponsors at Brooklyn Brewery and Two Boots Pizza!

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