Morbid Anatomy Library & Giftshop

VISIT THE MORBID ANATOMY LIBRARY AND GIFT SHOP

Please note: The Library will be be closed for a move from March 30 through May 10, 2024

The Morbid Anatomy Library and Morbid Anatomy Gift Shop is located at Brooklyn’s vibrant Industry City.

The library is open most Saturdays from 12-5 pm. See our Events section to find out opening dates.

Admission is FREE OF CHARGE, no appointment necessary.

The Library houses 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 (on the 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.

Accessibility Note: Industry City offers a courtesy shuttle bus service to/from the 36th Street subway from 7am – 11am and 2pm – 8PM. A real time GPS tracking system for the shuttle can be viewed via the IC Shuttle tracker.

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.