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Brooklyn’s Micro Museum
First off, this place is not a museum of small objects or a collection of galleries filled with old PCs. A storefront community arts center amid a dense array of boutique shopping on Smith Street, the Micro Museum has been renting out rehearsal space and booking an ever-changing roster of local installations and performance art since 1986.
AC DC Window - A Solar Powered Installation at The Micro Museum
The museum also has an impressive archive of microfilm and video art and an eclectic collection of rare symphonic recordings on 78 rpm donated from the Met that can be spun on request. The gallery/museum is basically one long room full of quirky art installations. Exhibits have run the gamut from two telephones on opposite arms of a couch. Upon taking a phone off the hook, the other begins ringing and only stops when both are hung up or off the hook. There’s also a knowledge chair, just press buttons on the side of the chair and it reads idioms to you.
This living art center yearly hosts over 600 artistic residents ranging from award winning actors, dancers, musicians, clowns, belly dancers, and media artists. The latest currently on display is AC/DC Window, a solar powered kinetic sculpture up on the second floor. Museum is open most days 10 a.m. – 10 p.m..
From Manhattan, take the F & G Trains to Bergen Street Station (between Dean and Pacific Streets) and walk roughly 1 block up Smith Street to #123. Admission is a shocking $2!
photo courtesy of Micro Museum
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