The Morbid Anatomy Library and Gift Shop — Attraction in New York

Wow. No words can describe how cheated I felt after coming to the Morbid Anatomy Museum. I blame it on myself for not reading the Yelp reviews prior to my visit. Instead, I wasted 1.5 hours of my life, coming to Brooklyn from Manhattan, only to spend 10 minutes of my life (which I would have rather spent staring at the wall) in this so called museum.

Now if you're still clamoring to come here and see what the fuss is about, the you can take the R Train down to 9th and walk a couple minutes to the Morbid Anatomy Museum. When approaching this spot, you'll realize that it definitely does not look like a museum. Instead, it appears to be half warehouse, half hipster coffee shop. Walk inside and you'll probably have the same reaction that I had once I arrived, confused and ready to be disappointed. The first floor of this museum is literally a hang out coffee shop. When I was there, there were around 3-4 other hipsters just hanging out and sipping on some coffee. Typical Brooklyn-ites right? Approach the register and he'll ask you to front $10 for admission to the museum. Shoot, for $10 I should have at least gotten a free coffee.

Once you make your way upstairs, you'll see what is utterly disappointing about this place. There is literally one living room sized area, and a "library" towards the back where you can mosey around and check out random trinkets. What appalls me the most is the fact that this place is called the Morbid Anatomy Museum, but there is nothing remotely morbid nor anatomy-esque to be seen. Instead you'll find old portraits scattered along the wall. Now, I don't consider myself a huge museum buff, but I can spend a good 4-5 hours at the MoMA or a whole day at the Met. Here at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, I spent a grand total of 10 minutes, hating myself for letting me be tricked into spending $10 and a subway ride.

Under no circumstances can I recommend coming to this place. If you want to see skeletons of animals, then just hop on the C Train and stop by Evolution in SoHo. It's free, larger, and hipster-free. Do not fall into this trap and get...

The space is on the second floor, take the elevator or the stairs up and follow the signs. I never visited the original location prior to visiting this location inside of Industry City so I can't compare.

It's a small space inside a room amongst other artist and creator studios in the renovated warehouse buildings of Industry City. If you are a fan of anything macabre, it's a neat place to visit with an interesting selection of library books you may peruse whilst visiting, but cannot remove from the space. There is also a small selection of gifts purchase. At this time there is a number of Krampus postcards and there will be a Krampus market coming up in a larger space nearby. Lectures and talks are sometimes hosted and to hear about them I was told to sign up for the newsletter. I'm glad this space exists as at times it can be difficult to find something so niche, even in NYC where you can find...

The only way to access the Anatomy library is through paid entrance fee for the museum. Lapin and I came here one Saturday as we found a Groupon discount and thought it would be a nice way to spend the day. We would been lucky to have spend more than 30 minutes at this museum. It was two small rooms [one is considered the exhibit room and the other is the library] that was filled with mostly photographs and here there hodge podge items. The most interesting thing was the persevered specimens but they weren't labelled. Honestly, this museum [if it should even be called that] was a waste of time and money. If you really wanted to read or see morbid anatomy, save yourselves the effort and time and just...