Sing Sing museum
Sing Sing Museum or the Sing Sing Prison Museum is a proposed museum in the original power house at the northern end of Sing Sing prison in New York state.[1] The museum will tell the story of incarceration in America and Sing Sing's part of that story.[2] Following a series of delays, programming and the initial exhibition is planned for 2025, the prison's bicentennial year.[3][4]
Historic Hudson River Towns, the agency developing the latest efforts to create the museum, has been working to redevelop the 15,000 foot (4,600 m) ground floor former power plant, which powered Old Sparky.[5] While plans for the museum date back to the early 200s, if not earlier, efforts began again in earnest in 2014–2015.[6] There are also discussions to use the original cell block, which survived a fire, to tell the prison's story.[7][8][9]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Larson, Christian (2021-12-18). "Sing Sing Museum Project Continues to Gain Momentum". River Journal Online. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ "Rooted in Reform: Navigating Carceral Stories in Museum Spaces". American Alliance of Museums. 2024-10-25. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ "Can This Prison Museum Tell the Full Story of Mass Incarceration?". nextcity.org. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Fitz-Gibbon, Jorge. "Schumer vows to aid (and abet) stalled Sing Sing museum". The Journal News. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Lindner, Elsbeth (2019-06-09). "New Sing Sing Prison Museum to Unlock the Past". River Journal Online. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Fitzgerald, Jim. "Sing Sing's power plant could become prison museum". The Journal News. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ McKinney, Michael P. "Sing Sing museum: New view of the 'big house'". The Journal News. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Hill, Michael (2020-03-29). "Going to prison: At Sing Sing, a museum going in down the hall from inmates". Temple Daily Telegram. Retrieved 2024-11-30.
- ^ Clement, Douglas (2016-04-16). "Where Berkowitz Did Time and Cagney Spent Time".
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