The City Reliquary

Williamsburg, Brooklyn

About the Museum• The museum collection displays thoughtfully

arranged artifacts of New York City’s rich history, which entice viewers to learn more about the five boroughs.

• Some of the highlights of the collection include architectural remnants of city buildings, Statue of Liberty memorabilia, a geological display of New York’s underground composition and a 1939 World’s Fair Exhibit.

• The City Reliquary also celebrates local character by displaying the unique findings of New York-based collectors.

Winter hours of operation are:

Saturday & Sunday 12:00 to 6:00 PM

Located at 370 Metropolitan Ave. (at Havemeyer & N 5th St.)

Williamsburg, Brooklyn NY

A community Museum• The City Reliquary has the distinction of

being a window museum. People in the community pass it daily on their way to and from the subway, the grocery, or the coffee shop, or they stumble across it when they're walking home from work via a different route. It is either an integrated part of their daily landscape, or a personal discovery. In either case, passersby are offered a kind of ownership that major institutions strive for in their public relations campaigns, but rarely achieve. We aim to be a humble but effective hub, of many sorts - historical, cultural, and social. We offer historical displays of modest ephemera - bits of bridges, old postcards, etc. We organize events - Collector's Night, Bike Fetish Day, September 11 Memorials, Bike Rides, Writing Contests. We've also started a community mini-garden movement in old bathtubs in front of our windows, and we broadcast a monthly radio show through a local internet station. We post neighborhood-related political information, and in general act as "the water cooler" of the neighborhood.

MISSION

• A central part of our mission is to plan and host public events, which provide neighbors and visitors with a place to meet, exchange ideas, and celebrate the diversity of our community.

What is a Reliquary?

• A reliquary (also referred to as a shrine) is a container for relics.

• These may be the physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures. The authenticity of any given relic is often a matter of debate.

What is a Relic?

• a surviving memorial of something past. • an object having interest by reason of its age or

its association with the past• a surviving trace of something• An object kept for its association, remembrance

with the past; a memento or souvenir.

Relics

What is a Manifesto?

• A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions. Manifestos are often political in nature.

• In art it is a public declaration or exposition in print of the theories and directions of a movement. (can be thought of as an exhibition: a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display)

Manifesto on clothes

Manifesto on tank:• “You Rock” on the front. • The back of the tank has the LovethisLife “Manifesto”: • LovethisLife . . . is about celebrating the moment and that we’re not

guaranteed or owed another day and how cool it is that what we hide can actually be the fuel towards our glory and that it’s not so bad being proven wrong. LovethisLife . . . is about welcoming the blind turn and the possibility that there’s no such thing as coincidence and that empathy is incredibly sexy and that it’s never too late to pick up a guitar or a paintbrush or to make an amend or to make a new friend. Love this life . . . could be about rekindling a past flame or igniting a new one or shape shifting from a dreamer to a doer or savoring the caress of a love long gone. LovethisLife . . . means whatever you want it to mean because LovethisLife . . . is a celebration of you and your path. LovethisLife . . . ‘cuz it could go at any second. You Rock.

Examples

• Can we brainstorm some ideas???