The City Reliquary Museum
Storefront community museum preserving donated relics and ephemera of everyday city life.
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This guide to The City Reliquary Museum in Williamsburg starts in 2002, when a man named Dave Herman turned his ground-floor apartment windows into a homemade street-level gallery of city artifacts, complete with a button that played his own recorded voice as a tour guide. You'll hear how neighbors began leaving their own donations at the window, and how the collection outgrew Herman's living room and moved into a real museum a few years later. It closes with a look at what fills the shelves today.
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