On Wednesday, November 3, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City Contributor Emily Nonko for our webinar with Brent Glass and Sean Pica, executive director and board member of Sing Sing Prison Museum, as they discuss the process of opening a prison museum with integrity. In 2022 the preview center museum is slated to open at the currently operational Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, just about an hour north of New York City. With plans to open the full museum in 2025, the museum board is gathering stories from the formerly incarcerated, family members, and prison staff in an attempt to situate Sing Sing’s history within the larger-scale conversations around mass incarceration and the future of criminal justice. The proposed museum will include two main structures — one outside state prison property, the other within its walls. The museum will feature multimedia as well as hands-on exhibits; these include a history of the first women’s prison that existed on th
On Wednesday, November 3, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City Contributor Emily Nonko for our webinar with Brent Glass and Sean Pica, executive director and board member of Sing Sing Prison Museum, as they discuss the process of opening a prison museum with integrity. In 2022 the preview center museum is slated to open at the currently operational Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York, just about an hour north of New York City. With plans to open the full museum in 2025, the museum board is gathering stories from the formerly incarcerated, family members, and prison staff in an attempt to situate Sing Sing’s history within the larger-scale conversations around mass incarceration and the future of criminal justice. The proposed museum will include two main structures — one outside state prison property, the other within its walls. The museum will feature multimedia as well as hands-on exhibits; these include a history of the first women’s prison that existed on th
On Wednesday, November 3, at 1 p.m. Eastern, join Next City Contributor Emily Nonko for our webinar with Brent Glass and Sean Pica, executive director and board member of Sing Sing Prison Museum, as they discuss the process of opening a prison museum with integrity.