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Press
Selected Television/Video
- Death Like You've Never Seen it Before, Tedx Talk, 2016
- Our Greatest Fear, Articulate, PBS, 2017
- Dead Mice Get Second "Life", National Geographic, 2014
- Morbid Anatomy Museum, New Learning Times, Columbia University
- Morbid Anatomy Museum opens in Gowanus, Channel 12 News, 2014
- Morbid Anatomy: Exploring the Art of Death: The Midnight Archive, 2012
- Fox News: Body Parts on Display at Morbid Anatomy Library: Bill Schulz and Dr. Michael M. Baden Pay a Visit to the Morbid Anatomy Library, 2011
- Newsweek Magazine: "Joanna Ebenstein gives a tour of Brooklyn's Morbid
Anatomy Library, and shows why looking at collections of body parts and
imagery, could help people deal with death, 2010
- Rocketboom Media: Featurette on Morbid Anatomy, 2010
- Toni on New York: Weird New York Tour of the Morbid Anatomy Library, 2009
Radio and Podcasts
- Interview with our founder Joanna Ebenstein on Last Pocast on the Left, 2018
- Interview with our founder Joanna Ebenstein on The Noir and Bizarre, 2018
- Morbid Anatomy on Off the Path, WSHU, 2018
- How we Remember: Death and Mourning in American Art and Culture Symposium
American Folk Art Museum, 2017
- Morbid Anatomist on Expanding Mind Podcast with Erik Davis, 2017
- Funerary Rituals Across Time And Culture, The Colin McEnroe Show, WNPR, 2017
- Women's Hour, BBC 4, 2016
- BBC Inside Science with Adam Rutherford, 2014
- NPR Morning Edition: New York Exhibitions Dance With Death Through Victorian Mourning Culture 2014
- Storycorps: For Morbid Anatomy Museum Founder, Spooky Things Are Life's Work, 2014
- To the Best of our Knowledge: The Museum of Death, 2014
- The Thing is... Podcast from The Wellcome Collection with our founder Joanna Ebenstein on The Anatomical Venus, 2014
- Cityscape: Demystifying Death, 2014
- PRI's The World
- BBC "Today" (2 hours, 55 minutes in)
- Dale Radio
- History Radio
- Science Friday
- Insectophila, Cityscape Radio Show, WFUV
Recorded Lectures
- Death Like You've Never Seen it Before, Tedx Talk, 2016
- Anatomical Venus Book Talk with Evan Michelson at The Strand, 2016
- The Thing Is... Morbid Anatomy, The Wellcome Collection, 2014
- Curious Collections and Exhibitions, Lecture, EAMHMS Conference
- Anatomical Venuses, Slashed Beauties, and Three Fetuses Dancing a Jig: An Illustrated Journey into the Curious World of Medical Museums, Dittrick Museum, 2011; Listen here
- To Every Man His Cabinet, Modern/Contemporary Art and the Curiosity Cabinet Radio at Seton Hall, 2011
Selected Articles/Slideshows
- US-Trend-Thema: Tod und Sterben - "Vergiss nicht, dass du sterben wirst, ZDF, 2018
- The Positive Death Movement Comes to Life, New York Times, 2018
- Outing Death, New York Times, 2017
- Remembering the Morbid Anatomy Museum, Haute Macabre, 2017
- Morbid Anatomy Museum Closes Its Doors, New York Times, 2016
- Gowanus' Morbid Anatomy Museum Closes, WNYC, 2016
- The Morbid Anatomy Museum Has Given Up the Ghost, Bedford + Bowery, 2016
- Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum Dies a Grisly Death, Broke-Ass Stuart, 2016
- Anne Rice Finds Inspiration Amid Taxidermied Animals, The New York Times, 2016
- Taxidermy at the Morbid Anatomy Museum, The Ministry of Curiosity Blog, 2016
- The Bride and Groom Are Kittens. At Death They Did Not Part, The New York Times, 2016
- The Twin Sisters Bonded by Their Death Obsession, Lenny Letter, 2016
- Not Dead Yet: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Explores Macabre Science in Gowanus, Brooklyn, The Architect's Newspaper, 2015
- Death becomes It: How the Morbid Anatomy Museum Slayed Brooklyn, The Guardian, 2015
- One Year In, Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum Still Celebrates Visitors' Curiosity, Metro NYC, 2015
- Above and Beyond: The Morbid Anatomy Flea Market, The New Yorker, 2015
- Meet the Lady Taxidermy Artists of Brooklyn, Brooklyn Magazine, 2015
- Taxidermy Classes: All Guts and a Little Gory, The Wall Street Journal, 2015
- New York City Museums, Ranked, The Awl, 2015
- Finding the Beauty of Death at Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, Vice Magazine, 2015
- Morbid Anatomy Museum’s Taxidermy Classes Offer a Slice of Life (and Death), The New York Times, 2015
- Where The Brooklyn Spirits Play: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Celebrates Its One-Year Anniversary, Park Slope Stoop, 2015
- New York Today: Stuffed, The New York Times, 2015
- Swords, Sleight of Hand and a Speaking Mummy, The New York Times, 2015
- Two-Faced Kitten and Cigar-Smoking Squirrels On View At Morbid Anatomy Museum, Gothamist, 2015
- 'People Loved Freaks, And They Still Do': A Bizarre Trip Through Time At Morbid Anatomy Museum, Huffington Post, 2015
- The Art of Mourning, at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum, Shock till you Drop, 2015
- The Dark Side Gets Its Due: The Morbid Anatomy Museum Opens in Brooklyn, The New York Times, 2014
- Flirting With the Dark Side: The Subject of Death Plays a Part in Popular Culture, The New York Times, 2014
- Exploring the Culture of Mourning: Death and Grief Influence New York Exhibitions, The New York Times, 2014
- The Accessories of Death, Hyperallergic, 2014
- Taxidermy, Superheroes, and a Polluted Canal Tour: Weird Things to Do in NYC, Conde Nast Traveler, 2014
- The Headless Horseman Variety Show, The New Yorker, 2014
- Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum, Financial Times, 2014
- It's Mourning in America, New York Times, 2014
- Summer Is Flying By. Plan Accordingly, The New York Times, 2014
- New York City’s Most Morbid Museum, BBC, 2014
- Brooklyn’s Museum of Death: Inside Morbid Anatomy’s House of Intriguing Horrors, The Daily Beast, 2014
- I See Dead People, The LA Review of Books, 2014
- Sights and Sounds Of The Morbid Anatomy Summer Flea Market, Brooklyn Magazine, 2014
- Morbid Anatomy Museum Opens in Brooklyn, Newsweek, 2014
- Besuch im Jenseits, Die Zeit, 2014
- The Morbid Anatomy Museum reopens, bringing lectures and mummified cat heads to Brooklyn, The Verge, 2014
- 56 Freaky Photos From Inside Brooklyn's Morbid Anatomy Museum, Gothamist, 2014
- New Morbid Anatomy Museum Opens in Brooklyn (Where Else?), Artnet, 2014
- New NYC Museum Explores Death, All Things Morbid, Time, 2014
- Coming Soon to Brooklyn: The Morbid Anatomy Museum, Mental Floss, 2014
- Victorian-era Taxidermist Became Master of Weird Art, The New York Post
- Dead and Beautiful: The Art of Taxidermy, The Daily Beast, 2014
- Walter Potter’s Wonderfully Twisted Vintage Taxidermy, Vanity Fair, 2014
- The Brooklyn Museum of Death, The Awl, 2014
- Fantastically Creepy Images and Tales From The Morbid Anatomy Anthology, Wired, 2014
- It’s Mourning in America, The New York Times, 2014
- Five Must-Visit Oddities Museums Around The World, Gothamist, 2014
- Death in the Afternoon, Then Drinks, The New York Times, 2014
- Gowanus Is Getting A “Museum of Morbid Anatomy, Brooklyn Magazine, 2014
- A Place Where Death and Beauty Intersect, Wall Street Journal, 2014
- Museum of 'Morbid Anatomy' to Open in Gowanus, DNA Info, 2013
- Kill time at death talks: Morbid Anatomy lecture series at Last Tuesday Society, The Hackney Citizen, 2013
- Advice to Researchers and Reanimating Dead Mice, The New York Time, 2013
- Brooklyn’s Freakiest Librarian Presides Over Creepy Curios at the Morbid Museum, The New York Post, 2013
- Demon Season, The Brooklyn Paper, 2012
- Wonderful Oddities from the Morbid Anatomy Library, The Village Voice, 2012
- Photo Gallery: Bizarre Gifts from the Morbid Anatomy Holiday Fair, Flavorwire, 2012
- Scary Christmas! A Visit to the Morbid Anatomy Library’s Holiday Fair, The Observer, 2012
- 'Morbid Anatomy Anthology': Brooklyn Art Group Seeks Funding For Curious New Book, The Huffington Post, 2012
- Seize the Day' at the Wellcome Collection, London City Nights, 2012
- The Crazy Cool of Emma Stone, Vogue UK, 2012
- Emma Stone gets Caught in Spider-Man's Web, Herald Scotland, 2012
- 7 Gross Wonders Across America, CNN, 2012
- A Healthy Mania for the Macabre, The Chronicle for Higher Education, 2012
- Beyond the Dollhouse: The Toy Butcher Shop, Los Angeles Times, 2012
- Dead Mouse Walking: New Yorkers Revive the Creepy Art of Taxidermy, The Atlantic, 2012
- Fire, Flood Threatens a Morbidity Emporium on Gowanus, New York Magazine, 2012
- At a Very Peculiar Museum, Supporters Gather to Celebrate All Things Morbid, Capital New York, 2012
- Star-studded Cast of Oddity Experts Gather to Save Morbid Anatomy Library, Brooklyn Paper, 2012
- A Dance for the Dead at Morbid Anatomy Library, Brooklyn Based, 2012
- Unusual Collectors: The Morbid Anatomy Library, Angel Orensanz Foundation, 2012
- Is This The Most Bizarre Art Project Ever?..., The Daily Mail, 2012
- Would You Buy or Make Dead Mouse Art?, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation News, 2012
- Des Souris (Mimi) et des Hommes (Cruels), Liberation.fr, 2012
- Death In The Closet, Toronto Standard, 2012
- Very Bad Things, Newsweek Magazine, 2010
- Ten "Cabinets of Curiosities" and Unique Collections from around the World, The Huffington Post, 2010
- Joanna Ebenstein Exhibition, The Warhol Foundation, 2010
- Morbid Anatomy: The Space Where Medicine and Art Intersects is Often ... Well, Weird. And Fascinating, The American Medical News Website of the American Medical Association, 2010
- Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World, Second Nature: International Journal of Creative Media, 2009
- Brooklyn Graphic Designer, Photographer Brings Oddities to Life in New Exhibit, New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2009
Interviews and Profiles
- Joanna Ebenstein on the Pleasures of Morbidity, The Creative Independent, 2016
- Joanna Ebenstein and Her Morbid Anatomy Museum, Mental Floss, 2014
- Death Becomes Her, Bust Magazine, 2014
- Death, Science, Sexology: Joanna Ebenstein of the Morbid Anatomy Museum: Interview with Mark Dery, Boing Boing, 2014
- Learning to Love Death: New Museum Takes a Walk on the Shadow Side, Collectors Weekly, 2014
- Q and A with Joanna Ebenstein, Founder of the Morbid Anatomy Library and Museum, by Elke Weesjes, United Academics, 2013
- Morbid Anatomy: Exploring the Art of Death: Midnight Archive Featurette on Morbid Anatomy, 2013
- Q and A: Joanna Ebenstein Discusses Death and History at the CDC Museum, The Burnaway, 2012
- Joanna Ebenstein's Morbid Obsession, Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2010
Print and Web
Reviews
Image: Spread from Anatomical Theatre: Depictions of the Body, Disease, and Death in Medical Museums of the Western World, Second Nature: International journal of creative media, Vol 1, No 1, 2009
