The Brooklyn Historical Society (BHS) will open its second location, Brooklyn Historical Society DUMBO, in the newly renovated Empire Stores complex on Friday May 19.

BHS DUMBO’s inaugural exhibition, Shifting Perspectives: Photographs of Brooklyn’s Waterfront, will focus on Brooklyn’s waterfront through a collection of modern and contemporary photographs. The exhibit features the work of twenty-five photographers, including Berenice Abbott, Rudy Burckhardt, Bruce Davidson, Chester Higgins, and Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao. In December 2017, the major, long-term exhibition, Waterfront, will explore the interwoven stories of workers, artists, industries, activists, innovators, families, neighborhoods, and ecosystems to tell the global and local history of Brooklyn’s waterfront.

On the occasion of its 150th anniversary four years ago, BHS set out to reimagine the meaning of its mission to connect Brooklyn’s past to its present. Since then, the institution has undergone considerable programmatic growth through exhibitions, education programs, and public evening programs at its Pierrepont St. location in Brooklyn Heights.

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In addition to the inaugural exhibition at BHS DUMBO, in coming months BHS will host two related public programs at its Pierrepont St. location, part of the robust series of weekly affordable evening programs that have become a signature of BHS. The programs connected to the new DUMBO site highlight the queer history of Brooklyn’s working waterfront (June 8), and the many artists and writers who have taken inspiration from the water’s edge over the years, including author Jennifer Egan, whose forthcoming novel, Manhattan Beach, was researched in BHS’s Othmer Library (June 21).

BHS DUMBO’s normal hours will be Monday – Friday, 12 pm – 6 pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10 am – 7 pm. “Summer Fridays” during which BHS DUMBO stays open until 9 pm on summer Friday nights, begin on June 30 and continue through September 1. Finally, on Saturdays from May 20th through August 19, BHS DUMBO will offer drop-in family programs from 11 am – 3 pm.