MUSEUM OF BRONX HISTORY

Join The Bronx County Historical Society and Latin Horror on Halloween for the grand opening of “George A. Romero: Stay Scared!,” a retrospective on George A. Romero’s Bronx roots and expansive artistic vision encompassing horror, mystery, fantasy, and science fiction. The opening will be hosted at the Museum of Bronx History, but the full exhibit will be on display across three locations in The Bronx:

At the Museum of Bronx History (3266 Bainbridge Ave.), the exhibit will situate Romero, and the specific zombies he helped popularize, in The Bronx of the 1950s.

At Edgar Allan Poe Cottage (2640 Grand Concourse), the exhibit will explore Romero’s literary influences, including Poe, and the wide scope of his work across various genres.

At Bronx Music Hall (438 E 163rd St.), the exhibit will display some of the “sounds of the dead,” highlighting soundtracks and sound effects in Romero’s films.

Now extended through January 31, 2026, Uptown Rumble: Heavy Music in The Bronx explores the rich and little-known history of Bronx bands and musicians playing in the heavier registers of rock music including hard rock, heavy metal, thrash metal, death metal, hardcore, and more, from the 1960s through the early 2000s.

Thanks to our host sites and partners: The New York Hardcore Chronicles, Bowery Electric, From The Bronx, Liebman’s, The Bronx Beer Hall, Bronx Music Hall, Bronx Music Heritage Center, WFUV, and The Fox and King.

Made possible by New York State Senator Gustavo Rivera and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Seis del Sur’s HISTORIAS: The Stories Behind the Images is an interactive multimedia exhibition that explores the collective’s early documentary photographs of The Bronx as well as those of friends and colleagues. Their images—many unseen and stretching back decades—reshape the borough’s narrative and personalize it with anecdotes about the images on display at The Bronx County Historical Society’s Museum of Bronx History.

The work of Seis del Sur founding members Joe Conzo, Jr., Ricky Flores, Ángel Franco, David González, Edwin Pagán and Francisco Molina Reyes II covers a range of social, cultural, and political issues affecting Bronxites over the last four decades as it informed our worldviews. In recent years they have dug deep into their archives, finding images for the show that have never been exhibited before.

The welcome addition of Carmen Mojica and Abigail Montes to the mix continues and expands the collective’s commitment to documenting and preserving our community and personal histories.

A Bronx Writers’ History, curated by STAFF 161 (TED), highlights the stories and ongoing creativity of Bronx pioneers of writing (“graffiti”) from the late 1960s and early 1970s. The exhibit also features street art by high school students from Academy for Scholarship and Entrepreneurship and High School for Contemporary Arts.

Explore recovered histories of African-American and multiracial residents of the Allerton Coops, located at 2700 Bronx Park East, a hub of working-class radicalism and avant-garde Yiddish and African-American cultures during the 1930s–1960s. Exhibit opens on August 12, 2023, 2–6pm, and will be open for an extended time at the Museum of Bronx History, open Saturdays, 10am–4pm, and Sundays, 1–5pm, and by appointment.

Join The Bronx County Historical Society for With Our Hands/Con Nuestras Manos: Arte de Tierra y Mar/Spring Love, which celebrates the Earth Mother ATABEI's creativity and the inspirational love of Puerto Rican women. The exhibit highlights Puerto Rican women’s multifaceted creative efforts to maintain their own lives and histories—both in The Bronx and elsewhere—through political organizing, sculpting, ancestral remembrance, painting, photography, poetry, and more.

This exhibition celebrates the rich history of the southernmost neighborhood in The Bronx, Mott Haven.

April 11, 2019–October 6, 2019

Before it transplanted to Hollywood, the movie industry in the U.S. was an East Coast fixture, and early twentieth-century studios included the Biograph and Edison Studios in The Bronx. “BXFlicks” explores this pioneering moviemaking role of the borough, the characterization of The Bronx on film through the decades, and the history of Bronx movie theaters built to showcase this modern innovation in mass entertainment.

Utilizing its photographic and research collections, The Bronx County Historical Society has created an exhibition highlighting the many peoples of Latin American origin that call this borough home. These incredibly diverse peoples comprise the largest and fastest-growing demographic grouping in The Bronx today. Yet there is historical evidence of the presence of some of these peoples here dating back centuries.

October 12, 2017–April 8, 2018

Explore the “sleeping places” of those who have come before us. Some burial grounds are long since vanished; others survive into the twenty-first century. Learn what burial secrets your neighborhood may hold as well as burial practices and mourning rituals of Victorians, graveside symbolism, and the famous who still dwell among us.

April 5, 2017–October 8, 2017

2017 marks 100 years since the United States entered World War I and began its emergence onto the international stage that would ultimately transform the nation into a world power. On the cusp of a modern age, Americans enjoyed jazz and ragtime, strove for women’s suffrage, and shattered the country’s insularity by joining the Allies. View life in The Bronx a century ago and its “War to End All Wars.”

April 14, 2016–October 9, 2016

The exhibition was based on the Ferris-Doherty Collection, one of the largest and most historically important collections of The Bronx County Historical Society. It consists of photographs, documents, furnishings, textiles, and personal memorabilia dating back over 300 years. These diverse examples of material culture shine a light not only on the personal lives of the many generations in this family but also on the history and heritage of the settlement of the Town of Westchester since its seventeenth-century foundation, as well as of The Bronx.

April 8–October 4, 2015

2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the end of the U.S. Civil War as well as the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, one of the last victims of the conflict. The Bronx contributed a number of infantry and cavalry units to the Union war effort under the New York State volunteer system. Learn about these men and the families and communities they left behind.

October 22, 2014–October 4, 2015

Constructed almost 170 years ago, High Bridge remains an engineering triumph and the oldest surviving bridge in New York City. After extensive restoration, High Bridge reopened to the public in July 2015 as an essential link in the city’s expanding waterfront greenway system. This exhibit explores the rich history of High Bridge.

October 22, 2014–April 5, 2015

A loan exhibition from the Queens Historical Society and the MTA Bridge and Tunnels Archives celebrating the 75th anniversary of the Bronx-Whitestone Bridge.

April 9, 2014–October 19, 2014

2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the creation of
Bronx County, the last county created in the State of New York. The year was dedicated by Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and there were many events and new initiatives that helped mark and celebrate this milestone.

September–October 2014

Photograph exhibition installed in the Hall Gallery of the Museum of Bronx History for Hispanic Heritage Month and showcased through Open House New York Weekend, October 11–12, 2014.