ADMISSION: 99 CENTS CHEAP
The Museum is open Saturdays and Sundays, 12PM-5PM.

Climbing the staircase to the second floor of our historic building at 1208 Surf Avenue (near West 12th Street) brings you to a small but fascinating museum of Coney Island memorabilia. The view from the windows overlooks landmark rides like the Cyclone Rollercoaster, the Wonder Wheel and the Parachute Jump. The museum itself is full of antiques and fun relics of old rides. A visit is certainly worth the modest admission price of 99 cents.

The museum is open on Saturdays and Sundays, year round, from noon to 5pm. Visiting hours may be expanded during the summer season.

The Coney Island Museum is the only museum in the world dedicated to interpreting and preserving the history of Coney Island. Our collection is continually growing and a walk around the gallery will give you a sense of the importance of this place to the nation and the world.

There are several good reasons to pay a visit to The Coney Island Museum:

IT'S A TOURIST CENTER
People or families spending a day at the beach need a clean bathroom, quality souvenirs and a friendly, knowledgeable person to answer questions about the neighborhood. We can help you with those things!


IT'S FULL OF FUN STUFF TO LOOK AT
Currently on display you can see: Daniel Blake's frenetic Dreamland in Motion! The Boardwalk Rolling Chair! Funhouse Distortion Mirrors! Cases and cases of great antique souvenirs! If you or your out of town friends are new to Brooklyn and/or amusement park history why not come and look at vintage bumping cars instead of just read about them? Why not show your perplexed youngsters???

IT'S A PLACE TO HEAR A LECTURE OR SEE A FILM
During the summer season the museum offers several programs like ASK THE EXPERTS, a Sunday afternoon series featuring Coney Island historians, and the CONEY ISLAND FILM SOCIETY on Saturday Evenings. There are also occasional SWAP MEETS for collectors and WALKING TOURS available for groups of 20 or more. Sign up for our email list and know in advance about all shows.

IT'S A COOL PLACE TO RENT FOR A PRIVATE PARTY
Believe it or not people have actually gotten married in the Coney Island Museum! Did you know that Spike Lee rented the place for two weeks as an actor holding area when he filmed HE GOT GAME in the neighborhood? Denzel Washington was there! We have also been rented for rock videos and fashion shoots by the likes of Herb Ritts! Please call for a price quote when you plan your next party or special event.

"ASK THE EXPERTS" LECTURE SERIES- 2010 Schedule coming soon
Sundays at 4:00PM at the Coney Island Museum throughout the summer! $5 General Public, Free for Coney Island USA Members.

2009 Archive
May 31 - Municipal Art Society, ImagineConey
June 7 - Steve and Amanda Zeitlin, The Art of the Sideshow Carnival Pitchman
June 14 - Dave Herman, The City Reliquary
June 21 - Day After Mermaid Parade (No Lecture)
June 28 - Dick Zigun, The State of Coney Island
July 5 - Michael Chemers, Smokescreen: How Coney Island Reinvented Itself to Survive Left-Wing Activists, Right-Wing Demagogues, and Big Tobacco
July 12 - Zoe Beloff, The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Their Circle
July 19 - Bob Liff, It Ain’t Been the Same Since Prohibition: My Time with the Coney Island Chamber of Commerce
July 26 - Reverend Billy and Savitri D
August 2 - Marci Reaven, A Conversation about Place Matters
August 9 - Michael Schwartz, Ghosts on Fire: An Afternoon of Sex, Stickball, Mrs Stahl's Knishes, the Cyclone and the Sea, short stories, poems and colorful characters
August 16 - Panel Discussion, Why Small Museums Matter
August 23 - Uncle Monsterface
August 30 Elizabeth Bradley, Knickerbocker: Behind the Myth of New York
September 13 - D.B. Denholtz, Masterpieces of Sideshow Photography: From Daguerreotype to Snapshot (1852-1987)