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Coney Island Museum
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Neighborhood: Coney Island
1208 Surf Ave
(between 12th St & Henderson Walk)
Brooklyn, NY 11224
(718) 372-5159
1208 Surf Ave
(between 12th St & Henderson Walk)
Brooklyn, NY 11224
(718) 372-5159
- Good for Kids:
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6 reviews for Coney Island Museum
Luckily it's only $1.00 for admission, but the most you're going to get out of it is a big ass industrial fan to cool you off from the summer heat that's waiting for you inside.
Basically it's a big room with old paraphernalia lining the walls. Not saying you shouldn't check it out if you're in coney island, just don't expect too much :)
99 cents bought me entry into a rundown attic filled with creepy old decrepit junk that is still haunting me. Oh, and to a projector movie that made me feel like I was either tripping or belonged in a mental insertion.
To round out my expedience at the place Rob Zombie movies are made of- I visited the scarily disgusting bathroom.... nuff said.
Sorry to say, this place either needs (1) some massive funding for real artifacts & historical preservation, (2) an extreme home 'museum' makeover, or (3) an army of Clorox wielding hazmat-suited cleaners ..in order for it to become any sort of attraction worth visiting.
This museum was almost a waste of 99 cents. It was dirty and hot as hell (no ac, no fan, no open window on a day where it was 95 outside).
However, you do get to see a little piece of history and that is a a movie of Thomas Edison electrocuting an elephant trying to prove that his ac electricity was way better than dc. I read about this in roadside America as something weird to see and since I was there...why not.
Entry fee to this museum is 99 cents, which is not quite worth it for the two small rickety rooms of gimcracks on show, but is certainly a bargain for a line-less and moderately clean bathroom that you are only allowed to use if you buy a ticket.
I'm not saying that the stuff on exhibition isn't cool, only that it's kind of what you would expect to see in a touristy little shop that would not charge admission. I went to Coney Island on a hot weekend day in the summer, where it's always so crowded that finding a bathroom is a huge production. After stopping in some random stores to beg for bathroom use (as a girl, I've never had trouble getting permission for this sort of thing, but the owner of the furniture liquidator didn't seem to care about my needs), my friend and I stumbled on this museum. While I waited for her to get out of the bathroom, I took a tour of the place--that's how small it is.
Anyway, because no one goes there, it was a nice respite from the packs of flesh down on the street.
for old coney island memorabilia for only .99 cents, this museum is great. its small and run down, but that only adds to the atmosphere. they have original rides and carousel horses from the 1930s to 1960s and you can watch an elephant get electrocuted...good was to spend 20 minutes... I'd say you can do it in 10 minutes too. anything more than .99 cents and i
Can't beat 99 cents for admission. You'll spend more on skeeball in 2 minutes. Not much to look at (you'll be done in 10 minutes, a little longer than a couple more rounds of skeeball) but apparently they have some live entertainment/speakers sometimes. It's old looking, dusty, dark with only a big old fan (which ironically blends in perfectly) and a penny flip-motion dealie that shows an elephant being electrocuted (machine and execution were invented by Edison; how's that for self-promotion). For couch potatoes that would rather see it on TV then take 30 seconds to walk around the 2 rooms, there is a flatscreen tv/dvd showing for your enjoyment.