Past Events have included:
- Show opening: THE POP-UP MUSEUM of the Gowanus Canal
- Dr. SeussLove. No wait—Dr. StrangeSeuss
- Occult Bloodlines: Sex with Fairies, the Celtic Faith, and the Nephilim
- Dissection and Drawing Workshop with Real Anatomical Specimens
- Carbon Dust Drawing Workshop, Featuring Real Anatomical Specimens
- Selling the Dead: Anatomy as Business in the Dutch Golden Age
- Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop
- Natural Perfume Making Workshop
- Found Art Jewelry Workshop
- PERFORMANCE: Buried Alive! A Matchbox Theatre
- Spectral Findings / Larger Objects
- Found: New evidence of phallic monuments in Peru by the civilization of Llhuros
- Anthropomorphic Insect Shadowbox Workshop
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- The Moon and Its Closest Associates
- Observatory 3-Year Anniversary Fundraiser & LUNATION closing party
- Parasites: A User’s Guide - *IN MANHATTAN* at the Cornelia Street Cafe
- LUNATION: Art on the Moon Group Show Opening Party
- CLASS: Dissection as Studio Practice
- Vanitas Drawing Class with Classically Trained Artist Lado Pochkhua
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- Gabba Gabba Hey! Ramones Night at Observatory
- Para-Academia #7: A Crossing Without Borders Part 2 of 2: Death in the Thought of Jacques Derrida
- UFOs, Ghosts, Monsters and the Afterlife: “UFO Hunters”’ Bill Birnes on the Supernatural
- Moon Magick Ritual Workshop
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- The Search for Granny-Dump Mountain
- The Pornographic Arcades Project
- Photographing the Dead: The History of Postmortem Photography from The Burns Collection and Archive
- Para-Academia #6: I Are Cyborg: Cyberstuff, Design, and the Great Body Remix
- Grand Guignol Variety Show at The Coney Island Museum
- The Missing Dimension: A Cultural History of 3D Images - Anaglyphs, Stereographs, View-Masters, Holograms, and Flaming Arrows Coming Right at You!
- Hard-on My Sleeve: Absurdist-Prosthetic Cabaret
- 2011 Observatory Holiday Fair
- “Oddities” Marathon and Season Launch Party
- Anthropomorphic Chick Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- Winter Solstice Ritual Celebration with Green Witch Robin Rose Bennett
- The Magic of Magic Squares
- Exhibition Opening: the ephemera: An exhibition by James Walsh
- Class: Mummification
- Zombies Identified - (Re)Considering the Monster #2
- Cocktail Alchemy with Julianne Zaleta (Back by popular demand
- The Grand Guignol: Parisian Theatre of Fear and Terror 1897-1962
- Class: Learn Stop Motion Animation
- Absinthe and Other Liquors of Fin de Siècle Paris
- Para-Academia #5: A Crossing Without Borders
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven: Back by Popular Demand.
- The Occult in Modern Art 101
- “No Computer Is An Island”
- Tarot Practicum: How to Read Any Deck Without a Book
- Moonshot Magazine’s “Secret Issue” Reading and Release Party
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- Solitary vice? Sex and dissection in Georgian London
- Born of the Floating World: A Brief Exploration of the Japanese Graphic Narrative
- SUSPICIOUS ZOOLOGY Book Launch
- Class: Mummification
- The Empire of Death: Spectacular Ossuaries and Relics in the 16th and 17th Centuries
- Blake Leyh of “Treme” and “The Wire”
- A Dead Animal Man
- From the Magnificent to the Macabre: Send-Offs for the Dead
- Manly P. Hall and The Secret Teachings of All Ages
- Halloween and Day of the Dead Party
- Freaks and Pornography: Victorian Popular Anatomy Museums, Sex and the Unusual Body
- ATTACK OF THE MUTANT THEREMIN with Kip Rosser
- Bizarro Fiction #2
- Anima, Animus, Animate: Exploring Masculine and Feminine Archetypes Through the Tarot
- La Loteria: Exhibition Opening Party
- Para-Academia #4: Complicitous Continuums: The Horrors of the Cosmicist Earth
- Plant Medicine: An Initiation into an Alchemist’s Art
- Helen Gillet
- The Making of a 19th Century Spectacle
- World of Kraftwerk: A Journey In Music
- Erotic Death in Victorian Art and Fashion
- FIELD TRIP: A Day of Brains in Jars, Old Libraries, and Underground Crypts in New Haven, Connecticut
- SCREENING: “Theatrum Mundi” Production of Carl Orff’s “Carmina Burana”
- Sirens & Society: Postmodern Mermaidia
- Inaugural Event of the New Atlantis 2020 Series with Special Musical Guest Andy J. Forest
- Class: Mummification
- Shrinking and Other Acts of Sabotage
- Living Dolls: The Guinness Collection of Mechanical Musical Instruments and Automata at the Morris Museum
- Class: Mummification:
- From Baphomet to Marlene Dietrich: Traversing the Boundless - Modes of Transgression and Transcending Duality
- Launch Party for the new web video series “The Midnight Archives: Tales From the Observatory”
- WHERE’S AHAB? a three-part study of transcendental fury
- Class: Learn Stop Motion Animation
- Class: PSNY Para-Academia Series #3: Nabokov, Coincidence and Otherwordliness
- Bohemian Occult Subculture in Britain’s 1890s: How Artists, Actors, and Writers Made the Golden Dawn
- Bizarro Fiction #1: Reading It, Understanding It, Writing It
- Under Glass: A Victorian Obsession
- The Kabbalistic Mirror of Genesis with artist-occultist David Chaim Smith
- Cocktail Alchemy with Julianne Zaleta
- Class: Post-Apocalyptic Arts & Crafts Survival No. 3: Wasteless Notations: Bookmaking With Used and Salvaged Office Supplies
- The Corrigan Family Oddments
- Portrait of a Dime Museum: The Niagra Falls Museum (1827-1999)
- Class: Mummification
- Dead Cities / Cities of the Dead
- The Public School NY Para-Academia Series #2: Gnostic Vertigo in Bataille and Lovecraft
- Home-Made Visual Albums
- Class: Post-Apocalyptic Arts & Crafts Workshop No. 4: Twisted Diorama Making
- Oh, River
- ALCHEMICALLY YOURS
- Knowing Your Ass from Your Elbow; or, Thinking About Skin Grafts
- Art and Alchemy:
- Class: Effigy Dolls
- Class: The Public School New York Para-Academia & Theory Fiction Series, Session 1
- The Witch’s Dungeon
- Class: Post-Apocalyptic Arts & Crafts Workshop No. 1: DIY Post-Apocalyptic Puppetmaking
- Occult New York Walking Tour
- Notes on an Urban Kill-Floor: Poems for Detroit
- A Virtual Tour of the Anatomical Collections of the University of Groningen
- Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals
- Class: Post-Apocalyptic Arts & Crafts Workshop No. 2: Darn It! Pragmatic and Expressive Sweater-Darning
- Pub(l)ic Identities: Reading Medical Representations of Sex:
- Class: Mummification
- A Speculative Genealogy of Metaphortean Research
- The Hyrtl Simulacrum
- Proteus
- Wonder Shows: Performing Science, Magic, and Religion in America
- Future Death: The Dead Human Body as Biomass
- Kitten Tea Parties, Auto Icons, and Habitat Groups: A Brief History of Taxidermy
- Ill-Gotten Brains: The Grisly History of Sourcing Bodies for Anatomical Learning
- Mediumship: In History and Today
- An Introduction to Mexican Cinema: Times of Decadence Installment 1
- Kingdom Under Glass: A Tale of Obsession, Adventure, and One Man’s Quest to Preserve the World’s Great Animals
- The “Oculus Imaginationis” of Ted Serios
- Exhibition Opening: John Burroughs at Slabsides
- An Introduction to Mexican Cinema: Times of Decadence Installment 3
- Real and Sham Natural History
- WONDERLAND’S CUTEST COUPLE: Alice and The Hatter: 2 Weird + 2 Be = 4Real
- Blood Work: Medicine and Murder in the Scientific Revolutio
- Hey, Where’s My Robot Girlfriend? An Exploration of Sexual Robotics, Teledildonics and Carnal Technology
- Atlases of Pleasure: The Ideal Landscapes & Fleshscapes of Dr. Robert Latou Dickinson
- John Burroughs on Film
- PROSPECT 60WANU5
- The Secret History of the Ouija Board
- A: Head on B: Body: The Real Life Dr. Frankenstein
- Perceptions of Motion
- Observatory’s 2nd Anniversary Valentine Phantasia Fundraising Party
- Anthropomorphic Mouse Taxidermy Class with Susan Jeiven
- Getting Naked: The Story of the Aquatic Ape Theory
- Forever Voyaging to Cythera
- Dreams, Nightmares and Hallucinations: A Celebration of The Dream Sequence
- FIELD TRIP: Guided Tour and Behind the Scenes Viewing of The Murtogh D. Guinness Automaton Collection at the Morris Museum in Morristown, New Jersey
- The Morton Skull Collection: Race, Science, and America’s Unburied Dead
- “La Santa Muerte” (”Saint Death”) Film Screening
- The TORSO Corporation: Broadcasting From the Alternative Present
- Occult New York
- A Brief Introduction to Haitian Voodoo
- Burlesque: Exotic Dancers of the 1950s and 60s
- The Book of Symbols
- Body Voyaging or, A Short Excursion Through the History of Fantastic Anatomical and Physiological Journeys Through the Body
- A Voyage to the Arctic
- Exhibition Opening: RETROFUTUROLOGY
- The Arctic Plants of New York City
- The Music of Emily Lacy
- Oddities” Marathon and Party
- Haunted Houses
- The Vast Santanic Conspiracy: Is St. Nick the Tool of a Plot too Monstrous to Mention?
- Occult New York
- Come and See: The Amsterdam Anatomical Collection Dissected:
- Screening: Hans Richter’s “Dreams That Money Can Buy” and “Ghosts Before Breakfast”
- Portraits of the Mind: Visualizing the Brain from Antiquity to the 21st Century
- Kagero: Japanese Gypsy Rock and Cultural Confusion
- The Grotesque in Art
- Helen Gillet
- Beyond the Sphere: Getting Lost with Dante
- Albert Grass Adventures of a Dreamer
- The Dark Side of Medicine
- The Marvelous Hairy Girls and the Limits of Femininity
- A Lecture, Screening and Fund Raiser for the “What Took You So Long” Film Crew
- Parallel Botany: The Branch of Flora Linnaeus Overlooked
- Exhibition: “Paradiso Contrapasso” Opening Reception
- Swallowed and Saved: The Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection and the Art it Has Inspired
- The Lampshade: A Holocaust Detective Story from Buchenwald to New Orleans
- Tall Tales of the Totem Pole: The Intercultural Biography of an Icon
- The Desire to Conceal and Reveal the Narrative in Art
- “Parasites: A User’s Guide”
- Behind the Glass Curtain – The Lives and Work of Leopold and Rudolf Blaschk
- Seducing Spiders
- Bards and Bourbon
- Dia de Muertos (Day of the Dead) Party
- Behind the Scenes and Under the Skin” or, “The Body at Blythe”
- Occult New York
- The Cube of Space: Container of Creation
- BEYOND BIBA: A PORTRAIT OF BARBARA HULANICKI Film Screening
- Masterpiece Comics
- Nomad Codes: Adventures in Modern Esoterica with Erik Davis
- (Un)Natural Histories: Animation and Automata Influenced by Nature, Science, and Technology
- Nature as Miniaturist: An Illustrated Survey of the Bogs of Southern New Jersey
- The Pornographic Arcades Project: Adaptation, Automation, and the Evolution of Times Square (1965-1975)
- Surrealism and Women Artists with Prof. Susan Aberth
- Consider the Werewolf: A History and Defense of a Necessary Monster
- Get Animated! The History, Future and Techniques of Animation
- Angels, Animals and Cyborgs: Visions of Human Enhancement
- Manga Kamishibai: The Art of Japanese Paper Theater, 1930 to 1960
- Hermaphrodites: Sex Undetermined
- Exquisite Bodies: or the Curious and Grotesque History of the Anatomical Model
- It’s Scotland Jim, But Not As We Know it: The W.D. Trotter Anatomy Museum - A Brief History
- Documenting the Invisible: Spiritualism, Lily Dale, and Talking to the Dead
- A Screening of the Animated Feature “Sita Sings the Blues” Hosted by Animator/Director Nina Paley
- Lecture and Screening by Bob Camp, Co-creator of Ren and Stimpy
- Radical Detectives: Forensic Photography and the Aesthetics of Aftermath in Contemporary Art
- Life, Secrets, Sex of an Animator
- Suspicious Anatomy
- Morbid Ink: Field Notes on the Human Memorial Tattoo
- Echoes of Mutilation: The Saints and their Afterlives:
- Screening and Chat with Animator Debra Solomon, Co-Creator of Lizzie McGuire
- Diableries, Medical Oddities and Ghosts in Amazing Victorian 3D!
- A Night with Animator John Dilworth
- Wicked Plants
- “The Beautiful Experience”
- The Secret Museum Exhibition Closing Party
- EXHIBITION OPENING: A Love Craft
- Electricity and the Body in Public Performance
- Herbal Alchemy
- The Anatomical Unconscious: X-Ray Specs, Visible Women, and the Eros of the Unseen
- Cutegasm! or The Commodification of Cartoons, Cupcakes, Penguins and Prostitots
- Torino:Margolis Performance
- Three Unique Medical Museums in Northern Italy
- Experimenting with Death
- The Saddest Object in the World
- Helen Gille
- Morbid Magicians, Demented Doctors, and Sinister Swamis
- Come to Your Senses
- Plant Pressing Workshop
- The Clay Animation of Jimmy Picker
- The Birth of the Music Industry and Observatory’s 1st Birthday Party
- Chasing the Syncretic Tradition
- Curiosity and Horror: Transgenics, Cybernetics, and Evolution
- A History of Taxidermy
- The Secret Museum
- The Saddest Object in the World
- A Rogue’s Approach to Stuffing It: Taxidermy in Contemporary Pop, Art and Sub-Cultures
- A Brief History of Automata
- A History of Taxidermy: Art, Science and Bad Taste
- Charles Wilson Peale and the Birth of the American Museum
- The Congress for Curious People
- The Silken Web: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946
- Museums, Monsters and the Moral Imagination
- Hart Island: An American Cemetery
- Still Life: Adventures in Taxidermy
- Women in Freemasonry
- Modern Ruins, Urban Archaeology, and the Post-Industrial Sublime
- Insects, Naturalists, Dioramas and World Travels
- The True and Horrid Story of Burke and Hare
- The Pamphlet for Artists, Writers, and Others
- Insect Safari with Catherine Chalmers
- “Imaging the Diorama”
- In the Henry Darger Archive: From Rebellious Transsexual Child Slaves in Oz to Korean and Vietnamese Orphans
- Shamanic Ritual Workshop with Itzhak Beery
- ROCATERRANIA
- EXHIBITION OPENING: ENTOMOLOGIA
- The Death & Resurrection Show A Magic Show by Acep Hale
- The Sun and the Moon: The Incredible Moon Hoax of the 1930s
- For the Next 7 Generations: A Shamanic Film Screening
- I Could Stand to See You Die A Closing Party for All Sorts of Remedies
- EXHIBITION OPENING: VISION QUEST A Group Show of Neo-Shamanic Art
- Satan and Santa: Separated by Birth?
- Art as Magic and the Cold Hard Facts of Life
- Constance Kent and the “Great Crime of 1860”
- Coincident Monsters:
- Exquisite Corpses
- The Dissection Room Photo: A Lost Genre of Medical Portraiture
- Occult America
- All Sorts of Remedies Opening Party
- LIVING in SIM
- Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius
- The Culture of Curiosity
- The Secret Show
- Ruskin’s Black Cloud
- Day of the Dead Party
- Borders & Bridges: Guided Tours of Human Wonder
- Humans Riding on the Backs of Dinosaurs
- Alchemy, Art, and the Realm of the Imaginary
- An Evening of Video and Performance on Clouds
- The Coney Island Amateur Psychoanalytic Society and Their Circle
- An Iconography of the Flesh: The Bizarre Afterlife of Eva Peron
- Layered Orders: Crowley’s Thoth Deck and the Tarot
- Screening: Antique Science
- Bodies Embalmed By Us Never Turn Black!
- Cuerpo Presente
- An Iconography of the Industrial Body: Fritz Kahn
- Screening: Hysteria Themed 3-D Double Feature
- Flower Pressing Workshop
- Mirror Horror
- The Devil Broke My Arm
- Italian Wax Anatomical Models in European Collections
- Reveries of Sleeping Beauty: Slumber and Death in Anatomical Museums, Fairground Shows, and Art
- Confronting Mortality with Art and Science: Book Release and Film Screening