NYC DEPT OF SANITATION & NYU
JAN 10 & JAN 13: LOADED OUT: MAKING A MUSEUM // 136 W 20th St 2nd Fl 6pm
Lecture, exhibition tour, and status report on the DSNY museum-in-the-making by Robin Nagle, Ph.D., DSNY Anthropologist-in-Residence, and Haidy Geismar, Ph.D., Professor of Anthropology, NYU...Nagle and Geismar will recount how the Department of Street Cleaning and its successor, the Department of Sanitation, transformed New York from a public health minefield to a safe and sanitary home for millions. They will also describe their recent efforts to create a permanent NYC Department of Sanitation Museum. -NYU