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Sing Sing Museum Hosts Walking Tours, Storytelling, Dockside Visit
River Journal North
Robert Brum, October 2025
While construction progresses on the Sing Sing Prison Museum, the museum’s fall programs are continuing, including walking tours, a storytelling series exploring the prison system and a dockside visit from a historic vessel... READ MORE
While construction progresses on the Sing Sing Prison Museum, the museum’s fall programs are continuing, including walking tours, a storytelling series exploring the prison system and a dockside visit from a historic vessel... READ MORE
Sing Sing Prison Museum coming to Ossining
News12 Westchester
Jade Nash, February 2025
A special wall breaking ceremony was held on Monday to kick off construction Sing Sing Prison Museum in Ossining... READ MORE
A special wall breaking ceremony was held on Monday to kick off construction Sing Sing Prison Museum in Ossining... READ MORE
Sing Sing Museum to Open in October in Ossining
River Journal North
Robert Brum, February 2025
A museum whose mission extends beyond the history of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility to exploring incarceration in America today is expected to open this October in the village where the prison was founded 200 years ago... READ MORE
A museum whose mission extends beyond the history of the Sing Sing Correctional Facility to exploring incarceration in America today is expected to open this October in the village where the prison was founded 200 years ago... READ MORE
Sing Sing Prison Museum Swings Into Life In Ossining in Former Opera House
Rockland County Business Journal
Tina Traster, February 2025
Long Planned Mission To Create Sing Sing Museum Will Focus On Contemporary Issues In The Penal System. A project three decades in the making symbolically birthed this week in Ossining with the exuberant swing of sledgehammers smashing through a wall at 65 Central Avenue. Welcome to the future home of the Sing Sing Prison Museum... READ MORE
Long Planned Mission To Create Sing Sing Museum Will Focus On Contemporary Issues In The Penal System. A project three decades in the making symbolically birthed this week in Ossining with the exuberant swing of sledgehammers smashing through a wall at 65 Central Avenue. Welcome to the future home of the Sing Sing Prison Museum... READ MORE
Sing Sing Prison Museum Receives $2.5 Million Grant from Lilly Endowment
River Journal North
January 2025
Sing Sing Prison Museum has received a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support Religion at Sing Sing Prison: A 200 Year Perspective. The activities supported by Lilly Endowment will build on Sing Sing Prison Museum’s recent accomplishments and stimulate the museum’s growth as an innovative organization devoted to engaging audiences in profound questions about justice in a democratic society... READ MORE
Sing Sing Prison Museum has received a $2.5 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative. The grant will support Religion at Sing Sing Prison: A 200 Year Perspective. The activities supported by Lilly Endowment will build on Sing Sing Prison Museum’s recent accomplishments and stimulate the museum’s growth as an innovative organization devoted to engaging audiences in profound questions about justice in a democratic society... READ MORE
Sing Sing Museum Project Continues to Gain Momentum
River Journal North
Christian Larson, December 2021
On the South end of Ossining's Louis Engel Riverfront Park, a fence separates a playground from the grounds of Sing Sing Prison. Many visitors are unaware the prison is there, even though a disused guard tower sits among the swing sets. The Sing Sing Prison Museum, slated to open to the public on the institution's 200th anniversary in 2025, hopes to shine s spotlight on its legacy and the future of incarceration... READ MORE
On the South end of Ossining's Louis Engel Riverfront Park, a fence separates a playground from the grounds of Sing Sing Prison. Many visitors are unaware the prison is there, even though a disused guard tower sits among the swing sets. The Sing Sing Prison Museum, slated to open to the public on the institution's 200th anniversary in 2025, hopes to shine s spotlight on its legacy and the future of incarceration... READ MORE
Sing Sing Prison Acquires a New Story
The Inside Press
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Jennifer Sabin Poux, December 2019
In 1929, the New York Yankees played an exhibition game in an unusual location. It wasn’t a major league stadium or even a famous park. And Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and their teammates weren’t playing a team known for its athletic prowess... READ MORE |
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Where Doing Time Means Using It
WAG Magazine
Georgette Gouveia, December 2019
We often speak of being incarcerated as “doing time.” But the subject of prisons and prison reform is also both timely and timeless... READ MORE
We often speak of being incarcerated as “doing time.” But the subject of prisons and prison reform is also both timely and timeless... READ MORE
Outside Prison Walls: Waiting Spinning, Flying
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Vincent Tullo for The New York Times
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Dance Project Sheds Light on Loved Ones of Incarcerated Inmates
Westchester County Business Journal
Jennifer Berry, September 2019
Yet to open, but already carving out a space at the intersection of civic engagement and culture, the Sing Sing Prison Museum will present a provocative dance performance that raises questions about justice and injustice... READ MORE
Yet to open, but already carving out a space at the intersection of civic engagement and culture, the Sing Sing Prison Museum will present a provocative dance performance that raises questions about justice and injustice... READ MORE
New Sing Sing Prison Museum to Unlock the Past
River Journal
Elspeth Lindner, June 2019
Museums aren't what they used to be. Once reverential homes for dusty objects in glass cases, they've now become places to reconsider dark chapters from the past in a modern light - like at New York's Tenement Museum and the 9/11 Memorial. The same will soon be true in Ossining, with the arrival of the Sing Sing Prison Museum (SSPM)... READ MORE
Museums aren't what they used to be. Once reverential homes for dusty objects in glass cases, they've now become places to reconsider dark chapters from the past in a modern light - like at New York's Tenement Museum and the 9/11 Memorial. The same will soon be true in Ossining, with the arrival of the Sing Sing Prison Museum (SSPM)... READ MORE
Sing Sing Museum: New View of the 'Big House'
USA Today Network
Douglas P. Clement, April 2016
OSSINING – A proposed Sing Sing prison museum has a long, colorful past to mine. It was here that “Old Sparky," the first electric chair, was used. It was here where baseball great Babe Ruth supposedly blasted his longest home run during an exhibition game against a team of inmates... READ MORE
OSSINING – A proposed Sing Sing prison museum has a long, colorful past to mine. It was here that “Old Sparky," the first electric chair, was used. It was here where baseball great Babe Ruth supposedly blasted his longest home run during an exhibition game against a team of inmates... READ MORE
Where Berkowitz Did Time and Cagney Spent Time
The New York TimesDouglas P. Clement, April 2016
There’s something magical about Sing Sing, the maximum-security prison that sprawls over 75 acres on a bank of the Hudson River where it widens north of the Tappan Zee Bridge — if the word magical can be used to describe a place that in the late 19th century pioneered the use of the electric chair and that today houses about 1,600 inmates, many of... READ MORE |
Photo by Adam Ace Wolpinsky
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Proposed Sing Sing Prison Museum Moving Forward
River JournalNancy Gold, March 2016
Historic Hudson River Towns, the lead agency on the development of a prison museum and educational center at Sing Sing Correctional Facility here, announced today that the project is moving forward with the hiring of three prominent museum consulting firms. Public historian Brent D. Glass, director emeritus of the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, has been serving as consulting advisor to the Sing Sing Prison Museum Project since September, 2015... READ MORE |
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Push for Sing Sing Prison Museum
Fox 5 New York
November 2016
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Inside the walls of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, there are stories to tell. More than 600 inmates were put to death in the electric chair here, famous and infamous residents like mobster Lucky Luciano and "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz served time here. There were violent uprisings, and the prison, on the picturesque banks of the Hudson River in Ossining, played starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters... READ MORE
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - Inside the walls of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, there are stories to tell. More than 600 inmates were put to death in the electric chair here, famous and infamous residents like mobster Lucky Luciano and "Son of Sam" serial killer David Berkowitz served time here. There were violent uprisings, and the prison, on the picturesque banks of the Hudson River in Ossining, played starring roles in Hollywood blockbusters... READ MORE
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Associated PressA museum just beyond the maximum-security prison’s watch towers is being planned with a unique feature: a 300-foot-long (91 meters) corridor connecting to the roofless ruins of the original 19th century cell block inside the walls. Museum-goers would stand at the site of the first cramped cells at this prison “up the river” from New York City and learn about life in the Big House.
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WNYW Fox 5 NYInterim Director Brent D. Glass sits down with Fox 5 NY to talk about the future of the Sing Sing Prison Museum and an update on what's happening now. On site interviews with Hudson Link for Higher Education in Prison Executive Director Sean Pica, and a gardening initiative led by Douglas DeCandia.
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WNYW Fox 5 NYThe Sing Sing Prison Museum and Bethany Arts Community proudly presented the East Coast premiere of The Wait Room, an outdoor dance program created by Flyaway Productions of San Francisco to honor the lives of women whose loved ones are incarcerated.
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Richard French LiveSing Sing is one of the most famous prisons in the country. The terms "big house," and "up the river" were both coined at the maximum-security prison in Ossining. Now there's a plan to capitalize on that fame, and the prison's incredible history, to build a museum there. Historic Hudson River Towns is working with the New York State Department of corrections and Ossining to do just that.
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