Coney Island History Project Opening Weekend

Join us on Memorial Day Weekend at the Coney Island History Project for the opening of our 2010 season and our featured exhibit "Luna Park Revisited." The exhibit details the original Luna Park's history from opening day in 1903 to the dramatic fire that destroyed it forty years later. Rare archival photos, family snapshots, souvenir postcards and fun ephemera from Luna Park will be on display. A touch screen monitor will provide access to dozens more images.

History Project Director Charles Denson says, "The original Luna Park was a visual delight, a 'grotesquely delightful' storybook fantasyland filled with hundreds of towers, domes, spires, and minarets, all decorated with thousands of electric lights. It was known as the 'Electric Eden,' a city 'sketched in flame.' More than a century later, Thompson & Dundy's iconic park has inspired the creation of Coney Island's new Luna Park. The History Project is eagerly anticipating the May 29th grand opening of our new next-door neighbor!