
LOCATION USA
ATTRACTION TYPE Museum/gallery
OPENING YEAR 2025
BUDGET $50,000,000
SUMMARY
Following in the footsteps of other infamous US correctional institutions such as Folsom Prison and Alcatraz, Sing Sing Prison, in Ossining New York is undertaking a museum project. The still active prison has been the focus of plans to open a museum in some of its former buildings for 30 years, without success. However, now plans are in place for the $50 million project. Sing Sing opened in 1825 on a 130-acre site on the Hudson River and was the third prison built in New York state. The original building that will form the core of the museum was constructed by 100 convicted criminals out of stone quarried on site. The new museum aims to educate visitors about the prison’s past and its fearsome reputation. Over six hundred prisoners were executed there, including its most famous inmates Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were convicted of espionage and executed by electric chair in 1953. The main part of the museum, the Power House, will be situated outside the prison walls in a former power station, complete with permanent displays and a theatre. A passageway will be constructed through the prison walls, allowing visitors into the heart of the oldest part of prison complex, no longer in use. Sing Sing prison museum is slated to open in 2025 in time for the 200th anniversary of the institution.

CONTACTS
Sing Sing Prison Museum Project Office
127 Main Street
Ossining, New York 10562
USA
Brent Glass
Executive Director
+1 914 236 5407
singsingprisonmuseum@gmail.com
+1 212 759 646239 West 37th Street
Floor 12A
New York, New York 10018
USA
Michael Devonshire
Director of Conservation
devonshire@jhpokorny.com
Lord Cultural Resources
+1 416 928 92921300 Yonge Street, Suite 400
Toronto, Ontario M4T 1X3
Canada
Gail Dexter-Lord
Co-Founder
info@lord.ca
Thinc Design
+1 212 741 3844110 Wall Street, 2nd Floor
New York, NY 10005
USA
Tom Hennes
Principal and Founder
tomh@thincdesign.com
Ennead Architects
+1 212 807 71711 World Trade Center 40th Floor
New York, NY 10007
USA