As a living history of urban activism, the Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space (MoRUS) chronicles the East Village community’s history of grassroots action. It celebrates the local activists who transformed abandoned spaces and vacant lots into vibrant community spaces and gardens. Many of these innovative, sustainable concepts and designs have since spread out to the rest of the city and beyond.

The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Space preserves the history of the Lower East Side’s grassroots activism and promotes environmentally-sound, community-based urban ecologies.

 

We do this by:

• archiving and documenting the history of the Lower East Side’s activism
• educating visitors with exhibitions and guided tours of the neighborhood
• empowering individuals to participate in the drive for sustainable change with workshops and events