Death becomes it: how the Morbid Anatomy Museum slayed Brooklyn

Founded by a graphic designer with a dark passion, this collection of macabre curiosities attracts an eclectic audience in the industrial Gowanus districtSurveying the subterranean event space at Brooklyn’s Morbid Anatomy Museum on a recent October evening, Elisabeth Brander approved it as fittingly “dungeon-like”. Brander, a rare medical books librarian at Washington University in St Louis, was going to give a talk called Hannibal Lecter, Book Collector. And the black floor, b