Brooklyn Children’s Museum’s Geothermal Well Repair and Rehabilitation

FAIN: CHA-290111-24

Brooklyn Children's Museum (Brooklyn, NY 11213-1900)
Atiba Edwards (Project Director: May 2022 to March 2025)
Michael G. Williams (Project Director: March 2025 to present)

Rehabilitation of the geothermal heating and cooling system to protect collections, visitors, and staff at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum, New York.

Brooklyn Children’s Museum (BCM) seeks a grant of $750,000 to repair and rehabilitate our geothermal wells, a key component in heating and cooling our building. Installed in 2008 when geothermal technology was still nascent, the system requires upgrades and repairs. As a result, temperatures in the Museum have at times surpassed 80 degrees in the summer and 40 degrees in the winter, forcing the Museum to close and limiting our ability to serve our community. Furthermore, temperatures have risen to 90 degrees in our collections storage area, putting our collection of 30,000 objects at risk. This grant would support rehabilitation of BCM’s four geothermal wells, stabilizing the Museum’s temperature and allowing it to be a year-round resource for families in Central Brooklyn and a safe humanities resource space for years to come.