Legendary Lower East Side Troll Museum Returning for Just One Week

The Lower East Side Troll Museum is one of those legends people who have lived in the neighborhood for decades will probably never forget. A woman named Reverend Jen opened the museum in her tiny walk-up apartment on Orchard Street in 2000, and it quickly became a popular spectacle of just how delightfully weird the Lower East Side was.

Reverend Jen, however, was evicted from her apartment in 2016 after being unable to pay her rent and was given just six hours to collect all of her belongings and memorabilia. As Reverend Jen herself describes this dark part of her story:

But soon, dark days befell the Lower East Side. Gentrification (the process of making a once rockin' neighborhood suck) took hold and the neighborhood's quirky village of theaters and art stars quickly became a strip mall for douchebags.

Luckily, the community space Chinatown Soup at 16 Orchard Street agreed to show her Troll Museum as a pop-up exhibit from August 16-August 23, featuring an audio tour with Moby narrating (downloadable on iTunes), a free art school, a "Troll Hairdressing Party," a "Prom," a "Picnic," and, of course, all the Trolls you could possibly imagine.

The magic opens Tuesday night at 7 p.m. and anyone is welcome. See the Facebook event for more details.

Image via Troll Museum Resurrection Facebook page