The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages
ON VIEW
EVENTS
Winter Open House
Second Saturdays in the Studio – Family Series
Dickens in the Gallery
Sunday Street Concerts – Byrds Fly South: Celebrating the Songs of The Byrds
NEW AT THE MUSEUM
Holiday Food Drive for Agape Meals for Kids
LIM is proud to be an official food drive drop-off site for Agape Meals for Kids, a local non-profit providing backpacks with food to children facing food insecurity every week. Please help us spread cheer and ensure a nutritious holiday break for food-insecure children on Long Island. Receive one free admission to the museum for your donation!
Colors of Long Island Registration Now Open
Calling all art teachers! Registration for our annual student art exhibition is now open. Don’t miss this amazing opportunity to have your students’ masterpieces in a museum for all to enjoy. *Registration closes on January 8, 2025.
VISIT
HOURS
The Museum is open:
- Thursday: 11:30 am to 7:00 pm*
- Friday–Sunday: Noon to 5:00 pm
*Please note: after 5:00 pm, there will be free admission and the museum gift shop will be closed.
Admission and Holiday Closure Schedule
MAP
Come explore our beautiful 9-acre campus filled with historic buildings and art installations.
Interactive Map
CARRIAGES
Our 40,000-square-foot Carriage Museum is home to the world’s finest collection of horse-drawn vehicles and transportation artifacts.
Become a member
Join today and enjoy the benefits of LIM membership.
Support Us
Donate to one of our special projects. Your contribution supports cultural arts programming for people of all ages.
Explore
Explore exhibitions on American art and history with a Long Island connection.
LIM Connects: School Programs
Connect with us through virtual or in-person programs this 2024–2025 school year.
Collecting Preserving Celebrating
Long Island’s Black History at The Long Island MuseumThe Long Island Museum (LIM), a Smithsonian Affiliate located in Stony Brook, New York, holds outstanding collections of Long Island regional art and history. LIM is seeking to add objects, photographs, and works of art to its permanent collection that explore the historical experiences and many contributions of African Americans living across the Nassau-Suffolk county regional area. These incoming treasures will help the Museum to explore and share Long Island’s rich Black history with our visitors for many years to come.
A Checklist of Long Island Artists by Ronald G. Pisano and D. Frederick Baker in collaboration with the Long Island Museum, 2022
The LIM is proud of their newest publication A Checklist of Long Island Artists of the Nineteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries, a fully-illustrated, full-color 100-page selective and alphabetized checklist of more than 1,000 artists (painters, printmakers, and sculptors) who lived and/or worked on Long Island during the time frame covered by the volume.
For book orders contact:
Megan Witalis
Gift Store & Visitor Services Manager, LIM mwitalis@longislandmuseum.org
Long Road to Freedom: Surviving Slavery on Long Island
Based on the 2019 exhibition of the same name, the publication written by LIM’s Curator Jonathan M. Olly, Ph.D., focuses on the experiences of people of color from the 17th to 19th centuries. The five-chapter publication explores: how slavery operated, how African Americans resisted bondage, navigated the era of emancipation, and built communities in the decades after slavery, from Brooklyn to the Hamptons.
Photographs of Museum buildings and grounds on the homepage were taken by Brian Kutner.
