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Join us for The Long Island Museum’s biggest fundraiser of the year!

Enjoy a festive evening of dinner, dancing, and live music! Get a head start on your holiday shopping at our annual silent auction, with proceeds supporting the Museum’s exhibitions and educational programming.

We are excited to honor the dedicated members of the Stony Brook Fire Department for their outstanding service to our community, and Kevin Lenane, private collector and lender of LIM’s 50 Years of Apple Computers exhibition.


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Purchase Admission in the Carriage Museum 11/5-11/8

Our Visitors Center and Gift Shop will be closed from Thursday, November 5, through Sunday, November 8.

During this time, museum admission can be purchased inside our Carriage Museum, located across the street on the east side of campus. Please enter through the parking lot on Blydenburgh Lane.  See Map

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Live Music at Lim. Relaxing afternoons to rockin' free concerts.
FILM@LIM: Film Screenings at the museum from powerful documentaries to crowd-pleasing family films.
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Celebrating the 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution on Long Island

LIM proudly joins the nation in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the American Revolution. In 2026, discover how Long Island stood at the center of the fight for independence through powerful exhibitions and engaging public programs inspired by this historic milestone.

Get your Long Island’s Path to Independence Passport Stamp!

We’re excited to be included in the commemorative keepsake book, Long Island’s Path to Independence: A Revolutionary Historical Passport — an interactive guide in conjunction with the 250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Declaration of Independence.

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Thursday: 11:30 am–7:00 pm*
Friday–Sunday: 12:00–5 pm

*Admission is free, and the Gift Shop is closed after 5:00 p.m. on Thursdays. 

Admission and Holiday Closure Schedule 

1800s Wells Fargo Coach on display.

Carriage Museum


Explore our 40,000-square-foot Carriage Museum, home to the finest collection of American horse-drawn transportation artifacts in the world!

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Donate to one of our special projects. Your contribution supports cultural arts programming for people of all ages.

In the Moment

Participant in the In the Moment program creating art LIM’s In the Moment programs are designed to creatively engage those living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss and their care partners.

Collecting Preserving Celebrating

Long Island’s Black History at The Long Island Museum. The 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.

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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

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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.

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Photographs of Museum buildings and grounds on the homepage were taken by Brian Kutner.