The Long Island Museum of American Art, History and Carriages

ON VIEW



The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art

Through September 21, 2025

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"Black Opal" by Bill Durham


Giants and Gems: The Largest and Smallest from LIM’s Collection

July 24 through December 21, 2025

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Photograph of F. Scott Fitzgerald


Gatsby at 100

July 24 through October 19, 2025

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EVENTS

Summer Thursdays at the Long Island Museum

NEW AT THE MUSEUM

Help Name our Art Museum Lions


Name Our Lions!

For over 50 years, two majestic stone lions have stood proudly at the entrance of the Art Museum, welcoming visitors of all ages to the Long Island Museum. Despite their long history, these beloved sculptures have never had names—until now! Follow the link below to vote on a pair of names or suggest your own.

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Summer Fun @ The Long Island Museum

Get your colored pencils sharpened and your imaginations ignited, because it is time to register for the LIM’s 2025 summer offerings for students entering grades K–8! Join us for fun and engaging programs that keep young growing through the summer. 

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Arts & Alzheimer's Conference


9th Annual Arts & Alzheimers Conference

Discover the vast and enriching opportunities available for individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of memory loss. This free conference is intended for those who work in healthcare facilities, professional and family care partners, as well as the staff of cultural organizations who are looking to find meaningful ways to further connect with those living with dementia through the arts.

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HOURS

The Museum is open:

  • Thursday: 11:30 am to 7:00 pm*
  • Friday–Sunday: Noon to 5:00 pm

* After 5:00 pm on Thursdays, admission will be free and the 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

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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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.

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.

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