LIM's Book Fair is Back—and Bigger Than Ever! Thanks to the incredible support and enthusiasm for last year's event, we're expanding the experience to include an art sale featuring original works by talented local artists at a variety of price points. 📚 Book lovers can browse a vast selection of gently used books, with countless […]
Warfare in Revolutionary North America required a massive mobilization of labor across a broad spectrum of inequality embedded in colonial legal regimes. Join Dr. Richard Tomczak of Stony Brook University for this fascinating lecture based on his 2025 book of the same title. Learn about the essential, but often overlooked, labor that sustained warfare and […]
Book Fair Extended! Thanks to the incredible generosity of our community, we’ve received even more book donations than last year! That means even more great reads to choose from. Due to the overwhelming response, we’re extending the book sale to Sunday, September 20, from 1:00–3:00 p.m. Enjoy these special discounts: Please note: Museum admission is […]
LIM and the Port Jefferson Arts Council bring films to our community that touch upon a variety of topics for FREE! Each film screening includes an engaging talk with a guest speaker or a fun activity. This September, join us as we watch Women Laughing (2025). Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Liza Donnelly sets out to […]
Join us for an evening of sound healing honoring the Fall Equinox with practitioner Toni Ann Nazimek, featuring crystal singing bowls, Tibetan bowls, chimes & gongs. Focus on nurturing the qualities of balance and renewal that this seasonal shift brings, and work on creating personalized intentions, incorporating them into the evening's meditation, as the sound […]
The Long Island Museum is proud to partner with Blue Star Museums, offering free museum admission to active and retired military personnel and their family all year long. During Blue Star Welcome Week 2026 (September 26–October 4, 2026), we extend our Museum Member merchandise discount to all military personnel this week! Enjoy 10% off in […]
A new collaboration between Long Island Museum and Long Island Chamber Music, the series aims to embrace the early American tradition of intimate living room salons of the Gilded Age. The Carriage House Salon Series pairs world-class chamber music inside Long Island Museum's historic Carriage Museum, offering audience members an up-close, vibrant connection to classical […]
Whether you knit, crochet, embroider, or hand-sew, gather at the LIM to do what you love. Bring your work-in-progress and enjoy some good company. Open to adults and children 12 and up. This program will take place in the Studio located on the East side of campus near the Carriage Museum. See Map. This community program […]
Stop by during the Three Village Historical Society and Tri-Spy Tour's 12th Annual Culper Spy Day, celebrating the rich Revolutionary heritage of our area. Explore LIM's The Seat of Action: Long Island in the American Revolution and Beyond exhibition and view a rare surviving letter dated November 8, 1779, between spymaster Benjamin Tallmadge (using his […]
As part of LIM’s America at 250 programming, join us for special tours of the historic Hawkins-Mount House! American genre painter William Sidney Mount created some of his most memorable scenes from inside an attic studio at this large, rambling 18th-century homestead. Located at the intersection of a historically-significant section of North Country Road, in […]
Join former Newsday staff writer and local history author Bill Bleyer as he traces the captivating history of the events surrounding the largest engagement of the American Revolution—the 1776 Battle of Long Island, a major defeat for the colonists that could have spelled the end of the Continental Army. Bleyer will also explore the subsequent […]
Due to an unexpected injury, this performance has been postponed indefinitely. We hope to reschedule soon. Please stay tuned! The Long Island Museum, Port Jefferson Arts Council, and WUSB-FM are proud to present an eclectic music series featuring nationally and internationally known touring artists. This October, join us for an extraordinary performance by Rory Block! […]
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