• America on Screen: Coming to America

    America on Screen

    Join us on select Friday afternoons for a special film series commemorating America’s 250th: Anniversary: America on Screen. Enjoy screenings of Smithsonian Channel programs that explore the people, places, and stories that shaped America. Coming to America For many immigrants, their first sight of the U.S. is the Statue of Liberty. The iconic structure promises […]

  • Plein Air Painting

    Plein Air Painting

    Capture the beauty of LIM’s gardens and grounds with an afternoon of painting en plein air! Find inspiration all around you, from the beauty of nature and the charm of our historic buildings to the creativity of our outdoor sculpture collection. Painters of all ages and levels are invited. Bring your painting/drawing materials, or borrow […]

  • Art Expression @ The Long Island Museum | An In the Moment program

    Join us for an afternoon of creativity as LIM hosts the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center’s Art Expression program. This monthly workshop is being offered as part of LIM's In the Moment, which are specially designed programs for those living with memory loss and their care partners. REGISTRATION Space is limited and advance registration is required.To […]

  • MORNINGS@LIM: Gallery Tour of “Long Island in the ’70s”

    Mornings@LIM

    Mornings @ LIM are free monthly sessions open to individuals living with dementia and their care partners. They offer time for creative engagement and social connection in our galleries and art studio, as well as through special music and movie programs. These programs are run in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center. Gallery Tour […]

  • America on Screen: A Star-Spangled Story

    America on Screen

    Join us on select Friday afternoons for a special film series commemorating America’s 250th: Anniversary: America on Screen. Enjoy screenings of Smithsonian Channel programs that explore the people, places, and stories that shaped America. A Star-Spangled Story: Battle for America "The Star-Spangled Banner" is known by all, treasured for its powerful melody and stirring lyrics. […]

  •  Flashpoints: Protests and Controversies on Long Island in the ’70s

    We Long Islanders don't hesitate to make ourselves heard, and never was our fighting spirit more impactful than it was in the roiling years from 1967 to the early '80s. Join Amy Benjamin to revisit how we raised our voices for and against the Vietnam War, the Shoreham nuclear power plant, school desegregation, the Island […]

  • Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics with author Mark Torres | FREE

    Historian Mark Torres’ book, Long Island and the Legacy of Eugenics: Station of Intolerance, covers the dark history of the eugenics program developed by the Eugenics Record Office at Cold Spring Harbor, New York, during the early 20th century and its spread throughout the nation and the world. Torres will discuss the local characters, influences, and […]

  • Hawkins-Mount House Tours | LI250

    Hawkins-Mount House Tours | LI250

    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 […]

  • MORNINGS@LIM: The Troubadours Concert

    Mornings@LIM

    Mornings @ LIM are free monthly sessions open to individuals living with dementia and their care partners. They offer time for creative engagement and social connection in our galleries and art studio, as well as through special music and movie programs. These programs are run in collaboration with the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center. Music Program: […]

  • America on Screen: The Day We Walked on the Moon

    America on Screen

    Join us on select Friday afternoons for a special film series commemorating America’s 250th: Anniversary: America on Screen. Enjoy screenings of Smithsonian Channel programs that explore the people, places, and stories that shaped America. The Day We Walked the Moon O On July 20 1969, astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on […]

  • America on Screen: Made in the USA

    America on Screen

    Join us on select Friday afternoons for a special film series commemorating America’s 250th: Anniversary: America on Screen. Enjoy screenings of Smithsonian Channel programs that explore the people, places, and stories that shaped America. Made in the USA Witness the complicated path to the American Dream, forged by workers in the early 20th century. At […]