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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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! Rory Block is a legendary blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter known for her powerful, authentic interpretations of traditional country […]
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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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