Special Events

Part I of our 80th Anniversary Event Series:  History This inaugural event at the Mount House features dinner, tours of the house, music, raffle prizes, cocktails and a discussion of William Sidney Mount and the Mount/Hawkins families. Wear your summer whites (or reds or blues) for a true Americana summer evening celebrating the Long Island […]

Part II of our 80th Anniversary Event Series:  Music Fine dining by Bliss Restaurant among the Long Island Museum’s world-class carriages. That’s right, we’re opening up one of the galleries in the Carriage Museum for this special evening. Afterward, we’ll move outside to the lawn where Tom Manuel of the Jazz Loft and his 7-piece […]

The LIM in collaboration with Red Skies Music Ensemble presents this research-based program which weaves together an engaging narrative with live musical performance, theatrical cameos and large screen images to explore Whitman and Mount’s interconnected biographies and how music was an essential part of their creative lives. With music performance as the portal, the audience […]

Part III of our 80th anniversary event series:  Fashion Enjoy fine dining in the newly-named Cowles Gallery (formerly the Bayman’s Art Gallery) in the Visitors Center. Our special guest, a fashion historian will discuss the history of fashions and fashion design in the United States. Finally, take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Philip & Mary […]