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Ranked among the nation's largest, most important suburban art museums, Nassau County Museum of Art is 145 acres of art, gardens & sculpture

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Nassau County Museum of Art is located about 25 miles east of New York City in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island on the former Frick Estate, a spectacular property in the heart of Long Island's fabled Gold Coast. The main museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold and Joan Saltzman, is a three-story Georgian mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century. In 2017, the museum inaugurated The Manes Family Art & Education Center. This new facility has allowed the museum to expand its menu of programs and works on view.

Nassau County Museum of Art preserves, enhances, and interprets its collections for the people of Long Island, the State of New York and beyond. The museum is dedicated to fostering a deeper understanding of the arts, with particular emphasis on the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries; to enhancing and adding to its outdoor sculpture garden, to continuing to improve its historic gardens and to keeping an active schedule of exhibitions and educational programs for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Address: One Museum Dr, Roslyn, NY 11576, USA
Phone: (516) 484-9338
State: New York
Zip Code: 11576


Reviews
Great small local art museum. Exhibits change frequently and all are great. A beautiful setting on an old estate. There are free docent tours at 2 pm, or you can book private tours.
8 years ago (29-08-2017)
Beautiful outdoor exhibits, delightful tour of the museum. Taken from their website: "Docent-led tours of the main exhibition are offered at 2 pm each day; free with museum admission. Meet in the lobby, no reservations are needed." 
8 years ago (27-08-2017)
Small museum with a good curator, and very decent collection. The grounds are lovely.
8 years ago (15-08-2017)
My family went to this art museum for the first time last summer to see the Kenny Scharf exhibit, and then we went again in the winter for the photography exhibits. My teenage daughter loved both exhibits as much as I did. They were very unique and not like the usual museum fare. Be sure to go on the second floor of the museum which houses a craft center for kids and some additional exhibits. It also has an awesome gift shop with some pretty unusual items (some related to the exhibits, others unrelated). Lastly, the grounds are lovely and have sculptures scattered about so be sure to wear comfortable shoes so you can see them all.
9 years ago (23-01-2017)
You NEED to go for the day and spend some time here. During a beautiful day get a lunch and hang out behind the museum and enjoy a visitor that is usually a Red Fox that lives on the grounds. I LOVE this place. I used to hang here in the '80's and still love it each and every-time I get to come to this beautiful place.
9 years ago (13-12-2016)
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