About The Museum
Ranked
among the nations largest, most important suburban art museums,
Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located 20 miles east of
New York City in Roslyn Harbor, Long Island on the former Frick
Estate, a spectacular 145-acre property in the heart of Long
Islands fabled Gold Coast. The main museum building, named in
honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold & Joan
Saltzman, is a three-story Georgian mansion that exemplifies
Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century. The museum's
main galleries host an ambitious schedule of major exhibitions,
most of which are originated and organized by the museums own
curatorial staff. These exhibitions span broad artistic vistas,
including European and American art movements primarily from the
19th century to the present. The museum's Contemporary Gallery,
in the main building, showcases work by some of todays most
intriguing visual artists.
The museum's magnificent 145-acre property includes restored Formal Gardens of historic importance, an architecturally-significant restored trellis, quiet spots to contemplate the lushly planted gardens, examples of rare tree specimens, marked walking trails and monumental outdoor sculpture sited throughout the property in one of the largest publicly accessible sculpture parks in the Northeast.
Once administered by Nassau County's Office of Cultural Development, NCMA became a private not-for-profit institution in 1989 and is governed and funded by a private board of trustees which includes many of Long Island's most prominent business, civic and social leaders and which is responsible for its governance and funding. The museum is chartered and accredited under the laws of New York State as a not-for-profit private educational institution and museum.
Mission Statement
The 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 widening the appeal of The Art Space for Children; 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.
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Ranked among the nations most important suburban art museums, Nassau County Museum of Art (NCMA) is located 20 miles east of New York City on the former Frick Estate, a spectacular 145-acre property in the heart of Long Islands fabled Gold Coast. The museum building, named in honor of art collectors and philanthropists Arnold & Joan Saltzman, is a three-story Georgian mansion that exemplifies the Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century. In addition to the mansion, NCMA, which receives nearly 200,000 visitors each year, includes the Art Space for Children, the Sculpture Park, the Formal Garden, the Pinetum and the Art Studios (NCMA Education Center) where an extensive array beginning to advanced art classes are held for adults and children.
Once administered by Nassau Countys Office of Cultural Development, NCMA became a private not-for-profit institution in 1989 and is now governed and funded by a private board of trustees which includes many of Long Islands most prominent business, civic and social leaders.
Exhibitions
NCMA annually presents four major new exhibitions, each of which is original to the museum and is organized by the museums own curatorial staff. Always adventurous in scope, NCMA exhibitions have reached across a broad spectrum of artistic concernsfrom European and American art movements (Surrealism, September 2000 & May 2007); Reflections of Opulence, May, 2001, A Century of Prints, March 2003, La Belle Epoque, June 2003, European Art Between the Wars, May 2004, Picasso, February 2005, Picasso and the School of Paris. November 2006, Pop and Op, February 2008), to epochs of American history (The Revolutionary War, January 2000, Window on the West, February 2002, The World of Theodore Roosevelt, November 2002, The WPA Era, August 2004 and The American Spirit: Paintings by Mort Kunstler, August 2006) to the influences of one art form on another (Dance, Dance, Dance, June 2000, Explosive Photography/Photorealism, January 2004 and Geoffrey Holder: A Life in Art, Theater and Dance, November 2007), to the impact of Long Island artists on contemporary art (The Hamptons Since Pollock, April 2000) and to the influence of a dynamic world leader on the arts (Napoleon And His Age, January 2001). In addition to these major exhibitions, NCMA mounts smaller original exhibitions in the Library Gallery, the Second Floor galleries and regularly showcases work by some of today's most intriguing artists in the Contemporary Gallery.
Permanent Collection
NCMAs collection of more than 600 art objects spans American and European art of the 19th and 20th centuries. Encompassing all types of media, the collection includes works by Rodin, Braque, Vuillard, Bonnard, Lichtenstein, Rivers, Rauschenberg, Chaim Gross, Moses Soyer, Audrey Flack, Frank Stella, George Segal and Alex Katz among many others. Particularly notable are the museums holdings of works by Latin American artists of the 20th- and 21st-centuries. Among those represented in this collection are Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Fernando Botero, Alejandro Colunga, Luiz Cruz Azeceta, Arnaldo Roche-Rabell and Efrain Almeida.
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Sculpture
The 145 acres of the former Frick Estate constitute one of the largest publicly accessible sculpture gardens on the East Coast. Among the more than 40 sculptures sited on the property to interact with the natural environment are works by Calder, Botero, Tom Otterness, Chaim Gross, Nagare, Richard Serra and others.
Education
Accredited by the New York State Board of Regents as a museum and educational institution, NCMA serves more than 18,000 Long Island school children and their teachers who visit the museum each year for exhibition tours and art-related activities. The Education Department additionally sponsors extensive art studio workshops for children and adults at all artistic skill levels. It also provides individual school lectures, teacher training programs, and Saturday morning programs integrating art and performance. NCMAs professional staff is augmented by more than 200 volunteers and 90 docents who provide informative exhibition tours for the public and who extend the museum's reach by offering programs in community-based venues such as libraries and senior citizen centers.
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Garden
Commissioned in 1925 by Frances Frick, an avid horticulturist and garden club member, the Frick Estates Formal Gardens have been restored to the original design of the famed landscape architect, Marian Cruger Coffin. Coffin considered these Formal Gardens to be among her finest creations.
Visitor Information
Nassau County Museum of Art is located at One Museum Drive (just off Northern Boulevard, Route 25A, two traffic lights west of Glen Cove Rd.) in Roslyn Harbor. Hours are 11 am to 4:45 pm Tuesday through Sunday. Admission to the main building, the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building, is $10 for adults, $8 for seniors (62+) and $4 for children; admissions include same day admission to The Art Space for Children. Weekends only there is a $2 parking fee. Free docent-led tours of the main exhibition are offered with paid admission at 2 pm each day. Meet in the lobby, no reservations are needed. The Museum Shop and Red Room Gallery are open all museum hours. Call (516) 484-9337 for current exhibitions, events, days/times and directions or log onto www.nassaumuseum.com.
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Nassau County Museum of Art is chartered under the laws of New York State as a not-for-profit private educational institution and museum. It is operated by a privately elected board of trustees which is responsible for its governance. The museum is funded through income derived from admissions, parking, membership, special events and private and corporate donations as well as federal and state grants.