Nassau County Museum of Art

Nassau County Museum of Art is an art museum and sculpture park located on a historic estate in Roslyn Harbor, New York, on Long Island. The site combines indoor exhibition galleries in a historic mansion with an extensive outdoor sculpture park across the surrounding grounds.

Permanent and rotating indoor exhibitions cover modern and contemporary art as well as historical decorative arts, while the sculpture park displays outdoor works across the estate, creating a campus experience over large grounds. The museum frequently mounts temporary shows, art installations and educational programs for all ages.

The institution was established to preserve and present art on the former estate and has developed both indoor gallery programming and an outdoor sculpture collection over several decades. The property retains landscape features of the original estate while adapting interiors for galleries and exhibitions.

The museum is in Roslyn Harbor on the North Shore of Long Island, roughly 25 to 30 miles east of Manhattan depending on route, set within suburban parkland rather than an urban setting.

• Best time to visit: The museum sits on a large, park-like estate making spring and summer the best times to combine indoor exhibitions with the outdoor sculpture collection.

What to See #

• Sculpture Park: A landscaped sculpture park set across the museum estate with outdoor works by contemporary and modern sculptors and formal garden areas for walking and viewing.
• Mansion galleries and exhibition spaces: The historic mansion and indoor galleries that host rotating exhibitions of painting, sculpture and decorative arts drawn from the museum collection and temporary loans.