Ranked among the nation’s most important suburban art museums, Nassau County Museum of Art is located 25 miles east of New York City on the former Frick Estate, a spectacular 145-acre property in Roslyn Harbor 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 Georgian mansion that exemplifies Gold Coast architecture of the late 19th century.

In addition to the Arnold & Joan Saltzman Fine Art Building, Nassau County Museum of Art includes the Sculpture Park, formal gardens of historic importance, the Pinetum, ponds, woodlands, an architecturally-significant restored trellis, rare specimen trees, and marked walking trails. During 2017, the Museum will inaugurate the Manes Family Center for Art & Education, a free-standing facility located on the Museum grounds.

Nassau County Museum of Art presents major rotating exhibitions, many of which are original to the Museum and which are frequently organized by the Museum’s own curatorial staff or by guest curators. Always adventurous in scope, exhibitions have reached across a broad spectrum of artistic concerns. The permanent collection of more than 500 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, Frank Stella, and Alex Katz among many others.

The 145 acres of the former Frick Estate constitute one of the largest publicly-accessible Sculpture Gardens on the East Coast. Among the approximately 30 large-scale sculptures sited on the property to interact with the natural environment are works by Tom Otterness, Fernando Botero, Chaim Gross, Alejandro Colunga, Masayuki Nagare, Richard Serra, Manolo Valdes and many others. The Sculpture Park was founded in 1989. Commissioned in 1925 by Frances Frick, an avid horticulturist and garden club member, the Frick Estate’s Formal Gardens have been restored to the original design of the famed landscape architect, Marian Cruger Coffin. Coffin considered these gardens to be among her finest creations. In recent years, the historic garden trellis and water tower have been restored to original condition. Additionally, many pathways through the 145-acre property are now marked as guided nature trails.

The Museum's Education Department serves approximately 20,000 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 programming for children, adults and family groups and also offers professional development workshops to Long Island’s educators. Regular programs for families and children include the popular Neiman Marcus Family Sundays at the Museum, an interactive afternoon of gallery talks and hands-on art making.

Once administered by Nassau County’s Office of Cultural Development, the Museum 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 prominent business, civic and social leaders.

Nassau County Museum of Art is chartered and accredited under the laws of New York State as a not-for-profit private educational institution and museum. 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.

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