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To ensure all visitors safety, admission is currently by timed tickets. Frequent cleaning schedules are in place.

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Exhibition On View, September 23, 2021 – January 9, 2022
The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 (Part II): Tracing History, Inspiring the Future

 

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Email info@heckscher.org or Call 631.380.3230, Monday through Friday: 9 am – 5 pm, Saturday & Sunday: 12 – 5 pm.

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Hours, Admission, & More

HOURS

Thursday – Sunday
12 noon – 5 pm

Monday – Wednesday
CLOSED

Closed on the following holidays:
Easter, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day

Closed for Exhibit Change:
January 10 – 19, 2022

The Museum will close early to the public:
3 pm on Sunday, March 13, 2022

Visits are limited to one hour, up to 35 individuals at one time.
Groups larger than 35 cannot be accommodated.

Timed tickets available for:

12 – 1 pm
12:30 – 1:30 pm
1 – 2 pm
1:30 – 2:30 pm
2 – 3 pm
2:30  – 3:30 pm
3  – 4 pm
3:30  – 4:30 pm
4 – 5 pm

ADMISSION FEES

  • Members: Free
  • Non-Members: $5 Suggested Admission*
  • Children under 13: Free

*Payment is suggested, but not required.
Donate during check-in or online after your visit.

Health and Safety Policies

Before entering the Museum, all visitors are required to sign the following Visitor Practices and Policies Agreement, indicating that they have read, understand, and will comply with it during the length of their visit. Please note that these policies are subject to change without notice as the situation demands.

Visitor Practices and Policies Agreement

The Heckscher Museum is abiding by federal, state and local guidelines and regulations that follow best practices concerning public health and social distancing. Preventative measures have been put in place; however, this is no guarantee that you and your party will not be exposed to COVID-19 if you choose to enter the property.

  • If you or someone in your party has COVID-19, is experiencing symptoms, or believes they have been exposed to the virus, please do not attempt to visit the Museum.
  • In accordance with CDC guidance, all visitors over the age of 4 and all Museum staff are required to wear a mask or cloth face covering.
  • Visitors and Museum staff will observe 6-foot social distancing whenever possible.
  • Visitors who do not respect the requirements for social distancing and masking will be asked to leave the premises.

A Museum staff member is stationed at the entrance to:

  • Greet visitors and answer questions about visitor requirements.
  • Assure that visitors understand social distancing and masking requirements.

Preventative measures inside the Museum:

  • Restrooms are limited to one person or family at a time. The Museum will be frequently disinfecting and cleaning restrooms.
  • A hand sanitizer station is available.
  • Frequent cleaning schedules are in place for Museum public spaces.

Artwork On View

The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100 (Part II): Tracing History, Inspiring the Future

September 23, 2021 – January 9, 2022

This expansive exhibition traces our history and points to our future by celebrating the people, events, and art that have indelibly shaped the Museum. Unfolding chronologically, the exhibition explores the development of the permanent collection from 185 paintings and sculptures in 1920, to 2,300 works in many media today. Each gallery focuses on a defining chapter in the Museum’s story: our founding in 1920 by civic leaders August and Anna Atkins Heckscher, the transformational tenure of Museum Director Eva Gatling, our pivotal role in preserving the legacies of American modernists Arthur Dove and Helen Torr, and the acquisition of hundreds of artworks from the Baker/Pisano Collection in 2001.

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George Grosz’s “Eclipse of the Sun” 

June 5, 2021 – January 9, 2022

Eclipse of the Sun is a masterpiece of political art and one of the most significant paintings in a public collection on Long Island. As signaled by the dollar sign darkening the sun, a symbol of life, the artwork critiques the greed and violence of Germany’s military, politicians, and industrialists. The tilted perspective, dissonant color, and ambiguous sense of space underscore the instability of the period following World War I.

Eclipse of the Sun is currently on view in the exhibition The Heckscher Museum Celebrates 100: Tracing History, Inspiring the Future.

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