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Join fashion historian Stéphane Houy-Towner for special tours through our historic Gilded Age home, Glenview, spotlighting how fashionable society dressed up to be seen when out and about. Look at daytime and nighttime fashions on display in paintings, photographs, and on mannequins in Glenview, which is decorated for the holiday season. Space is limited; the

Come warm your spirits with holiday fun during this special night at the Museum. Explore Glenview historic home, which will be decked out for the holidays, as well as our exhibitions, permanent collection, and a free program with a fashion historian! Enjoy pay-what-you-wish admission and a cash bar. Plus, take advantage of a 20% discount

Join Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department, for a tour and explore the deeper meanings of Thomas Cole’s integral Catskill Creek paintings, on loan from major museums and private collections. Vookles will discuss Cole’s importance to the development of American landscape paintings, having laid the groundwork for many of the artists in our collection

Activist and filmmaker Jon Bowermaster will screen a selection of his short films from the series Hope on the Hudson and Hudson River Stories, several of which (Bomb Trains On the Hudson, Anchors Away, Dear Governor Cuomo, and A Pipeline Runs Through It) have had swift and lasting impact helping to preserve and protect the

This event is cancelled. Sarah Lawrence College Theater Outreach Program presents a new musical for all ages about an urban family seeking a deeper connection with nature. During a visit to Catskill Creek, they encounter the ghost of Thomas Cole, a mysterious nature photographer with a large camera, and an orange vested, contemporary landscape painter.

Take a behind-the-scenes tour of Self in the City, an exhibition that focuses on the urban environment and the ways in which cities and individuals contend with each other, with paintings on loan from Art Bridges alongside works from the Museum’s collection. Laura Vookles, Chair of the Curatorial Department, will share insight on how and

Join artist Ebony Bolt in painting a watercolor landscape scene inspired by James McElhinney: Discover the Hudson Anew. Whether you are new to painting or looking to fine-tune your skills, you will learn to paint step-by-step. Tickets: $5; refreshments and admission included.

Expand your knowledge of environmentalism and conservation in this laid-back, reading-and-discussion book club series, while connecting with new people. Through fiction and non-fiction, readers will engage with perspectives that capture the complicated relationship Americans have with the land and living things around them. Join environmental educator Troy Thompson as he leads stimulating conversations over the

Celebrate our natural surroundings with a day of fun, family-friendly, and environmentally conscious activities! 12–5pm – Ecological Science at NASA To understand the biosphere, you need to take a step back and study it from the outside—and that means from space. This selection of short videos covers how scientists use satellites to gather data on

Teaching Artist-in-Residence Jia Sung will guide visitors in analyzing the ways in which artists have captured moments and moods in landscape and cityscape through their use of color and language. Then, participants practice these very methods by making their own notebooks out of recycled paper, filling them with observational drawings, drawings from memory, and journal