Step into the late nineteenth-century world of Edward Lange and follow his journey as an immigrant artist encountering a Long Island rapidly changing around him.
Exhibitions
Current Exhibition
Virtual Exhibition:
Democracy on Long Island
Exhibition
A companion exhibition to the Smithsonian Institution’s traveling exhibition, Voices and Votes: Democracy in America. Explore it virtually now!
Virtual Exhibition:
Blanket Statements: Long Island’s Early Weaving Industry
Learn about the development of Long Island’s professional textile industry and the broader historical events that shaped its growth during the first half of the nineteenth century.
Virtual Exhibition:
Facing Slavery: Reframing the Lloyd Family Portraits
Explore the interwoven stories of the Lloyd family, the family of Jupiter Hammon, and chattel slavery in what would become the United States.
Virtual Exhibition: Indigenous History & Art at Good Little Water Place
Artwork from nine contemporary Indigenous artists centers this exhibition, offering an inquisitive look at the history and on-going relations between Indigenous people and land.
Past Exhibition:
Voices and Votes: Democracy in America
Preservation Long Island was the first venue in New York to host the Smithsonian Museum on Main Street exhibition which took a broad look at the nearly 250-year-old American experiment of a government “of, by and for the people.”