Featuring highlights from Preservation Long Island’s collections, our latest exhibition dives into the facts (or lack thereof) behind popular myths about early American life.
Exhibitions
Current Exhibition
Past Exhibit: Collecting Long Island
In 1976, SPLIA curator, Dean Failey, mounted the first exhibition to explore Long Island’s rich and often puzzling decorative arts heritage. More than forty years later, its groundbreaking discoveries continue to inspire and inform. Collecting Long Island follows the continued efforts of collectors to expand our knowledge of Long Island’s […]
Past Exhibit: #MyLongIslandLandmarks
Curated by Franklin Hill Perrell of the Artful Circle with special thanks to Debra Wells #MyLongIslandLandmarks, was inspired by an Instagram hashtag. We reached out to the community asking for depictions of favorite Long Island landmarks so that people would think about Long Island as a place of history and […]
Past Exhibit: “Selling Long Island: Commercial Maps of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries”
“Selling Long Island: Commercial Maps of the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries” explored how the art of cartography was used during the 19th and 20th centuries to define the geography of Long Island as a place for investment, industry and commerce, home-building, and ultimately, substantial growth and profit. Featured […]
Past Exhibit: Antiques that Speak: Collecting Long Island in the 21st Century
Dedicated to the late Huyler Held (1925-2012), a Preservation Long Island past president and its longest standing trustee, this exhibit featured many of Preservation Long Island’s most significant acquisitions. Ranging from eighteenth and nineteenth century masterworks of Long Island decorative arts to 20th century ephemera, these objects and images tell […]
Past Exhibit: Long Island at Work and at Play: Early 20th Century Photographs from Preservation Long Island’s Collections
Step back in time to see how Long Island was in the early 1900s at our exhibit, Long Island at Work and at Play: Early 20th Century Photographs from Preservation Long Island’s Collections. These never before seen images are just some of the gems of Preservation Long Island’s collections. Featuring […]