Heckscher Museum of Art
The Heckscher Museum of Art is an American art museum. It is named after its benefactors, Anna and August Heckscher, who in 1920 donated 185 works of art to be housed in a new Beaux-Arts building located in Heckscher Park, in Huntington, New York.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Opening hours: Thursday—Sunday noon—5:00 PM
- Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in Huntington, New York
- Also known as: “Heckscher Museum” and “The Heckscher Museum of Art”
- Address: 2 Prime Avenue, Huntington, NY 11743
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Heckscher Park and Old First Church.
Heckscher Park
Park
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Heckscher Park is a local park and national historic district in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. It is bounded by Madison Street, Sabbath Day Path, Main Street, and Prime Avenue.
Old First Church
Church
Photo: Doug Kerr, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Old First Church is an historic Presbyterian church building at 125 Main Street in Huntington, Suffolk County, New York. It was built in 1784 and is a two and one-half-story building with a steeply pitched gable roof. Old First Church is situated 550 feet east of Heckscher Museum of Art.
Prime House
House
Photo: DanTD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Prime House is a historic home located at Huntington in Suffolk County, New York. It is a 2+1⁄2-story, five-bay, gable-roofed clapboard structure with a shed roof rear extension.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Halesite and Huntington Station.
Halesite
Village
Photo: Muncharelli, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Halesite is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 2,498 at the 2010 census.
Huntington Station
Town
Huntington Station is a hamlet and census-designated place in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on Long Island, in New York, in the United States. Huntington Station is situated 1½ miles south of Heckscher Museum of Art.
Huntington Bay
Village
Huntington Bay is a village in the Town of Huntington in Suffolk County, on East Neck on the North Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. The population was 1,425 at the time of the 2010 census. Huntington Bay is situated 2 miles north of Heckscher Museum of Art.
Heckscher Museum of Art
- Categories: art museum, house, building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Huntington, Suffolk County, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude
40.87482° or 40° 52′ 29″ northLongitude
-73.42175° or 73° 25′ 18″ westElevation
26 feet (8 metres)Levels
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In Other Languages
From Egyptian Arabic to Turkish—“Heckscher Museum of Art” goes by many names.
- Egyptian Arabic: “متحف هيكشر للفنون”
- French: “Musée d’Art Heckscher”
- German: “Heckscher Kunstmuseum”
- German: “Heckscher Museum of Art”
- German: “Kunstmuseum Heckscher”
- German: “Kunstmuseum Huntington”
- Japanese: “ヘックシャー美術館”
- Polish: “Heckscher Museum of Art”
- Russian: “Художественный музей Хекшера”
- Turkish: “Heckscher Müzesi”
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