What's New

Learn more about Dahesh Museum of Art's Collection. Each month, the Museum features one artwork for special consideration. Click here to find out more about The Artwork of the Month.

Shop the Exotic

The Museum's Gift Shop, relocated to 55 East 52nd Street in Midtown Manhattan, has new items for the new season—from shimmering jewelry to sumptuous shawls, rare books, and exotic imports. We invite you to visit, and select something inspired by the Collection. Use Google map and travel instructions on the internet, or call 212.759.0606.

Alive, Well...and Quite Busy

Everyone we meet asks what the Museum has been doing since closing its doors at Madison Avenue and 57th. We want to assure our fans that the Museum has been nothing but busy. While we continue to look for a suitable new location, we have expanded our partnership with Syracuse University, working with students and faculty in their Museum Studies Program. In addition, we have collaborated with other arts institutions and art schools to mount exhibitions that explore aspects of Academic art right up to the present. We are lending individual works to major exhibitions here and abroad, while large groups of our favorite paintings and sculptures regularly travel to important European museums. And every year, we underwrite graduate student scholarship on the long 19th century.

We continue to draw on the collection to develop new exhibitions as well as plan new publications. This fall we will publish a revised version of our elegant brochure on academic art, and our staff has begun work on a large-format volume that contains new research on the Museum's collection, including recent acquisitions. The website is being re-organized to make it easier to use and more informative.

While the Dahesh Museum of Art may not have found a permanent home, its mission remains the same and its value is undiminished. For regular updates, sign up now for our e-newsletter -- and welcome to the Dahesh Museum of Art.