📍 180 Little Neck Rd, Centerport, NY, 11721
📞 631-854-5579
The Vanderbilt Museum is a natural-history museum, historic mansion, planetarium and park located on the 43-acre summer estate of railroad heir and global explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (1878-1944). The estate, Eagle’s Nest, is an excellent example of the storied Long Island Gold Coast era, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Vanderbilt is engaged in education, collections, and programming. The state-of-the-art Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium is a popular year-round venue for education, live music, and entertainment, as well as for educational programming for schools. Plans for 2016 include opening the Under the Stars Café in the Planetarium, where a family can have a relaxing lunch or a couple can enjoy wine and cheese to enhance an evening visit. In addition, the Vanderbilt Gift Shop sells an intriguing variety of space and science-related gift items, books and toys for all ages. The Vanderbilt, opened to the public in 1950, just celebrated its 65th anniversary.
📍 94 E Jefryn Blvd, Deer Park, NY, 11729
📞 631-392-0866
📍 1300 New Highway, Farmingdale, NY, 11735
📞 631-293-6398
🌐 www.americanairpowermuseum.com
Some sixty five years ago, the current home of the American Airpower Museum at Republic Airport was a crucial part of the "Arsenal of Democracy". Home to Republic Aviation, the complex produced over 9,000 P-47 Thunderbolts in Farmingdale. The "Jug", as it was called because of its robust assembly line construction,went on to defeat the best fighter pilots the German Luftwaffe could muster. Today, no American aviation museum with a squadron of operational World War II air crafts has a more appropriate setting for its flight operations. Taxing to the very runways and hangars that dispatched Thunderbolts to war, vintage air crafts recreate those turbulent years and allow the public to watch these planes in their natural environment - the air. This exciting effort to keep our history alive is made possible through state grants, corporate underwriting, personal philanthropy and gifts from people like you.
📍 445 Commack Rd, Commack, NY, 11725
📞 631-543-1371
📍 S Broadway & Ste 3, Lindenhurst, NY, 11757
📞 631-226-1254
📍 Montauk Highway, West BayShore, NY, 11718
📞 631-854-0939
🌐 www.sagtikosmanor.com
The Sagtikos Manor was built in 1697, and expanded in 1772 and 1902. The estate served as headquarters for the British Army on Long Island for a brief time during the Revolutionary War. President George Washington stayed there during his tour of Long Island in 1790. The manor house is furnished with original family pieces just as it was when the last owner moved out in 1963. Our costumed docents will guide you through the manor house where you can view furniture, accessories and architectural styles from the 1600’s to the middle 1900’s. Your tour will take you through the first and second floors where, among the many rooms, you will see the bedroom where President George Washington slept.
📍 1303 Round Swamp Rd, Old Bethpage, NY, 11804
📞 516-454-8265
📍 215 S Wellwood Ave, Lindenhurst, NY, 11757
📞 631-957-4385
📍 246 Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, NY, 11746
📞 631-427-5240