The Icon Museum and Study Center

Enjoy free admission all day, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Join us for a fun and free day at the Museum, designed to spark your imagination and to help you discover the wonder of art through close observation and creativity. What to do: Grab a free sketchbook, pencil, and colored pencils at the front desk. Choose an interesting icon and spend 5-10 minutes looking at it closely. Sketch or write down what you see and how it makes you feel in you

Spatial Icons: The Communion of the Apostles in Medieval Art and Ritual Free and open to the public. The Communion of the Apostles – a theme common to Byzantine and Slavic icons, manuscript decorations, textiles, liturgical objects, and mural cycles – presents a liturgical interpretation of the Last Supper. This image type display symmetrical compositions that center on a single or double-figure of Christ at an altar, officiating the Eucharistic bread

The Museum is offering free admission every Thursday in July. We will have drop-in activities and tours geared towards creative and inquisitive visitors of all ages. Visitors are also invited to join in on guided tours throughout the day offered by Museum staff and volunteers. Paints of the Earth Explore the materials used to create the vibrant colors found in our icons! Museum staff will guide visitors as they experiment with creating paints using

Enjoy free admission all day, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation. Many icons feature wild and fantastic beasts, some familiar to us and others not. This self-guided tour will allow families to learn about the different animals depicted in our icons and what they represent. Visitors can create their own works of art at our craft maker-space.

The Museum is offering free admission every Thursday in July. We will have drop-in activities and tours geared towards creative and inquisitive visitors of all ages. Visitors are also invited to join in on guided tours throughout the day offered by Museum staff and volunteers. Paints of the Earth Explore the materials used to create the vibrant colors found in our icons! Museum staff will guide visitors as they experiment with creating paints using

The Museum is offering free admission every Thursday in July. We will have drop-in activities and tours geared towards creative and inquisitive visitors of all ages. Visitors are also invited to join in on guided tours throughout the day offered by Museum staff and volunteers. Paints of the Earth Explore the materials used to create the vibrant colors found in our icons! Museum staff will guide visitors as they experiment with creating paints using

The Museum is offering free admission every Thursday in July. We will have drop-in activities and tours geared towards creative and inquisitive visitors of all ages. Visitors are also invited to join in on guided tours throughout the day offered by Museum staff and volunteers. Paints of the Earth Explore the materials used to create the vibrant colors found in our icons! Museum staff will guide visitors as they experiment with creating paints using

The Museum is offering free admission every Thursday in July. We will have drop-in activities and tours geared towards creative and inquisitive visitors of all ages. Visitors are also invited to join in on guided tours throughout the day offered by Museum staff and volunteers. Paints of the Earth Explore the materials used to create the vibrant colors found in our icons! Museum staff will guide visitors as they experiment with creating paints using