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The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum officially opened to the public on May 11, 1985. Learn more about the making of the Museum here. Seasonal until 1999, significant renovations of the main building were completed in 2004 and the Museum has been open to the public year-round since.
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The Noguchi Museum (chartered as The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum) is a museum and sculpture garden at 32-37 Vernon Boulevard in the Long Island City neighborhood of Queens in New York City, designed and created by the Japanese American sculptor Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988).
Learn about the making of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, the first museum in the United States to be founded, designed and installed by a living artist for the display of their work.
The resulting “sort of museum,” as he called it, began accepting private visits by appointment in the late spring of 1983. Two years later, on May 11, 1985, The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum formally opened to the public on a seasonal basis with limited hours.
Noguchi's desire to share his work with a broad public audience led to the opening of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in 1985. The permanent home of The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum displays a comprehensive collection of artwork by Noguchi in a tranquil setting created by the artist.
Opened in 1985 as the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum, the Museum encompasses 2,500 square meters of both indoor and outdoor exhibition space that offers visitors a priceless opportunity to contemplate and experience Noguchi’s work close at hand.
This unique museum displays the artwork of renowned sculptor Isamu Noguchi. The museum, which is actually his former studio, boasts over 250 original stone, metal, wood and clay sculptures,...
