The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County, and features the only public planetarium in the county. While often considered an art museum due to its extensive collection of Hudson River School paintings, the museum also presents exhibits on the history, science and heritage of the region.
- Venue
- Hudson River Museum
- Address
- 511 Warburton Avenue
- Town
- Yonkers, US
The Hudson River Museum, located in Trevor Park in Yonkers, New York, is the largest museum in Westchester County, and features the only public planetarium in the county. While often considered an art museum due to its extensive collection of Hudson River School paintings, the museum also presents exhibits on the history, science and heritage of the region. The Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums, since 1974. Founded in 1919 by Edwin C. Mott as the Yonkers Museum in a room at Yonkers City Hall, the collection initially featured minerals but grew to include zoological specimens, paintings, statuary and other eclectic objects. Photographer Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr., a lifelong resident of Yonkers, also played a key role in the creation of the museum, as did sculptor Isidore Konti, and George J. Stengel. Renamed the Yonkers Museum of Science and the Arts, it was relocated in 1924 to Glenview, the former Gilded Age mansion of Wall Street financier John Bond Trevor. The home was built in 1877 from a design by American architect Charles W. Clinton. The rooms feature carved woodwork by Philadelphia cabinetmaker Daniel Pabst. Around 1940 the museum was renamed the Hudson River Museum of Yonkers (eventually shortened to the Hudson River Museum). In 1969 a larger and more modern facility was built adjoining the mansion for $1.8 million. This included galleries, a planetarium and a branch of the Yonkers Public Library. A few years later, six ground floor rooms of the Glenview house were restored with 19th-century furniture and decor. (The original furnishings were either sold off or removed when the city of Yonkers acquired the building.) In 1972 Glenview was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In June 2023, the museum opened a new 12,000 sq ft (1,100 m2) west wing overlooking the Hudson River. It includes new exhibition spaces, a 100-seat auditorium, a Community and Partnership Gallery, and art storage space. The museum has had a planetarium c