Entering
the Museum, visitors leave the busy thoroughfare of Northern Boulevard,
go under a narrow railroad overpass, then pass a small brick gate
house. From that moment, each view contains visual surprises:
l45 acres of rolling lawn, a formal garden, specimen trees and
branches, and then Roy Lichtenstein's 3l foot tall Modern Head,
an enormous steel sculpture that looks toward the main building.
Strolling through the grounds visitors encounter other environmental
sculptures, each placed to visually interact with its accompanying
natural scene.
Our "Museum Without Walls" contains major works
by:
Allen Bertoldi,
Fernando Botero,
Alexander Calder,
Chaim Gross,
Masayuki Nagare,
Reuben Nakian,
Marino Marini,
Tom Otterness
Richard Serra,
Mark DiSuvero,
Tony Smith among others.
With more than 50 sculptures, the "Museum Without
Walls"
is one of the largest publicly-accessible outdoor sculpture
gardens on the east coast. The Museum's 145 acre landscape
provides the perfect setting for the works, many of which
are owned by the Nassau County Museum. Others are on extended
loans from such prestigious institutions as the Metropolitan
Museum of Art and The Museum of Modern Art.
