Fenimore Art Museum


5798 State Hwy 80, Cooperstown, NY 13326
Cooperstown, NY 13326

Situated in a lavish setting on the shore of Otsego Lake in Cooperstown, Fenimore Art Museum, features important changing exhibitions each season. This year featuring 80s Pop art icon Keith Haring, renowned American photographer Ansel Adams, author and illustrator Jan Brett, Marc Brown–creator of the children’s book and PBS television show character Arthur, and more. The Museum’s collections include wide-ranging assemblages of American art including folk art; important American 18th- and 19th-century landscape, genre, and portrait paintings; more than 125,000 historic photographs; and the renowned Eugene and Clare Thaw Collection of American Indian Art comprised of nearly 900 art objects representative of a broad geographic range of North American Indian cultures, from the Northwest Coast, Eastern Woodlands, Plains, Southwest, Great Lakes, and Prairie regions.

Website: https://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org

Hours: April 1-May 2: Tues-Sun, 10 am–4 pm (Closed Mondays); May 2-October 11: Open daily, 10 am–5 pm; October 12-December 31: Tues-Sun, 10 am–4 pm (Closed Mondays, Thanksgiving and Christmas).

(Hours subject to change, see website)

Special Instructions: None

Phone: 607-547-1450
Email: [email protected]

COVID-19 Protocols: Fenimore will continue to follow its comprehensive COVID-19 safety plan in accordance with guidelines provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and New York State. The plan ensures all procedures and safeguards meet or exceed the recommended standards of cleanliness, social distancing and reduced contact for both visitors and staff.

To maintain a safe environment for our visitors, face masks are required inside the museum for visitors age 2 and over, social distancing guidelines are stressed inside the galleries, several hand sanitizing stations are available, and staff members are given a health screening assessment each day upon arrival.