Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum

32-37 Vernon Boulevard (entrance at 9-01 33rd Road), Long Island City (across from Costco and Socrates Sculpture Garden)
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum celebrates the life and work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Noguchi was born in 1904, and continued making sculpture until his death in 1988. His career of more than sixty years intersected some of the crucial persons a... more
The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum celebrates the life and work of Isamu Noguchi (1904-1988). Noguchi was born in 1904, and continued making sculpture until his death in 1988. His career of more than sixty years intersected some of the crucial persons and places of our time.

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. On exhibition are more than 240 works, including stone, metal, wood and clay sculptures, models for public projects and gardens, dance sets, and Noguchi's Akari light sculptures. Housed in thirteen galleries within a converted factory building, and encircling a garden containing major granite and basalt sculptures, the museum presents one of the most dramatic installations of art in New York City.

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Astoria Description

Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum is located in the Astoria neighborhood of Manhattan. Astoria is the western-most neighborhood in Queens, running from the East River west to Northern Boulevard and 49th Street, and from Ditmars Boulevard south to Queens Plaza. It is just north of Long Island City, of which Astoria once was and is sometimes still considered to be a part, and is bounded on the north by Steinway and by Woodside on the east.

Nestled in one of the most suburban boroughs, Astoria peeks across the East River at Manhattan from its squat houses and commercial buildings. Largely residential, the neighborhood has gone through the usual waves of immigrants over the course of the centuries; first, the Germans, then the Italians and Jews, a massive and significant influx of Greeks, and most recently, Middle Eastern, African, and Eastern Europeans have made Astoria their new home. For a neighborhood that takes its name from John Jacob Astor—once the richest man in America—it remains remarkably middle-class, with a strong sense of community and ethnic heritage, making it a very tight-knit neighborhood.

There are, of course, many great ethnic restaurants of all stripes in Astoria, from favorites like Uncle George's Greek Tavern, Il Bambino, and the Bohemian Beer Hall & Garden to Malagueta, Mojave, and The Queens Kickshaw. For drinking, there's the Quays Pub, cocktails at Sweet Afton, and The Barn. For attractions, there's the wonder Noguchi Garden Museum, showcasing the amazing work of the famed sculptor, even more artistic action at Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Museum Of The Moving Image.

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32-37 Vernon Boulevard (entrance at 9-01 33rd Road), Long Island City (across from Costco and Socrates Sculpture Garden)
Long Island City, NY 11106
(718) 204-7088
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Admission And Tickets

$10 - Adults
$5 - Seniors
$5 - Students
Members & NYC Public High School students: Free
First Friday of each month: pay what you wish.

This Week's Hours

Wed-Fri: 10:00am-5:00pm
Sat-Sun: 11:00am-6:00pm

Nearby Subway

  • to Broadway

@NoguchiMuseum

RT @_WhiteCube: ‘Noguchi Subscapes’ at @NoguchiMuseum is a survey of #IsamuNoguchi’s particular interest in the unseen and hidden. The exh… December 07, 2022

Currently in the Noguchi Museum’s Area 7, 'Bird Song' breathes new life into a form like Constantin Brâncuși's ‘Endless Column,’ imagining it as a tree full of birds.
https://t.co/0NcvplX5aQ November 08, 2022

The garden of columns and earth forms went unbuilt, but it became an important source of ideas.
https://t.co/e1KmoNngLZ November 08, 2022

Before it was cast in bronze in 1985, 'Bird Song' was a stone element for the second of Noguchi's proposals for the courtyard of the Lever Brothers building in New York (1952).
https://t.co/H2zdImM2gt November 08, 2022

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