About

The Institute’s museum and library holdings form one of the most significant collections in the United States documenting the life and culture of the Upper Hudson Valley region from the late seventeenth century to the present day. The broad scope of its collections includes paintings, sculptures, furniture and furnishings, prints, drawings and watercolors, antiquities, textiles and costumes, manuscripts, photographs, and more. Long-term exhibitions include The Hudson River School: Landscape Paintings from the Albany Institute, Ancient Egypt, and Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture.

It is with gratitude and humility that we acknowledge that we are learning, speaking and gathering on the ancestral homelands of the Muh-he-con-ne-ok or Mohican people, who are the indigenous peoples of this land. Despite tremendous hardship in being forced from here, today their community resides in Wisconsin and is known as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community Band of Mohican Indians. We pay honor and respect to their ancestors past and present as we commit to building a more inclusive and equitable space for all.