The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum enters Phase 4 of the New York State and Suffolk County reopening on Saturday, July 11. Now, visitors will be able to enjoy more Vanderbilt attractions: the first floor of the Hall of Fishes marine museum; the Habitat and Stoll Wing animal dioramas; and the first-floor natural-history and cultural-artifact galleries...Read More

Transformed Gardens on View through September Eleven local nurseries and garden designers, plus the Museum’s corps of volunteer gardeners are taking part in the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum’s third annual Gardeners Showcase. They redesigned and transformed garden areas, planted new perennials, annuals, shrubs, and trees—and enhanced the beauty and ambience of William K. Vanderbilt II’s...Read More

Konica Minolta Projector Morphs into Comic Strip and Show Presenter Dave Bush, director of the Reichert Planetarium at the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum, was shutting down all the systems in the William and Mollie Rogers Theater on the night before the Museum closed officially at the start of the Covid-19 quarantine. “I was turning off...Read More

Saturday, May 30 Pop Up Prana Yoga and the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum again will present two FREE morning sessions on Saturday, May 30. The first is an all-level, beginner-friendly yoga class from 10:00 to 11:00 am via Zoom, followed by an advanced yoga session from 11:00 am to 12:00 pm. To access the classes,...Read More

Two friends on the staff of the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum are engaged in a poetry-photo challenge. Their goal is to lift the spirits of their quarantined colleagues. Ed Clampitt has been a member of the Museum’s security staff for four years. He challenged Ellen Mason, a volunteer tour guide for 14 years, to write...Read More