About

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.

We would like to invite all self-identifying Indigenous peoples to access our current exhibitions without charge.

The Institute’s museum and library holdings form the best 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. Although the Albany Institute is best known for its significant Hudson River school paintings, the broad scope of its collections includes fine arts, furnishings, personal objects, documents, manuscripts, photographs, and personal papers used by people of all ages, social classes, economic conditions, and cultural groups. Long-term exhibitions include: “Ancient Egypt,” “Nineteenth-Century American Sculpture: Erastus Dow Palmer, Launt Thompson, Charles Calverley,” and “Traders and Culture: Early Albany and the Formation of American Identity.”