Long Island Region

 
The Little Ladies Club -

Dinosaur Walk Museum - Exciting collection of over 50 life-size dinosaurs sculptures reconstructed from actual dinosaur bones, high-definition movie theatre featuring educational films, hands-on activities for children.

Airport Playhouse - The Airport Playhouse is a year-round professional, not-for-profit theater offering an annual roster of 10 full scale productions and an array of children's programs, fund-raising activities, special events, dinner theater packages and theater classes.

Tilles Center for the Performing Arts - Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University in Brookville, is Long Island's premier concert hall. Tilles Center presents over 70 events each season in music, dance and theater, featuring world-renowned artists. The Center is also the theatrical home for many of Long Island's leading arts organizations, including the Long Island Philharmonic.

Stony Brook Village - Stony Brook Village is a quaint, colonial village with some 45 specialty shops, restaurants and services. Winding pathways are dotted with old fashioned street lamps adorned with hanging flower baskets. Perched in the pediment of the post office is a wood-carved mechanical eagle with a twenty-foot wing span.

Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research - The Riverhead Foundation for Marine Research conducts research and education programs about the region's marine habitats. It also operates whale watching and seal cruises each year.

Long Island Museum - The Long Island Museum features art, carriage and history museums on nine park-like acres in the historic village of Stony Brook, New York. Landscaped gardens frame 18th- and 19th-century buildings and a Gift and Book Shop.

Long Island Children's Museum - The Long Island Children's Museum is a hands-on museum for kids and their grownups. You'll find places to play, learn and have fun.

Long Island Adventureland - Since 1962 Adventureland has always been bringing new family fun each and every year to families throughout the Long Island and the Metro Area. Adventureland offers 25 rides, arcade, mini-golf and plenty of entertainment for the whole family.

Hofstra Museum - The Hofstra Museum is an educational institution committed to the collection, study, interpretation, conservation and exhibition of objects with aesthetic and cultural value. The Hofstra Museum is the custodian of the Museum's permanent collection of paintings, sculptures, works on paper, decorative arts, and ethnographic objects of African, Asian and pre-Columbian origin.

Guild Hall - Guild Hall serves its communities as a cultural center for the visual, performing and literary arts through providing an art exhibition program which addresses the cultural enrichment and educational needs of the community; theater programming which enlightens, educates and entertains; and events which link the museum and theater in thematic and interdisciplinary presentations.

Railroad Museum of Long Island - The Railroad Museum of Long Island is a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of railroad history on Long Island. The museum features a variety of steam engines and diesel engines.

Fun 4all, Inc. - Fun4all is half an acre of indoor, air-conditioned fun for children ages one to twelve with adult supervision. Fun4all features slides and towers, a rock wall climb, a basketball court, ball pits and tunnels, preschool play areas and a quiet area for younger adventurers, a huge indoor sand room, a convenient snack bar, game room with redemption, and more.

Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum - The Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum collects, preserves, and exhibits objects and documents pertinent to whaling, especially the regional whaling history of Long Island, whale conservation, and the history of Cold Spring Harbor as a maritime port.

BNL Science Museum - BNL's Science Museum offers hands-on science for students from first grade through eighth.

Long Island Game Farm - Come explore nature trails that lead to over 75 different species of exotic and domestic animals.  You'll see animals like Ring-tailed Lemurs, buffalo, squirrel monkeys, cougars, giraffe, zebra, ostrich, and alligators.  Stop by one of the petting zoos and feed the baby animals or see a variety of newborns in the nursery.

Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium - The Cold Spring Harbor Fish Hatchery & Aquarium center is dedicated to educating its visitors about the freshwater ecosystems of New York. The Hatchery is proud of having the largest living collection of New York State freshwater reptiles, fish and amphibians. Visitors are given a self guided tour sheet and can purchase food to feed the hungry trout.

Montauk Point Lighthouse Museum - Montauk Point Lighthouse is the oldest lighthouse in New York State. The Lighthouse was authorized by the Second Congress, under President George Washington in 1792. The museum which is located in the 1860 Keepers house, displays an assortment of many historical documents, and photographs.

Old Westbury Gardens - Designed in 1906 by the English designer George A. Crawley for Mr. and Mrs. John Shafer Phipps and their children, the magnificent Charles II-style mansion is nestled amid 150 acres, featuring carefully planned formal gardens and landscaped grounds interspersed with woodlands, ponds and lakes.

Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum - The Vanderbilt Museum features an elegant Mansion, a Marine Museum and natural history collections, a state-of-the-art Planetarium, and 43 acres of landscaped Park grounds.

Planting Fields Arboretum - Planting Fields Arboretum State Historic Park is one of the outstanding public gardens and historic estates in the United States. It serves as a quiet oasis for the contemplation as well as a site for cultural, architectural and horticultural activities. The arboretum is a natural sanctuary, a living outdoor classroom and a unique teaching facility for adults and children alike.

The Loft Theatre at Dowling College - Dowling College's Loft Theatre hosts several productions from September through June at the Performing Arts Center on the Oakdale, NY campus.  Most events are free and open to the public, however reservations are recommended.  For more information, call the box office at (631) 244-5037.

Greenport Harbor Tours - Enjoy Harbor Tours of Greenport, NY in the elegance of GLORY Long Island's Only Electric Powered Passenger Vessel.