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Hofstra University Museum is the art museum of Hofstra University, located in Hempstead, New York in Long Island.
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The museum has two galleries on campus: the Emily Lowe Gallery and the David Filderman Gallery. The museum and the Emily Lowe Gallery were established in 1963, and have been an active presence in the University for more than 50 years. The David Filderman Gallery was added to the museum in 1991. The Hofstra University Museum is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), and is also accredited by the Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG).
The Hofstra University Museum holds a collection of more than 5,000 art and ethnographic objects dating from 5,000 BCE to the contemporary period and representing six continents. The collection has grown primarily through gifts since the founding of Hofstra University in 1935, prior to the establishment of the museum, and there have been many local contributors to the museum’s collection. The museum is noteworthy for African art and objects; Asian art is another area of strength with works dating from the seventh to the twentieth century.
Photographs in the collection include works of Berenice Abbott, Lucien Clergue, Danny Lyon, August Sander, Andy Warhol, and Edward Weston. The Hofstra University Museum also has an early Gauguin oil painting, Portrait of a Woman (1881–82), works by George Grosz, Conrad Felixmüller, Johan Barthold Jongkind, John Thomas Peele, Georges Rouault, Joseph Stella, Jane Peterson, and Alfred Maurer.
Students and faculty in a variety of disciplines use the exhibitions and collections to connections with their classes each semester.
The museum offers public programs for families, children and adults in their community, offering what are referred to as Global Explorations through direct study of works in the collection.