Address / locations
(Locations and Directions)
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180 Little Neck Rd Centerport, NY 11721
Centerport, NY
Business Hours
(Please Call to Confirm)
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monday
closed
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tuesday
10:00am-5:00pm
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wednesday
10:00am-5:00pm
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thrusday
10:00am-5:00pm
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friday
10:00am-5:00pm
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saturday
10:00am-5:00pm
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sunday
10:00am-5:00pm
About Vanderbilt Museum
Specialties: The Vanderbilt Museum is a natural-history museum, historic mansion, planetarium and park located on the 43-acre summer estate of railroad heir and global explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (1878-1944). The estate, Eagle's Nest, is an excellent example of the storied Long Island Gold Coast era, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Vanderbilt is engaged in e...
Specialties: The Vanderbilt Museum is a natural-history museum, historic mansion, planetarium and park located on the 43-acre summer estate of railroad heir and global explorer William K. Vanderbilt II (1878-1944). The estate, Eagle's Nest, is an excellent example of the storied Long Island Gold Coast era, and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Vanderbilt is engaged in education, collections, and programming.
The state-of-the-art Charles and Helen Reichert Planetarium is a popular year-round venue for education, live music, and entertainment, as well as for educational programming for schools.
The Vanderbilt, opened to the public in 1950, just celebrated its 65th anniversary. Established in 1950. William K. Vanderbilt II, the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt (who created the family fortune by building the New York Central Railroad and trans-Atlantic shipping enterprises), built his Eagle's Nest estate from 1910 to 1936. Willie K., as he was known to family and friends, explored the globe in his ocean-going yachts. He brought back thousands of marine, insect and bird specimens, and these collections formed the basis of his marine museum and natural-history galleries.
Vanderbilt willed his mansion, estate and museum to Suffolk County, NY, and the complex opened as the Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum in 1950. The Planetarium, created in 1971, was dedicated to Vanderbilt's love of science and use of celestial navigation during his circumnavigations of the globe.
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