Olana: the Persian style home of Hudson River artist Frederic Edwin Church

Visiting Olana

The grounds are open 8:00 am- sunset daily. The house is open for tours Friday through Sunday. No strollers or backpacks please. For more information, please click here.

Learn About Olana

At the epicenter of The Hudson River School of Painting is the Olana House and surrounding landscape. Our events and programs, and museum collections, are open to the visiting public and schools and educators.

Supporting Olana

There are many ways to support Olana

Join the Olana Partnership, volunteer your time, make a tax-deductible donation, purchase from our museum store, or attend one of our Special Events. support olana View our audited financials and year end review.

Organizations That Support Olana

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Events

View from Olana with Superimposed Simulated Nuclear Cooling Tower (detail), 1979, photograph #4363-77, Courtesy of Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US Dept. of Energy

Framing the Viewshed: A Bend
in the River
An Insider's Account of the Hudson Valley's 1979 Nuclear Decision
Saturday, February 25, 2012 | 3pm
Stair Galleries | 549 Warren St, Hudson, NY
Panelists: J. Winthrop Aldrich, Carl Petrich, and Rick Benas
Moderated by Dorothy Heyl

Click here for event details.
Click here to read the press release.

News:

FEC Award Gala featured in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, The Examiner, Bloomberg and Martha Stewart's Blog. To view photos
click here.

Special "Letters of Olana" photography exhibition proceeds to benefit Olana.

Land deal protects view from NY historic site - featured in The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

The Olana Partnership honored Morrison Heckscher and Martha Stewart in NYC on January 18th. Read more in The Wall Street Journal, The Examiner, Bloomberg and Martha Stewart's Blog. To view photos click here.

The Olana Partnership awarded $274k EDC grant towards landscape restoration.

Lonely Planet has named the Hudson Valley the number 2 place to visit in the United States in 2012. Click here to read more.

Olana featured in Antiques & Fine Art Magazine.

Olana Viewshed featured in The New York Times.

The Open Space Institute (OSI) and Scenic Hudson have partnered to protect a 95-acre farm adjacent to the Olana State Historic Site. Click here to read more.

Click here to read more about the Olana Viewshed Symposium.

To read 100 word essays on viewsheds click here.

Read Charles Birnbaum's article in The Huffington Post The Value of View.

Click here to read Patricia R. Everett's article on Olana's exhibition in the 4th of July weekend edition of the Newtown Bee.

A special member benefit is a subscription to The Crayon. Take a look at the winter 2011 edition and become a member to receive a copy.

The Olana Partnership has received support from the Museum Program of the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

Shopping at Olana

Glories of the Hudson

Frederic Church never tired of his views of the Hudson River, documenting his passion for the Hudson in paintings, oil sketches, and drawings. The best of these are reproduced here in 83 illustrations, 69 in full color, some of them published for the first time. 93 pages, hardcover.

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Object of the Month

Object of the Month: February

In the doldrums of a northeastern winter, this delicate butterfly specimen evokes the exotic beauties of the South American climes of its origins.
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