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 Tuesday 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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UPCOMING PROGRAMS

Exhibition Openings:

Maine Sublime: Frederic Edwin Church's Landscapes of Mount Desert and Mount Katahdin
Evelyn and Maurice Sharp Gallery
June 9-October 27

ART MEETS ART
Perspectives On and Beyond Olana
Coachman's House Gallery
June 9-October 27

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July 8-12- Maine Camping Theme
July 22-26- International Arts
Panorama 2013
Olana's week-long summer program for children.
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September 17-19
Painting the "Living Landscape" of Frederic Church with Evelyn Dunphy
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Frederic Church Goes to Scotland:
Olana Loans Works to the National Gallery

"Through American Eyes Frederic Church and the Landscape Oil Sketch"

Scottish National Gallery
May 11-September 8, 2013

To learn more about the National Gallery exhibition click here.
To read more about works from Olana on view click here.

Olana's Landscape and Viewshed have been awarded two major grants. To learn more click here.

Are you a TD Bank customer? Help The Olana Partnership raise money through the TD Bank Affinity Program. It's free and only requires account holders to designate Olana as their preferred charity by calling 888-751-9000. TD Bank is a proud sponsor of the 2012 Restoring Olana Exhibition and Wagon House Education Programming.

News:

A lovely article in the Wall Street Journal on The Olana Partnership's 2013 honoree Stephen Hannock.

The Hudson River School Art Trail receives mention in National Geographic Traveler.

The Olana Partnership remembers Maurice Sendak

Capital Region Economic Development Council Announces Historic Preservation Projects Underway at Olana State Historic Site.

Cultural Organizations Team Up to Present Eight Major Speakers

"This view and this painting changed history."

Gala For Historical Preservation Invokes A Famed American Artist

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

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

The Hudson Valley named #2 in TOP 10 U.S. travel destinations for 2012.

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

Olana: Architecture and Landscape as Art

Called by Church "the Center of the World," Olana is a personal vision of harmony between man and the American landscape. This book tells the remarkable story. 103 pages, paperback.

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Object of the Month

Object of the Month: June

Olana's latest exhibition Maine Sublime opens Sunday June 9th and features this beautiful and dramatic oil study Sunset, Bar Harbor (1854).
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Hudson River School Art Trail

Art Trail

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