# American Folk Art Museum Museum in Upper West Side, New York City. - Address: 2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023 - Hours: Wed–Sun 11:30–6 - Website: https://folkartmuseum.org - Directions: - On the map: https://onview.so/manhattan/map/american-folk-art-museum Closed until October 8 while new shows are installed. Reopens Friday, October 9 with Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art and Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States, both to February 28. ## Exhibitions ### *Locating Girlhood: Place and Identity in Early American “Schoolgirl” Art* Group exhibition · Oct 9, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · on view, just opened Needlework pictures and other ornamental arts made by American girls in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The exhibition looks at so-called schoolgirl art, the embroidered pictures and decorative objects young American women made as part of their education. It treats the genre as a way into how girls understood their place and identity, a subject the museum says has received little study. Among the works is a needlework picture attributed to Faith Trumbull (1743–1775). The museum describes the show as one of the most significant presentations of the subject in recent years. Full details: [folkartmuseum.org](https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/american-folk-art-museum/locating-girlhood-place-and-identity-in-early-american-schoolgirl-art ### *Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States* Group exhibition · Oct 9, 2026 – Feb 28, 2027 · on view, just opened Works from the museum’s own collection on how vernacular art shaped an American sense of self. Timed to the United States semiquincentennial, the show draws on the American Folk Art Museum’s collections to trace links between vernacular art and the making of a national identity. One featured work is Miss Liberty Reaches Out to Welcome the Persecuted by Reverend Benjamin Franklin Perkins (1904–1993). Full details: [folkartmuseum.org](https://folkartmuseum.org/exhibitions/) On On View: https://onview.so/manhattan/american-folk-art-museum/folk-nation-crafting-patriotism-in-the-united-states --- On View's listing, as of Tuesday, October 13, 2026. Every gallery and museum in New York City: https://onview.so/manhattan.md. All of On View: https://onview.so/llms.txt