Rockwell Museum, Art museum in downtown Corning, New York State.
The Rockwell Museum is an art museum in downtown Corning, New York, housed in a building from 1893 and focused on art of the American West. Its collections span three floors and include paintings, bronze sculptures, and objects made by Native American peoples.
Robert F. Rockwell Jr. opened the museum in 1976, establishing a new arts institution in the Corning area. In 2015, it became the first Smithsonian Affiliate in New York State outside of New York City.
Works by artists like Frederic Remington and Albert Bierstadt hang alongside contemporary pieces by Native American creators. Visitors moving through the galleries can see how western American landscape painting and indigenous art traditions are shown side by side.
The museum is in downtown Corning and easy to reach on foot from most places in the city center. It is worth setting aside a good amount of time, as the three floors hold a lot to look at.
The building was Corning's City Hall from 1893 to 1974: the ground floor held the fire station, the first floor the city clerk, court, police and jail cells, the second floor council chambers and a dentist's office, and the third floor a public library. Its original bell, hung with twenty 50-pound weights, is now at the current fire station.
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