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 museum stands on ancestral Seneca Nation land, one of the nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, which gives the collection on western American art an added layer of local history. This connection to the region's indigenous past is something many visitors only notice when reading the texts inside.

• Location: Corning
• Inception: 1976
• Address: 111 Cedar St, Corning, NY 14830
• Phone: [phone]
• Website: http://rockwellmuseum.org
• GPS coordinates: 42.14260,-77.05284
• Latest update: March 3, 2026 08:18