Nicholas Roerich Museum
Morningside Heights
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Nicholas Roerich Museum is a major center for
the exhibition of paintings by Nicholas Roerich, and makes available
many reproductions of his art and numerous books about his life and
work. The Museum is also a cultural center, presenting a broad program
of concerts and poetry readings. A major aim of the Museum's activities
is to promote awareness of Roerich's ideas about art and culture, as
embodied in the Museum's symbol and its motto, Pax Cultura, Peace
Through Culture.
Nicholas Roerich is known first and foremost
as a Russian-born artist. His paintings, of which there are thousands around the world,
explore the mythic origins, the natural beauty, and the spiritual strivings of humanity
and of the world. The Museum displays approximately two hundred of these works, and keeps
them permanently on display, for visitors who come from around the world. Indeed, for many
of these visitors, the Museum is a destination of great importance; the paintings speak to
them of their own inner yearnings and possible fulfillment. For them, Roerich's paintings
are a kind of teaching--about spiritual development, about culture and its role in human
life, and about opportunities for the achievement of peace in a fractious world.
Image: Nicholas Roerich, Book of Doves. Sketch for fresco. 1922. Tempera on canvas. 76 x 103 cm. State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow
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Tuesday - Sunday, 2 pm - 5 p.m.
Closed Mondays.
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Nicholas Roerich Museum319 West 107th Street
New York, NY 10025
212-864-7752 phone
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