Preview the new interior illustration of the Cole Center, learn about our 2024 exhibitions and consider joining us for an exciting year with a variety of naming opportunities.

Dec-Apr

Book a Private Guide to experience the historic interiors, museum collection and immersive digital experiences. Private Guide tours are available by appointment only, Wednesday through Friday.

Jan-Apr

Our annual Sunday Salons present new ideas in American art with innovative thinkers. The events take place once a month from January through April in the New Studio building on campus.

Coming Soon

Book a Guided Tour on select weekends in January, February and March.

Coming Soon

Browse our online Collection Highlights, a selection from over six hundred objects and two research archives. Many collection items are on view throughout the Cole Site interiors, in historic rooms, as well as within the rotating exhibition Mind Upon Nature: Thomas Cole’s Creative Process.

Spectacular original paintings by Thomas Cole are on view in the artist’s home this season.

Discover digital immersive experiences throughout the authentic historic interiors of the artist’s home. Experiences include paintings that come to life, audio soundscapes, letters that appear on desks and 270-degree floor-to-ceiling projections.

Step into a landscape painting with our program, the Hudson River School Art Trail, which provides maps and directions to visit the places in nature that Thomas Cole and other Hudson River School artists painted.

Visit the Mawignack Preserve – Cole’s favorite walking spot – just down the road and discover new outdoor interpretation organized by the Greene Land Trust in partnership with the Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Greene County Historical Society, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation, and Scenic Hudson.

The gravestones of Thomas Cole, his wife Maria Bartow, and their family are located in the Catskill Village Cemetery, just down the street and walkable from the historic site.

See America’s first canvas with a new scenic walkway connecting the Thomas Cole Site with Frederic Church’s Olana across the Hudson River.

Virtually tour Thomas Cole’s historic Main House and Old Studio. Discover pop-out videos and find the artist’s original letters.

Digital content presenting new perspectives from curators, artists, and community leaders on Thomas Cole’s life and art from the 19th century to today.

Programs, lesson plans and activities for K-12 students that use American art to teach American history.

Explore Thomas Cole’s paintings and writings with scholar analysis on our website explorethomascole.org.

Read Thomas Cole’s Story by the Penguin Random House author and illustrator Hudson Talbott.

Free Web Version

This abbreviated web version of the Guide Book will lead you from space to space. A printed copy of the Guide Book is available in our gift shop and online, here.