The Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art is the first dedicated LGBTQ art museum in the world with a mission to exhibit and preserve LGBTQ art, and foster the artists who create it.
The Leslie-Lohman Museum embraces the rich creative history of the LGBTQ art community by informing, inspiring, entertaining and challenging all who enter its doors.
The Leslie Lohman Museum is operated by the Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Inc., a non-profit founded in 1987 by Charles W. Leslie and Fritz Lohman who have supported LGBTQ artists for over 30 years. The Leslie Lohman Gay Art Foundation, Inc., is a non-profit organization and is exempt from taxation under section 501(c)3 of the IRS Code.
In the Main Gallery, the calendar of events includes 6-8 major exhibitions a year, film screenings, plays, poetry readings, artist and curator talks, and panel discussions. Other galleries include the Wooster St. Window Gallery, a street-facing gallery featuring work by contemporary, emerging and under-represented LGBTQ artists who address issues of gender, identity, sex and pop culture; and the Prince St. Project Space which hosts the Leslie Lohman Studio and other smaller exhibitions.
The Museum has a collection of over 50,000 works, an artist archive that contains information on over 3,000 LGBTQ artists, both those represented in the collection and others of interest to LGBTQ audiences.
It houses a library of over 2,000 volumes that is the most comprehensive collection of published books, catalogues, and pamphlets on LGBTQ art and also publishes The ARCHIVE, a quarterly journal about LGBTQ art and artists.
The Museum has an online database that allows you to search over 1,000 images in the Museum's permanent collection. Also included on the website is a valuable teaching tool called MILESTONES, a timetable of the history of art from the gay perspective.
The Museum is located at 26 Wooster Street, in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City. Admission is always free, and hours are 12pm-6pm Tuesday through Sunday. The Museum is closed Monday and all major holidays. The Museum can be reached at 212-431-2609.
You are encouraged to contact the Museum with information about gay and lesbian visual arts, both contemporary and from the past, anywhere in the world.
