{"id":2481,"date":"2025-05-29T11:47:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-29T08:47:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/?p=2481"},"modified":"2025-07-23T22:00:05","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T19:00:05","slug":"the-rubin-museum-of-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/museums\/the-rubin-museum-of-art\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rubin Museum of Art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Address: 140 West 17 th Street New York<\/p>\n

Phone: (212) 620-5000<\/p>\n

Working hours:<\/p>\n

Monday\u00a0Closed<\/p>\n

Tuesday\u00a0Closed<\/p>\n

Wednesday\u00a0Closed<\/p>\n

Thursday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

Friday\u00a011:00 AM – 10:00 PM<\/p>\n

Saturday\/Sunday\u00a011:00 AM – 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

The Mandala Lab is reserved for family\u00a0programming from 1:00 PM -3:00 PM every Sunday.<\/p>\n

The museum is closed for Christmas, Thanksgiving and New Years.<\/span><\/p>\n

The museum closes at 5:00 PM on Christmas\u00a0Eve and New Year’s Eve.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Photo by Dave De Armas<\/p>\n

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ABOUT US<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n
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Founded in 2004, the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art first opened its doors at 150 West 17th Street in Chelsea, New York City. Today we\u2019ve evolved to serve people across the globe, modeling new possibilities for how museums might reach, engage, and serve the public worldwide.<\/p>\n

The Rubin is a global museum dedicated to presenting Himalayan art through exhibitions, participatory experiences, partnerships, and a dynamic digital platform. We bring together diverse perspectives\u2014from Buddhist practitioners to neuroscientists and contemporary artists\u2014to offer insights into the art and its meaning in life today.<\/div>\n

Inspired and informed by Himalayan art, the Rubin invites people to contemplate the human experience and deepen connections with the world around them in order to expand awareness, enhance well-being, and cultivate compassion.<\/p>\n

The Rubin advances scholarship through a series of educational initiatives, grants, a collection sharing program with other museums and institutions, and the stewardship of its collection of nearly 4,000 Himalayan art objects spanning 1,500 years of history\u2014providing unprecedented access and resources to scholars, artists, and students across the globe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Our Story<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (formerly Rubin Museum of Art) was founded in 2004 as a haven for Himalayan art in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City by Shelley and Donald Rubin, who are philanthropists, cultural leaders, and collectors. The opening was the culmination of 30 years of art collecting, six years of planning, and the purchase and renovation of the former Barneys department store at 150 West 17th Street in Manhattan. This new not-for-profit museum dedicated to Himalayan art was the first of its kind in the United States.<\/p>\n

The Museum\u2019s galleries were accompanied by a theater, shop, and Caf\u00e9 Serai, and later an education center was built with classrooms and studios. Over time the Rubin expanded resources for families, teens, and K\u201312 and university students. From the start, the Rubin showcased artworks that had yet to be thoroughly studied outside of the greater Himalayan region, presented bold, experiential programs that engaged leading thinkers and artists across disciplines, and inspired dialogue and personal connections to the ideas inherent in the art.<\/p>\n

The Museum on 17th Street became a beloved and well-respected cultural landmark, deemed \u201cone of the biggest thinking small museums in all of Manhattan\u201d by the\u00a0New York Times<\/i>. Over the course of two decades the Rubin welcomed over 2.5 million visitors, presented over 145 exhibitions, hosted over 6,500 programs, and published 35 scholarly publications.<\/p>\n

Beginning in 2022 the Rubin expanded our reach with projects beyond the Museum walls, with the inaugural\u00a0Nepal Pavilion<\/a>\u00a0at the Venice Biennale; a traveling version of the interactive\u00a0Mandala Lab<\/a>\u00a0installation in Europe; the support of the\u00a0Itumbaha Museum<\/a>, a new museum at a Newar Buddhist monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal; and the launch of\u00a0Project Himalayan Art<\/a>, the organization\u2019s biggest institutional project serving students, educators, and scholars nationally and beyond. These initiatives piloted new ways of fulfilling the Museum\u2019s mission and connecting with audiences across the world.<\/p>\n

Building on the successes of these projects and in the same spirit of innovation, after 20 years, on October 6, 2024, the Rubin closed the physical location on 17th Street to embark on our next chapter as a global museum.<\/p>\n

Today the Rubin continues to be the leading presenter of Himalayan art, with exhibitions, participatory experiences, educational initiatives, and research,\u00a0serving more people than before\u00a0through collaborations and partnerships, digital technologies, and collection sharing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Collection<\/strong><\/header>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The Rubin first opened with an initial gift of more than 1,000 objects from Shelley and Donald Rubin\u2019s personal collection of Himalayan art established over the course of three decades. Along with purchases and additional gifts from the founders and other donors, the Museum\u2019s preeminent collection today includes nearly 4,000 objects.\u00a0The collection features works of great artistic and historical significance that span more than 1,500 years to the present day. Included are works from the Tibetan Plateau, with examples from Northern Indian, Nepalese, Bhutanese, Mongolian, and Chinese culturally related areas.<\/article>\n<\/section>\n
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Information and photos taken from the site:\u00a0rubinmuseum.org<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Address: 140 West 17 th Street New York Phone: (212) 620-5000 Working hours: Monday\u00a0Closed Tuesday\u00a0Closed Wednesday\u00a0Closed Thursday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM Friday\u00a011:00 AM – 10:00 PM Saturday\/Sunday\u00a011:00 AM – 5:00 PM The Mandala Lab is reserved for family\u00a0programming from 1:00 PM -3:00 PM every Sunday. The museum is closed for Christmas, Thanksgiving and New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3817,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2481"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2488,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2481\/revisions\/2488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.camegone.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}