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The renovation and enhancement of The Frick Collection’s historic buildings represents the most comprehensive upgrade to our facilities since the museum opened nearly ninety years ago, in 1935.
Frick Madison is closed. Our renovated historic buildings reopen early 2025. Explore online!
The Frick Collection was one of the first museums to offer a Virtual Tour in 1998 and due to its popularity we updated and expanded it to include all of the public spaces and gardens.
The Frick Collection is the only museum in North America to present this keenly anticipated touring exhibition of paintings by the important Netherlandish artist Hans Memling (c. 1435–1494).
Take a moment to reflect in the Frick’s Garden Court. This immersive video allows you to enter the leafy sanctuary designed by John Russell Pope for the museum’s opening in 1935. Listen to the burbling fountain or rotate to see Antonio Canova’s Modello for George Washington (1818) in the Oval Room.
Here you can find many ways to experience our exceptional collection, which originated with the Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick. Since 1935, the collection and the Fifth Avenue mansion that houses it have delighted and inspired art enthusiasts from around the world.
Acquired by Henry Clay Frick late in life, the four paintings were commissioned by Boucher’s great patron Madame de Pompadour—the longtime mistress of King Louis XV—to be placed over doors, hence their unusual shape.
While the Frick Art Research Library is closed for renovations, explore a list of e-books and other online resources from the library that offer deep dives into a wide range of artists and artworks from the Frick’s permanent collection.
Enjoy all sixty-five episodes of the Frick’s critically acclaimed, award-winning 2020–21 series Cocktails with a Curator. In each episode, a Frick curator offers insights on a work of art in the collection with a complementary cocktail.
The Frick Collection's mission is: To preserve and display for the public the Collection, and to augment its holdings in fields established by Henry Clay Frick, reflecting the uncompromising levels of quality that he embraced, and maintaining the historic tranquility of Mr. Frick's house.