Frick Reopening Date Announced

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY – The Frick Collection on Fifth Avenue will reopen in April 2025 after a significant renovation of the museum, an Upper East Side fixture since 1935.

The updated space will feature revitalized galleries, expanded visitor amenities, and a special lineup of exhibitions and events to celebrate the museum's triumphant return. Sculptor Vladimir Kanevsky’s lifelike porcelain flower arrangements, commissioned for the occasion, will be displayed throughout the museum, echoing the original floral designs that adorned the Frick's rooms when it opened nearly a century ago.

And if you’ve ever longed to ascend the staircase to the second floor, well, you will soon be able to do so. The Frick, known for its impressive collection of European art and its intimate setting – it is quite literally, homey, if your experience of private residences includes magnificent mansions and estates – will reveal new galleries on its second floor. Once the private quarters of the Frick family, these rooms were previously inaccessible to the public and will showcase new acquisitions and favorites from the museum’s collection.

Highlights include the Boucher Room – which returns to its original location upstairs in what was once the former private sitting room of Adelaide Childs Frick, wife of founder Henry Clay Frick – as well as a newly dedicated Cabinet Gallery, which will present rarely-seen drawings by artists such as Degas, Goya, and Whistler.

What about the bowling alley and billiard room? Keep yearning: it remains intact but inaccessible to the public, a representative for the Frick confirmed.

In another major addition, the Frick will open its new 220-seat Stephen A. Schwarzman Auditorium with a weeklong music festival, running from April 26 through May 8. The festival will present a range of performances, from classical to contemporary, taking advantage of the auditorium’s state-of-the-art acoustics.

The renovation also improves access to the Frick Reference Library – now the Frick Research Library – with new entry points on multiple levels and a newly added Education Room designed to serve students, educators, and local audiences with flexible programming spaces. Programs will include lectures, workshops, and hands-on art activities.

For its first special exhibition in its new first-floor galleries the Frick will feature Vermeer’s "Love Letters." That exhibit is set to run from June 18 to Sept. 8, 2025.

More information is available here.