Hicksville Gregory Museum — Attraction in Town of Oyster Bay

The museum is located inside a historical Courthouse in Hicksville NY. It is small but packed with many fascinating artifacts. I was a bit disappointed to discover that some of the bigger artifacts were in fact reproductions. The walls are lined with beautiful wooden and glass showcases with plenty of lighting. Every artifact has its own information card naming the item and where it came from. It also retained , as part of the old courthouse, one of the actual jailcells that were used during its time. The museum curator and his assistant are chock full of information. Maybe too much information. They walked us around and gave detailed information on many of the bigger points of interest. However they monopolized our visit and continued to talk long after it seemed acceptable for them to do so. I would have prefered a brief overview and then being allowed to wander at our leisure. All in all if you can see yourself past that there are some really nice things...

As of right now it is Hicksville's only remaining extant museum, situated in the historic Heitz Place Courthouse. This wonderful place hosts community flea market and craft fairs every Saturday in the Month of June this year and occasionally other weekends along with Open Houses. So if you haven't visited yet, make sure to come in one of these weekends. Hicksville Residents get free admission year round and staff is knowledge. So make sure to come visit it. Right now is the 60th anniversary. So there is no better time to visit than these Saturdays.

Museums like these offer so many benefits and services to their communities. This one also offers rock and arthropod identification services by way of the curator for the former and staff Entomologist for the latter. Besides Stonebrook there is no museum on Long Island that offers so much in terms of rocks...

I have never had a more immersive museum experience in my life. The Hicksville Gregory Museum has an incredible collection presented with the humility and intimacy that only a small town museum can provide. As soon as we walked into the door we were greeted and guided through every room of the museum. The curator's detailed description of even the most mundane artifacts settled us into a intellectual cradle we had not experienced since the days of science fairs, Bill Nye, and field trips to the observatory. Engaging, curious, and passionate, our guide knew how to teach. The jaded, post-graduates we were melted away to reveal a couple of nerdy kids who would have loved come back to this museum...