- Vanderbilt Museum
The Suffolk County Vanderbilt Museum is located in Centerport on the North Shore of
Long Island inSuffolk County, New York , USA. It is named forWilliam K. Vanderbilt II and is located on the site of his 43 acre estate. His will dictated that the grounds be used as amuseum , which it became in 1950. Aplanetarium was also constructed (by the county) on the grounds in 1970.The museum complex includes the Gold Coast-era mansion [1910-1936] with furnishings and fine art, a marine museum with marine and natural history specimens (butterflies, birds, shells, mammals and fish), a curator's cottage, a seaplane hangar, a boathouse, gardens, and a collection of ethnographic objects (firearms and swords, ship models, and European, Asian and African objects).
Trivia
*in 1988, the museum temporarily took on a different identity. The estate, called Eagle's Nest, served as a fictitious drug lord's mansion for the filming of
Crocodile Dundee II . According to museum employee Rita Beckman, the cast, including co-starsPaul Hogan andLinda Kozlowski , spent about two weeks filming. To keep from blocking traffic, the crew built a convert|100|yd|m|sing=on replica of the estate's entrance wall and set it up on the golf course. They also built a three-tiered fountain in the courtyard and filmed a key scene in the library. CW Post students were bused in and cast as extras in this sequel to the popularCrocodile Dundee .External links
* [http://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org The Vanderbilt Museum's website]
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