Dia Beacon

Walk through a 1929 Nabisco box-printing plant filled with large installations by Warhol, Serra, Flavin and Heizer.

3 Beekman St · Beacon, NY

About Dia Beacon

Dia Beacon fills a former Nabisco box-printing plant built in 1929, renovated with artist Robert Irwin and opened as a museum in 2003. Its 240,000 square feet of galleries hold long-term installations, including Andy Warhol's Shadows, Richard Serra's Torqued Ellipses, Dan Flavin's fluorescent light works and Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West. The museum is a short walk from the Beacon Metro-North station, about 60 miles north of New York City.

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