Hispanic Society of America

Hispanic Society of America
Hispanic Society museum building on Audubon Terrace
Hispanic Society of America is located in Manhattan
Hispanic Society of America
Location of the Hispanic Society in New York City
Hispanic Society of America is located in New York
Hispanic Society of America
Hispanic Society of America (New York)
Hispanic Society of America is located in the United States
Hispanic Society of America
Hispanic Society of America (the United States)
EstablishedMay 18, 1904; 120 years ago (1904-05-18)
LocationNew York City
Coordinates40°50′01″N 73°56′47″W / 40.833521°N 73.946514°W / 40.833521; -73.946514
TypeArt museum
Research library
Collection size6,800 paintings
1,000 sculptures
175,000 photographs
250,000 books
Visitors20,000
DirectorGuillaume Kientz
Public transit accessSubway: "1" train at 157th Street
Bus: Bx6, Bx6 SBS, M4, M5, M100
WebsiteOfficial website Edit this at Wikidata
The Hispanic Society's 1930 north building (left) and sculptures
Certificate of membership for Benito Pérez Galdós

The Hispanic Society of America operates a museum and reference library for the study of the arts and cultures of Spain and Portugal and their former colonies in Latin America, the Spanish East Indies, and Portuguese India. Despite the name, it has never functioned as a learned society.

Founded in 1904 by philanthropist Archer M. Huntington, the institution continues to operate at its original location in a 1908 Beaux Arts building on Audubon Terrace in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City. A second building, on the north side of the terrace, was added in 1930. Exterior sculpture in front of that building includes work by Anna Hyatt Huntington and nine major reliefs by the Swiss-American sculptor Berthold Nebel, a commission that took ten years to complete. The Hispanic Society complex was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 2012. In 2021, the museum expanded into the former home of the Museum of the American Indian, adjacent to the museum's original building.