The American Folk Art Museum is a museum on Manhattan's Upper West Side dedicated to self-taught and folk art. It traces its origins to a provisional charter granted in 1961 as the Museum of Early American Folk Arts, whose first exhibition was held on West 53rd Street, and it adopted its current name in 2001 to reflect a broader, international view of folk art. The museum's collection of roughly 7,500 objects, built largely through donations, spans the 18th century to the present and includes early American portraits, quilts, and furniture alongside work by contemporary self-taught artists, including the largest archive of material by Henry Darger. Admission is free, and the museum serves as both an exhibition space and a scholarly resource for researchers and educators.