The primary mission of the Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is to collect and display fine art and Jewish ceremonial objects and to interpret its collections for the public. The Museum, founded in 1982, and The Art Collection, established in the mid-1970s, provide publicly accessible art programming under the auspices of Hebrew Home at Riverdale, whose cultural programs are a model of universal accessibility.

The Art Collection is comprised of 4,500 modern and contemporary paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints on display throughout the public spaces of the Hebrew Home's 32-acre campus. It includes such artists as Ferber, Nevelson, Warhol, Rivera, Rabin and Shahn, decorative and historic artifacts representing world cultures, and a sculpture garden overlooking the Hudson River and Palisades.