Independence Day weekenders can soak up Americana, from Colonial portraiture to quilts, in Manhattan for one last stretch at the American Folk Art Museum's 45 West 53rd St. location. The museum announced on Thursday that it will be moving to its home at 2 Lincoln Square on July 9.

The current building in Midtown, designed by the architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien in 2001, has been sold to the Museum of Modern Art to ease the Folk Art Museum's $32 million debt load.

Among other recent changes, the museum's annual fundraising antiques show will now be run by the Art Fair Company. The inaugural Metropolitan Show, which debuts January 18-22, 2012, at the Metropolitan Pavilion, at 125 West 18th Street in Chelsea, replaces The American Antique Show (TAAS).

Already on view at the Lincoln Square location is the summer exhibition Super Stars, highlighting star-studded quilts from the collection, and the deeply affecting 9/11 National Tribute Quilt.

For the fall, curator Stacy C. Hollander has organized “Life: Real and Imagined—A Decade of Collecting.” On display will be important portraits by 19th-century artists Ammi Phillips, Jacob Maentel, and the husband-and-wife team of Dr. Samuel and Ruth Shute; and contemporary masters including James Castle, Henry Darger, and Martín Ramírez.