Name
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Image
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Location
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County
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Region
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Type
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Summary
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1805 Frisbie House
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Salisbury Center
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Herkimer
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Adirondack Region
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Local history
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Operated by the Salisbury Historical Society
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1812 Homestead Farm and Museum
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Willsboro
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Essex
|
Adirondack Region
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Agriculture
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Recreates daily farm life in the early 19th century
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1863 Schoolhouse
|
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Deerpark
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Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
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1890 House Museum
|
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Cortland
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Cortland
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Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
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website, focuses on Victorian life
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Adirondack History Center Museum
|
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Elizabethtown
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Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
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website, operated by the Essex County Historical Society
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Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts
|
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Blue Mountain Lake
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Hamilton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
website
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Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Farm
|
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Croghan
|
Lewis
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Adirondack Mennonite Heritage Association & Historical Society, 19th-century house and farm buildings with exhibits about early Amish-Mennonite settlers in the area
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Adirondack Experience
|
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Blue Mountain Lake
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Hamilton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Outdoor recreation, boats and boating, transportation, fine art, work and industry, tourism, and community life
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Adsit Log Cabin
|
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Willsboro
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
18th-century log cabin
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Afton Historical Museum
|
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Afton
|
Chenango
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Afton Historical Society
|
Agricultural Memories Museum
|
|
Penn Yan
|
Yates
|
Finger Lakes
|
Agriculture
|
Antique farm tractors, farm equipment, carriages, toy tractors, open by appointment[1]
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Akin Free Library
|
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Pawling
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Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Multiple
|
Library with museum of local history operated by the Pawling Historical Society and the Olive Gunnison Natural History Museum
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Akwesasne Cultural Center
|
|
Hogansburg
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Native American
|
|
Albany Center Gallery
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
Contemporary art
|
Albany Institute of History & Art
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Multiple
|
Art, local history, founded in 1791
|
Albany Pine Bush Discovery Center
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Natural history
|
Natural history of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve
|
Alfred Ceramic Art Museum
|
|
Alfred
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Part of Alfred University, historic and contemporary ceramic and glass objects
|
Alice T. Miner Museum
|
|
Chazy
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
1824 Colonial Revival house with period furnishings
|
Alling Coverlet Museum
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Textile
|
website, coverlets date from the 1830s to the 1880s and quilts, operated by Historic Palmyra
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American Italian Museum & Cultural Center
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Ethnic
|
website
|
American Maple Museum
|
|
Croghan
|
Lewis
|
Adirondack Region
|
Food and drink
|
website
|
American Museum of Cutlery
|
|
Cattaraugus
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Industry
|
Examples of knives, swords, edged tools and weapons[2]
|
Ames Museum
|
|
Ames
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Local history
|
|
Anderson Falls Heritage Museum
|
|
Keeseville
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Anderson Falls Heritage Society[3]
|
Antique Boat Museum
|
|
Clayton
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Maritime
|
|
Arcade Historical Society Museum
|
|
Arcade
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, also known as the Gibby House
|
Arkell Museum
|
|
Canajoharie
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Multiple
|
American art and history
|
Arnot Art Museum
|
|
Elmira
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
Includes 17th to 19th-century European paintings, and 19th and 20th-century American art, 21st-century contemporary representational art
|
Art Museum at SUNY Potsdam
|
|
Potsdam
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Art
|
Also known as Gibson Gallery, part of State University of New York at Potsdam
|
Arts Center of Yates County
|
|
Penn Yan
|
Yates
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, arts center with exhibit gallery
|
Ashford Historical Society Museum
|
|
West Valley
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Open by appointment[4]
|
AWA Wireless Museum
|
|
Bloomfield
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Technology
|
website, vintage radio equipment, operated by the Antique Wireless Association
|
Avon Preservation and Historical Society Museum
|
|
Avon
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Babbie Rural & Farm Learning Museum
|
|
Peru
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Agriculture
|
website, rural farm buildings, equipment and tools
|
Bainbridge Museum
|
|
Bainbridge
|
Chenango
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
photos, operated by the Bainbridge Historical Society
|
Bannerman Castle
|
|
Pollepel Island
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Tours of the early 20th-century castle house, part in ruins, accessible by boat
|
Barker Historical Museum
|
|
Fredonia
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
[5]
|
Bedford Museum
|
|
Bedford
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website Archived 2010-08-04 at the Wayback Machine, operated by the Bedford Historical Society, includes the restored 1787 Court House and local history exhibits, also operates the 1829 School House
|
Bement-Billings Farmstead
|
|
Newark Valley
|
Tioga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Newark Valley Historical Society, early 19th-century period house and farmstead, costumed docents with craft demonstrations
|
Bemus Point Historical Museum
|
|
Bemus Point
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Bemus Point Historical Society[6]
|
Benjamin and Dr. Edgar R. Codeld Judaic Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Judaica
|
Located in Temple Beth Zion, features over 1,000 Judaic artifacts dating from the 10th century, also known as the Codeld Judaic Museum
|
Benjamin Long Homestead
|
|
Tonawanda
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Historical Society of the Tonawandas, 19th-century house
|
Benjamin Patterson Inn
|
|
Corning
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Open air
|
Operated by the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society, complex includes Benjamin Patterson Inn, Wixson Road Log Cabin, Blacksmith Shop, Starr Barn, Browntown Schoolhouse
|
Best House and Medical Exhibit
|
|
Middleburgh
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Former country doctor's home with medical exhibits, life from the 1870s to 1940s
|
Beth Joseph Synagogue
|
|
Tupper Lake
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Judaica
|
|
Bevier House Museum
|
|
Marbletown
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Home of the Ulster County Historical Society, stone house dating from the 17th century
|
Big Flats Historical Society Museum
|
|
Big Flats
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Big Springs Museum
|
|
Caledonia
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Big Springs Historical Society
|
Binghamton University Art Museum
|
|
Binghamton
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Art
|
Part of Binghamton University
|
Blenheim-Gilboa Visitors Center
|
|
North Blenheim
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Science
|
Energy and electricity
|
Blockhouse Museum & Historic Park
|
|
Brewerton
|
Oswego
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Fort Brewerton Historical Society, reconstruction of a late 18th-century log block house
|
Bluff Point Lighthouse
|
|
Valcour Island
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Lighthouse
|
Operated by the Clinton County Historical Association, exhibits about the lighthouse and local history and natural history
|
Boldt Castle
|
|
Alexandria Bay
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Historic house
|
Early 20th-century castle house
|
Bolton Historical Museum
|
|
Bolton Landing
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Historical Society of the Town of Bolton
|
Book of Mormon Historic Publication Site
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Religious
|
Historic print shop of E. B. Grandin, first publisher of the Book of Mormon
|
Boonville Black River Canal Museum
|
|
Boonville
|
Oneida
|
Adirondack Region
|
Canals
|
website, history of the Black River Canal
|
Boscobel
|
|
Cold Spring
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
19th-century mansion and estate
|
Brain Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Medical
|
website, also known as the Museum of Neuroanatomy, collection of brain specimens, part of University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences
|
Brick Church Museum
|
|
Galen
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Galen Historical Society
|
Brick Tavern Stand
|
|
Montour Falls
|
Schuyler
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Schuyler County Historical Society
|
Bridge House Museum
|
|
Phoenix
|
Oswego
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
website
|
Bronck House
|
|
Coxsackie
|
Greene
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
17th-century Dutch homestead, operated by the Greene County Historical Society
|
Brookfield Museum
|
|
Brookfield
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Town of Brookfield Historical Society
|
Brookside Museum
|
|
Ballston Spa
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Home of the Saratoga County Historical Society
|
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Modern and contemporary art; formerly known as the Buffalo Albright-Knox Gallery
|
Buffalo and Erie County Naval & Military Park
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Maritime
|
Home to several decommissioned US Naval vessels including the Cleveland-class cruiser USS Little Rock, the Fletcher-class destroyer USS The Sullivans, and the submarine USS Croaker
|
Buffalo Fire Historical Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Firefighting
|
|
Buffalo Harbor Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Maritime
|
website, operated by the Lower Lakes Marine Historical Society, history of the Port of Buffalo, its harbor, waterways and their role in the development of the economies of the Niagara Frontier
|
Buffalo History Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Local history, industry, Native Americans, pioneers, ethnic heritage and culture, 19th-century shops and businesses
|
Buffalo Motorcycle Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Transportation - Motorcycle
|
website Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine
|
Buffalo Museum of Science
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Science
|
Themes include science, animals, astronomy, the science of technology, health
|
Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
|
|
Amherst
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Open air
|
12 historic buildings including homes, one-room schoolhouses, a barbershop, and a church, formerly the Amherst Museum
|
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburgh Railway Station
|
|
Orchard Park
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Railroad
|
Operated by the Western New York Railway Historical Society
|
Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Transportation
|
website, Pierce-Arrow cars, motorcycles, bicycles and memorabilia
|
Bull Stone House
|
|
Hamptonburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Early 18th-century stone house
|
Bullthistle Model Railroad Society Museum
|
|
Norwich
|
Chenango
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Railroad
|
website, model railroad layouts
|
Bundy Museum of History and Art
|
|
Binghamton
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Multiple
|
Victorian period house, Bundy Manufacturing Company time recorder clocks and artifacts, modern & African art, local history, Southern Tier Broadcasters Hall of Fame, period barber shop
|
Burchfield-Penney Art Center
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Features works by Charles E. Burchfield, J. J. Lankes and other area artists
|
Burden Iron Works
|
|
Troy
|
Rensselaer
|
Capital District
|
Industry - Iron
|
Open by appointment only
|
Busti Grist Mill & Historical Society Museum
|
|
Busti
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Mill
|
Open for annual fall festival and by appointment
|
Butler Church Museum
|
|
Butler
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Butler Historical Society
|
Call Homestead Museum
|
|
Andover
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
History
|
19th- and 20th-century farm equipment and traditional rural implements, butter churns, crocks, clocks, quilts, toys, musical instruments, furniture, artwork and local pottery[7]
|
Cambridge Historical Society Museum
|
|
Cambridge
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, Victorian house with period furnishings and local history displays
|
Camp Santanoni
|
|
Newcomb
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic camp
|
National Historic Landmark camp open for tours
|
Camp Shanks World War II Museum
|
|
Orangeburg
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Military
|
Former embarkation point for troops in World War II
|
Canal Town Museum
|
|
Canastota
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
|
Carnegie Art Center
|
|
North Tonawanda
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Contemporary art exhibits, visual art and dance classes
|
Caroga Historical Museum
|
|
Caroga
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Open-air
|
website, farm house, exhibit barn, general store, cobbler's shop, ice house and Sherman's Park Arcade, operated by the Caroga Historical Association
|
Carriage House Museum
|
|
Camden
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
information[8]
|
Cary Hill Sculpture Park
|
|
Salem
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Sculpture park
|
|
CAS Arts Center
|
|
Livingston Manor
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
website, operated by the Catskill Art Society
|
Casey's Cottage
|
|
Mexico
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website Archived 2014-07-16 at the Wayback Machine, located in Mexico Point State Park, medieval-style cottage
|
Casparus F. Pruyn House
|
|
Newtonville
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
19th-century Greek Revival house, restored one-room schoolhouse, smokehouse, potting shed, woodshed/privy building, carriage house, well house, gardens, historic and cultural arts programs
|
Castellani Art Museum
|
|
Lewiston
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Contemporary art and folk art, part of Niagara University
|
Castile Historical Museum
|
|
Castile
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Castile Historical Society
|
Catamount People's Museum
|
|
Catskill
|
Greene
|
Capital District
|
Culture
|
website, people, stories, culture and history of the Catskill Mountains, located in a bobcat-shaped building built out of salvaged wood[9]
|
Cattaraugus County Museum
|
|
Machias
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, also known as the Stone House
|
Catskill Fly Fishing Center and Museum
|
|
Livingston Manor
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Sports
|
|
Caverns Creek Grist Mill
|
|
Howes Cave
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Mill
|
Mill museum and country store[10]
|
Cayuga Museum of History and Art
|
|
Auburn
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Multiple
|
Local history, art, culture and the invention of sound film
|
Central Square Museum
|
|
Central Square
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Railroad
|
website Archived 2008-08-28 at the Wayback Machine, operated by the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
|
Center for Photography at Woodstock
|
|
Kingston, New York
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
website, Artist-centered contemporary photography organization with exhibits
|
CEPA Gallery
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, contemporary photography and visual arts center
|
Champlain Valley Transportation Museum
|
|
Plattsburgh
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Transportation
|
Includes cars, canoes, trains, trolleys and more
|
Chapman Historical Museum
|
|
Glens Falls
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Late 19th-century period house
|
Charles Dickert Wildlife Collection
|
|
Saranac Lake
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Natural history
|
website, located on the first floor of the Saranac Lake Free Library, taxidermy specimens of local animals
|
Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Lighthouse
|
Operated by the Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Historical Society
|
Charlton Historical Society Museum
|
|
Charlton
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Chautauqua Institution
|
|
Chautauqua
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Visual arts gallery, performing arts
|
Cheektowaga Historical Museum
|
|
Cheektowaga
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Cheektowaga Historical Association
|
Chemung Valley History Museum
|
|
Elmira
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Chemung County Historical Society
|
Chenango Canal Cottage Museum
|
|
Bouckville
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Canals
|
website, operated by the Chenango Canal Association
|
Chenango County Historical Society
|
|
Norwich
|
Chenango
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Cherry Valley Museum
|
|
Cherry Valley
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Children's Museum at Saratoga
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Children's
|
website
|
Children's Museum of Oswego
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Children's
|
website
|
Children's Museum of Science and Technology
|
|
Troy
|
Rensselaer
|
Capital District
|
Science
|
|
Chittenango Landing Canal Boat Museum
|
|
Chittenango
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Canals
|
Open seasonally, construction and repair of canal boats and the social history of the Erie Canal era
|
Cigarville Railroad Station Museum
|
|
Clay
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Town of Clay Historical Association in Clay Historic Park[11]
|
Clarence Historical Museum
|
|
Clarence
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Clarence Historical Society
|
Clermont State Historic Site
|
|
Clermont
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
1930s period manor house and estate with exhibits about the Livingston family
|
Clifton F. West Historical Museum
|
|
Hague
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Hague Historical Society
|
Clinton County Historical Museum
|
|
Plattsburgh
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Clinton County Historical Association
|
Clove Furnace Historic Site
|
|
Arden
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Industry - Iron
|
Iron blast furnace ruins and museum
|
Cobblestone Society Museum
|
|
Childs
|
Orleans
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
1834 church, 1840 house and 1849 house that exemplify area cobblestone architecture
|
Columbia County Museum
|
|
Kinderhook
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Columbia County Historical Society, includes the Luykas Van Alen House, 1850 Ichabod Crane Schoolhouse, 1819 James Vanderpoel House
|
Colton Museum
|
|
Colton
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website Archived 2016-01-29 at the Wayback Machine, open daily 10-2 and by appointment with the Colton Historical Society
|
Constitution Island
|
|
West Point
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house - Fort
|
Tour includes boat ride to and from island, guided tour of Revolutionary War fortifications and 17-room Warner House
|
Cook Museum of Local History
|
|
Galway
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Restored Victorian house with Victorian rooms, dolls, clothing, dishes, tools, bibles[12]
|
Corinth Museum
|
|
Corinth
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Cornerstone Park
|
|
Carmel
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website
|
Corning Museum of Glass
|
|
Corning
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Industry - Glass
|
|
Cottage Lawn Museum
|
|
Oneida
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Madison County Historical Society, Victorian period house and local history displays
|
Crandall Public Library Folklife Center
|
|
Glens Falls
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Multiple
|
website Archived 2010-09-19 at the Wayback Machine, exhibits of the history and culture of the upper Hudson Valley and southern Adirondacks of upstate New York
|
Czurles-Nelson Gallery
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, part of Buffalo State University
|
Cropsey Homestead
|
|
Hastings-on-Hudson
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
Also known as Ever Rest, studio with artwork of Jasper F. Cropsey, operated by the Newington-Cropsey Foundation along with their Gallery of Art, featuring works by Cropsey
|
Crown Point State Historic Site
|
|
Crown Point
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
Remains of a Colonial era fort and museum
|
Cuba Cheese Museum
|
|
Cuba
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Food and drink
|
[13]
|
Cuba Historical Society Museum
|
|
Cuba
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
[14]
|
Daniel Parrish Witter Agricultural Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Agriculture
|
website, open during the New York State Fair, farming tools, equipment, log cabin, demonstrations, operated by the NYS Agricultural Society
|
Dansville Area Historical Museum
|
|
Dansville
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website Archived 2016-03-13 at the Wayback Machine, operated by the Dansville Area Historical Society
|
Dart Airport Aviation Museum
|
|
Mayville
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Aviation
|
[15]
|
Darwin D. Martin House
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
|
Das Haus und Der Stahl
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Ethnic
|
Area German heritage museum in an 1843 home of original settlers
|
David Crawford House
|
|
Newburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Historical Society of Newburgh Bay and the Highlands
|
David Sayre Store and House Museum
|
|
Milford
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
History
|
Facebook site, early 19th-century period store operated by the Greater Milford Historical Association[16]
|
Dayton Historical Museum
|
|
Dayton
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
[17]
|
Dayton's Corners School
|
|
Penfield
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Education
|
Open during special events; one-room schoolhouse
|
De Kalb Historical Association Museum
|
|
De Kalb
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
[18]
|
Delaware and Hudson Canal Museum
|
|
High Falls
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Canals
|
History of the Delaware & Hudson Canal, operated by the D & H Canal Historical Society
|
Deposit Historical Society Museum
|
|
Deposit
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
DeRuyter Museum
|
|
DeRuyter
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Tromptown Historical Society
|
DeWint House
|
|
Tappan
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century Colonial Dutch house, temporary headquarters of Commander-in-Chief George Washington during the American Revolution
|
Dia Beacon
|
|
Beacon
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
one of the twelve locations and sites the Dia Art Foundation manages.[19]
|
DIRT Museum & Hall of Fame
|
|
Weedsport
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Automotive
|
website, classic cars, stock cars, memorabilia and a drivers' hall of fame
|
Discovery Center of the Southern Tier
|
|
Binghamton
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Children's
|
website
|
Donald M. Kendall Sculpture Gardens
|
|
Purchase
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Sculpture park
|
Collection of 45 pieces of outdoor sculpture at the Pepsico world headquarters
|
Dowd Gallery
|
|
Cortland
|
Cortland
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, part of State University of New York at Cortland
|
Dr. John Quincy Howe House
|
|
Phelps
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated as a museum of local history by the Phelps Community Historical Society
|
Dunkirk Lighthouse & Veterans Museum
|
|
Dunkirk
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Military
|
Lighthouse and keeper's cottage with collection of military artifacts
|
Dunkirk Historical Museum
|
|
Dunkirk
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, local history, art and culture, includes Brooks Locomotive Works equipment and artifacts
|
Durham Center Museum
|
|
East Durham
|
Greene
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
[20]
|
Dyke Museum
|
|
Wellsville
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by The Thelma Rogers Genealogical & Historical Society[21]
|
East Bloomfield Historical Society
|
|
East Bloomfield
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
East Otto Historical Museum
|
|
East Otto
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
[22]
|
Edith Langley Barrett Fine Art Gallery
|
|
Utica
|
Oneida
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
website, part of Utica University
|
Edmonston House
|
|
New Windsor
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century period house
|
Edward Hopper House Art Center
|
|
Nyack
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
|
Edwin Welling Van Duzer Memorial House
|
|
Middletown
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Facebook site, home of the Historical Society of Middletown & the Wallkill Precinct[23]
|
El Museo Francisco Oller y Diego Rivera
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, exhibition of fine art by Latin/Caribbean, African-American and other artists of color
|
Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum
|
|
East Aurora
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Arts and Crafts movement style home featuring furniture and decorative items produced by the Roycroft community, located in the George and Gladys Scheidemantel House
|
Eleanor Roosevelt National Historic Site
|
|
Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
|
Eleazer Harding House
|
|
Otisville
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
information, operated by Mount Hope Historical Society
|
Elijah Miller House
|
|
White Plains
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century farmhouse used during the Revolutionary War by General George Washington as a headquarters command post during the Battle of White Plains
|
Elizabeth Cady Stanton House
|
|
Seneca Falls
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Part of Women's Rights National Historical Park
|
Ellenville Public Library and Museum
|
|
Ellenville
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, known as the Terwilliger House Museum
|
Ellicottville Historical Museum
|
|
Ellicottville
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Open seasonally[24]
|
Elma Historical Society Museum
|
|
Elma
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, local history, also 1847 water-powered saw mill
|
Empire State Aerosciences Museum
|
|
Glenville
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Aviation
|
|
Empire State Heritage Park
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Central New York
|
Canals
|
website, formerly Erie Canal Village, area canal heritage
|
Empire State Railway Museum
|
|
Phoenicia
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Railroad
|
|
Empire State Theater Musical Instrument Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Music
|
website, located in the Empire Expo Center and open during the New York State Fair, theater organs
|
Endicott Visitor Center
|
|
Endicott
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine, includes a museum of local history
|
Erie Canal Discovery Center
|
|
Lockport
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Canals
|
website, operated by the Niagara County Historical Society, construction and operations of the Erie Canal
|
Erie Canal Depot
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
[1], history of the Erie Canal in the depot at Historic Palmyra
|
Erie Canal Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Canals
|
History of the Erie Canal
|
Erie Canal Park
|
|
Camillus
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
website, includes Sims' Store Museum, replica of the original Sims' canal store, and a steam engine exhibit
|
Esperance Historical Museum
|
|
Esperance
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
Facebook site, operated by the Esperance Historical Society
|
Everson Museum of Art
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Art
|
American art
|
Explore & More Children's Museum
|
|
East Aurora
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Children's
|
|
Fannie Bartlett House/Olean Point Museum
|
|
Olean
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
information, information
|
Farmers' Museum
|
|
Cooperstown
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Agriculture
|
Living farm museum, also home to the Empire State Carousel
|
FASNY Museum of Firefighting
|
|
Hudson
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Firefighting
|
website, heritage of firefighting in New York State
|
Fenimore Art Museum
|
|
Cooperstown
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Art
|
American Folk, North American Indian, Hudson River School and 19th-century genre art and American photography
|
Fenton History Center
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
|
Fiddlers Hall of Fame and Museum
|
|
Redfield
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Music
|
website, operated by the New York State Old Tyme Fiddlers' Association
|
Finger Lakes Boating Museum
|
|
Penn Yan
|
Yates
|
Finger Lakes
|
Maritime
|
website, over 60 Finger-Lakes-built boats
|
Fire Museum of Syracuse
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Firefighting
|
Open by appointment only[25]
|
Fleischmanns Museum of Memories
|
|
Fleischmanns
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
Located behind the Skene Memorial Library and open from Memorial Day through Labor Day[26][27]
|
Fort Crailo
|
|
Rensselaer
|
Rensselaer
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Colonial New Netherland history, also known as Crailo State Historic Site
|
Fort Decker Museum of History
|
|
Port Jervis
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated as a local history museum by the Minisink Valley Historical Society
|
Fort Delaware Museum
|
|
Narrowsburg
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Open air
|
website, depiction of the life of pioneers who settled in the Upper Delaware Valley in 1754
|
Fort Drum Museum
|
|
Fort Drum
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Military
|
website Archived 2014-09-29 at the Wayback Machine, history of the 10th Mountain Division and Fort Drum, Facebook site
|
Fort Klock
|
|
St. Johnsville
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Open air
|
Revolutionary era historic homestead, Colonial Dutch Barn, blacksmith shop, and 19th-century schoolhouse
|
Fort Montgomery State Historic Site
|
|
Fort Montgomery
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Military
|
American Revolutionary War site and museum
|
Fort Ontario
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
Star-shaped fort restored to its 1868-1872 appearance
|
Fort Plain Museum & Historical Park
|
|
Fort Plain
|
Montgomery
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
History
|
website, Revolutionary War headquarters of Marinus Willett
|
Fort Stanwix National Monument
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
Reconstructed Colonial fort, important site during the American Revolutionary War, living history enactments
|
Fort Ticonderoga
|
|
Ticonderoga
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
Revolutionary fort with costumed interpreters represent 18th-century soldiers and refugee women
|
Fort William Henry
|
|
Lake George
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
French & Indian War fort with costumed interpreters
|
Fosdick-Nelson Gallery
|
|
Alfred
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, part of Alfred University, contemporary art
|
Foster Cottage Museum
|
|
Clifton Springs
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Clifton Springs Historical Society
|
Foster Farm Museum
|
|
Brewster
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Agriculture
|
Historic farm featuring rare and endangered early American farm animals, farm equipment, rock and roll memorabilia
|
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
|
|
Poughkeepsie
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
Part of Vassar College
|
Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
|
|
Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Biographical
|
|
Franklin House of History
|
|
Malone
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Franklin County Historical and Museum Society
|
Frederic Remington Art Museum
|
|
Ogdensburg
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Art
|
Works of Frederic Remington
|
Fred J. Johnston Museum
|
|
Kingston
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by Friends of Historic Kingston, 1812 house with collection of 18th and early 19th century furnishings and decorative arts
|
Friends of Historic Kingston Museum
|
|
Kingston
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, operated by Friends of Historic Kingston
|
Frisbee House and Museum
|
|
Delhi
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Open air
|
Operated by the Delaware County Historical Association, home to 7 historic buildings including the 1797 Frisbee House
|
Frontenac Museum
|
|
Union Springs
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Frontenac Historical Society
|
Fryer Memorial Museum
|
|
Munnsville
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Fulton County Museum
|
|
Gloversville
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Fulton County Historical Society
|
Ganondagan State Historic Site
|
|
Victor
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Native American
|
Seneca village
|
Gates House Museum
|
|
Warsaw
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Warsaw Historical Society, 19th-century house
|
Gateway Museum
|
|
Morristown
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
History
|
website, local history, culture
|
General Richard Montgomery House
|
|
Rhinebeck
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
website Archived 2009-08-31 at the Wayback Machine, occupied by General Richard Montgomery during the American Revolutionary War, open by appointment with the Chancellor Livingston Chapter, NSDAR
|
Genesee Country Village and Museum
|
|
Mumford
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Open air
|
19th-century living history museum, includes John L. Wehle Gallery of Sporting Art, Genesee Country Nature Center, Carriage Museum, Silver Baseball Park and Heirloom Gardens
|
Geneva History Museum
|
|
Geneva
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, located in the Prouty-Chew House, operated by the Geneva Historical Society
|
George Barton House
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
|
George Eastman Museum
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Photography
|
Historic mansion with exhibits on photography and film
|
Georgetown Historical Society Museum
|
|
Georgetown
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
[28]
|
Georgi on the Battenkill Museum and Park
|
|
Shushan
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
website, Italian, Dutch, Flemish, German and French paintings from the 14th through the 18th centuries, Chinese and Asian tapestries and figurines
|
Gerrit Smith Estate
|
|
Peterboro
|
Madison
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
19th-century house, site along the Underground Railroad
|
Gilboa Museum
|
|
Gilboa
|
Schoharie
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Local history
|
website, fossils, local history, operated by the Gilboa Historical Society
|
Glebe House
|
|
Poughkeepsie
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century period house
|
Glenn H. Curtiss Museum
|
|
Hammondsport
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Aviation
|
Early aviation and local history
|
Gomez Mill House
|
|
Newburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Earliest surviving Jewish residence in North America
|
Goodsell Museum
|
|
Old Forge
|
Herkimer
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Town of Webb Historical Association
|
Gouverneur Museum
|
|
Gouverneur
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website
|
Granger Homestead and Carriage Museum
|
|
Canandaigua
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
19th-century period mansion, collection of carriages
|
Grant Cottage State Historic Site
|
|
Wilton
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Late 19th-century period house where President Ulysses S. Grant died in 1885
|
Graycliff
|
|
Derby
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
|
Great Camp Sagamore
|
|
Raquette Lake
|
Hamilton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic camp
|
National Historic Landmark camp open for tours
|
Greater Oneonta Historical Society History Center
|
|
Oneonta
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Greece Museum
|
|
Greece
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Greece Historical Society
|
Greenfield Park Museum
|
|
Wawarsing
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Education
|
One-room schoolhouse
|
Griffis International Sculpture Garden
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Central New York
|
Art
|
website, outdoor art park, works created by Sculpture Space in Griffiss Business and Technology Park
|
Griffis Sculpture Park
|
|
East Otto
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Sculpture park
|
425-acre (1.72 km2) outdoor art museum
|
Groton Historical Association Museum
|
|
Groton
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
[29]
|
H.P. Sears Oil Co. Service Station Museum
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Central New York
|
Automotive
|
website, restored service station with automotive memorabilia
|
Hagadorn House
|
|
Almond
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Almond Historical Society
|
Half-Shire Historical Society Museum
|
|
Richland
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Showcases artists of diverse backgrounds in film, video, literature, music, performance, media and visual arts
|
Hamilton Hill Arts Center
|
|
Schenectady
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
website, African and African American art and culture
|
Hamlin's North Star History Center
|
|
Hamlin
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
|
Hammond Historical Museum
|
|
Hammond
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the R.T. Elethorp Historical Society
|
Hammond Museum and Japanese Stroll Garden
|
|
North Salem
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
East Asian art and culture and Japanese garden
|
Hancock House Museum
|
|
Ticonderoga
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Ticonderoga Historical Society
|
Handwerker Gallery
|
|
Ithaca
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, part of Ithaca College
|
Hanford Mills Museum
|
|
East Meredith
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Mill
|
Sawmill, gristmill, feed mill, woodworking shop and hardware store
|
Harmony Historical Society
|
|
Blockville
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Harness Racing Museum & Hall of Fame
|
|
Goshen
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Orange
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Mid-Hudson
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Sports
|
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Harriet Tubman Home
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Auburn
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Cayuga
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Finger Lakes
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Biographical
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Place where Harriet Tubman spent her last years
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Hart-Cluett Mansion
|
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Troy
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Rensselaer
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Capital District
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Historic house
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Operated by the Rensselaer County Historical Society, 19th-century period rowhouse
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Hartford Museum & Howard Hanna Memorial Civil War Enlistment Center
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Hartford
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Washington
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Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Museum located in the Elisha Straight House; depicts life and local industry in the 19th century; center depicts the history of the area men who enlisted for the American Civil War
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Hastings Historical Society
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Hastings-on-Hudson
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Westchester
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Lower Hudson
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Local history
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website
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Haverstraw Brick Museum
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Haverstraw
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Rockland
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Lower Hudson
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Industry
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website, area brick making industry
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Hawkins Point Visitors Center
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Massena
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St. Lawrence
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Thousand Islands
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Science
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website, operated by the New York Power Authority at the St. Lawrence-FDR Power Project, exhibits about energy, electricity and the North Country
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Heart's Delight Farm
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Chazy
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Clinton
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Adirondack Region
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Agriculture
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Operated by the Miner Institute, farm history and demonstrations, life of founder William Miner and his railroad inventions
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Henderson Historical Society and Museum
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Henderson
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Jefferson
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Thousand Islands
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Local history
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website
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Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
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Ithaca
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Tompkins
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Finger Lakes
|
Art
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Part of Cornell University
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Heritage Discovery Center Buffalo
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Buffalo
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Erie
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Buffalo Niagara Region
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Industry
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website, railway, steel and industrial heritage of Western New York, includes the Steel Plant Museum, Western New York Railway Historical Society and other organizations
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Heritage Museum on the Hemlock Fairgrounds
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Hemlock
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Livingston
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Finger Lakes
|
History
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website, open during the fair and by appointment
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Heritage Square Museum
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Ontario
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Open air
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Buildings from the mid-19th century
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Herkimer County Historical Society Suiter Building Museum
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Herkimer
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Herkimer
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Adirondack Region
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Local history
|
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Herkimer County Jail
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Herkimer
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Herkimer
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Adirondack Region
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Prison
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Tours given by the Herkimer County Historical Society
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Herkimer Diamond Mines Museum
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Herkimer
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Herkimer
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Adirondack Region
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Natural history
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website, includes the Herkimer Diamond Mines Gift Shop, Museum, and Prospecting Area, includes exhibits of minerals and fossils
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Herkimer Home State Historic Site
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Danube
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Herkimer
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Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
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18th-century period house
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Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum
|
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Cooperstown
|
Otsego
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Central Leatherstocking
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Sport
|
website
|
Herschell Carrousel Factory Museum
|
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North Tonawanda
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Carrousel
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Housed in an original carousel factory building
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Hervey Ely House
|
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Rochester
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Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
19th-century mansion, operated by the Irondequoit chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
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Hessel Museum of Art
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Annandale-on-Hudson
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Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
Part of Bard College, contemporary art
|
High Falls Interpretive Center and Museum
|
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Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, local history, industry, culture, art, operated by the Office of the City Historian
|
Hill-Hold Museum
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Hamptonburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Hudson Valley farm in the 1830s
|
Historic Cherry Hill
|
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Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
17th-century house reflecting owners through the 19th century
|
Historic Huguenot Street
|
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Gardiner
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Open air
|
Tours of historic houses, including Locust Lawn Estate, operated by the Huguenot Historical Society
|
Historic Pittsford Museum
|
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Pittsford
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Historical Society of Rockland County History Center Museum
|
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New City
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website
|
The Historical Society and Museum
|
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Tarrytown
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, history of Tarrytown and Sleepy Hollow, located in the Jacob Odell House
|
The History Center in Tompkins County
|
|
Ithaca
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
website
|
History House
|
|
Moravia
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Cayuga-Owasco Lakes Historical Society
|
H. Lee White Marine Museum
|
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Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Maritime
|
Boats, ship models, sailmakers' tools, navigational equipment, nautically themed painting, nautical artifacts; home of the World War II-era tugboat Nash
|
Hobart Historical Center
|
|
Hobart
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
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Hoffman Clock Museum
|
|
Newark
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Horology
|
website, history of timekeeping, includes over 300 clocks, watches and tools
|
Holland Land Office Museum
|
|
Batavia
|
Genesee
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
History of the Holland Land Company
|
Holocaust Museum & Center for Tolerance and Education
|
|
Suffern
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
History
|
website, located at Rockland Community College
|
Home of Franklin D. Roosevelt National Historic Site
|
|
Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
|
Hopkinton Town Museum
|
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Hopkinton
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
information
|
Horace Greeley House
|
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Chappaqua
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the New Castle Historical Society, 19th-century home of newspaper editor and later presidential candidate Horace Greeley
|
Horicon Museum
|
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Brant Lake
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Town of Horicon Historical Society
|
Hornell Erie Depot Museum
|
|
Hornell
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Railroad
|
website, Erie Railroad memorabilia
|
Horseheads Historical Society Depot Museum
|
|
Horseheads
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
House of Frankenstein Wax Museum
|
|
Lake George
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Wax
|
website, wax models of scary figures
|
Howe Caverns
|
|
Howes
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Natural history
|
Cavern tours and the Cave House Museum of Mining & Geology
|
Howland Stone Store Museum
|
|
Sherwood
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
|
Hudson Highlands Nature Museum
|
|
Cornwall
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Natural history
|
website
|
Hudson River Maritime Museum
|
|
Kingston
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Maritime
|
History of shipping, boating and industry on the Hudson River and its tributaries; operates the Rondout Light for tours
|
Hudson River Museum
|
|
Yonkers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Multiple
|
Art, natural history, planetarium
|
Hunting Tavern Museum
|
|
Andes
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic site
|
website, operated by the Andes Society for History and Culture
|
Hurley Heritage Society Museum
|
|
Kingston
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
website, also known as Col. Jonathan Elmendorf House
|
Hyde Collection
|
|
Glens Falls
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
Private art collection in original home context, includes American, French and Italian art, furnishings, textiles, silver and ceramics
|
Hyde Hall
|
|
Springfield
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic house
|
Adjacent to Glimmerglass State Park, turn-of-the-19th-century mansion
|
Hyde Park Station
|
|
Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Railroad
|
Includes area's railroad history, artifacts and model railroad
|
Interlaken Historical Society Museum
|
|
Interlaken
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
International Boxing Hall of Fame
|
|
Canastota
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Sports
|
|
International Mask & Puppet Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Puppetry
|
website, part of Open Hand Theater
|
International Motor Racing Research Center
|
|
Watkins Glen
|
Schuyler
|
Finger Lakes
|
Sports
|
Archives, research library & exhibits
|
Ira G. Ross Aerospace Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Aerospace
|
Formerly the Niagara Aerospace Museum
|
Irish American Heritage Museum
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Ethnic
|
History and heritage of the Irish in America
|
Iron Center Museum
|
|
Port Henry
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Industry - Iron
|
Railroad and mining history, operated by the Moriah Historical Society[30]
|
Iron Island Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Iron Island Preservation Society of Lovejoy
|
Iroquois Indian Museum
|
|
Howes Cave
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Native American
|
Iroquois culture and art
|
Jacob Blauvelt House
|
|
New City
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Historical Society of Rockland County, mid-19th-century period farmhouse
|
Jacob Purdy House
|
|
White Plains
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Maintained by the White Plains Historical Society, George Washington's headquarters during the Battle of White Plains 1776 and in 1778
|
Jacob T. Walden Stone House
|
|
Walden
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century period house operated by the Walden Historical Society
|
Jamesville Community Museum
|
|
Jamesville
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
Located in the former Saint Mark's Church
|
Java Historical Society Museum
|
|
Java
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by appointment
|
Jay Heritage Center
|
|
Rye
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Home of and museum about John Jay
|
Jean Hasbrouck House
|
|
New Paltz
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Part of Historic Huguenot Street, early 18th-century Dutch house
|
Jefferson County Historical Society Museum
|
|
Watertown
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
|
Jell-O Gallery
|
|
Le Roy
|
Genesee
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Food and drink
|
Operated by the Le Roy Historical Society, history and memorabilia of Jell-O
|
John Brown Farm and Gravesite
|
|
North Elba
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Home and final resting place of abolitionist John Brown
|
John D. Murray Firefighters Museum
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Firefighting
|
Facebook site[31]
|
John Jay Homestead State Historic Site
|
|
Katonah
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
|
John Kane House
|
|
Pawling
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Historical Society of Quaker Hill and Pawling, 18th-century house with period furnishings and local history exhibits
|
Johnson Hall State Historic Site
|
|
Johnstown
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
18th-century home of Sir William Johnson, an Irish pioneer and British Indian agent in the Province of New York
|
Johnstown Historical Society Museum
|
|
Johnstown
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
[32][33]
|
Johnston House
|
|
Geneva
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Geneva Historical Society, contains the Mike Weaver Drain Tile Museum
|
John William Draper House
|
|
Hastings-on-Hudson
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Museum of the Hastings Historical Society
|
Joseph Horton House
|
|
Wappingers Falls
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Pre-Revolutionary War Dutch Colonial home, open by appointment
|
Joseph Smith Farm
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Home and farm of Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr.
|
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Library
|
|
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum
|
|
Newburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Library
|
Exhibits from its collections
|
Katonah Museum of Art
|
|
Katonah
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
|
Kenan Center
|
|
Lockport
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, visual and performing arts center with gallery
|
Kent-Delord House Museum
|
|
Plattsburgh
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Features 19th-century period furnishings
|
Kiersted House Museum
|
|
Saugerties
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Saugerties Historical Society, 18th-century house
|
Kinetic Gallery
|
|
Geneseo
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, part of SUNY Geneseo
|
Kinnear Museum of Local History
|
|
Lake Luzerne
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Hadley-Luzerne Historical Society
|
Klyne Esopus Museum
|
|
Esopus
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
|
Knickerbocker Mansion
|
|
Schaghticoke
|
Rensselaer
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Knickerbocker Historical Society, late 18th-century mansion
|
Knight-Sutton Museum
|
|
Akron
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Newstead Historical Society
|
Knox's Headquarters State Historic Site
|
|
New Windsor
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Revolutionary War headquarters for General Henry Knox
|
Kykuit
|
|
Mount Pleasant
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Also known as John D. Rockefeller Estate, 40-room mansion with art collection, gardens
|
Lake George Historical Association Museum
|
|
Lake George
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Lake Placid Winter Olympic Museum
|
|
Lake Placid
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Sports
|
Memorabilia of the 1932 & 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics
|
Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society Museum
|
|
Lake Placid
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Lake Pleasant Museum
|
|
Lake Pleasant
|
Hamilton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Historical Society of Lake Pleasant & Speculator
|
Lancaster District School No. 6
|
|
Lancaster
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Education
|
Open by appointment with the Lancaster Historical Society
|
Lancaster Historical Society Museum
|
|
Lancaster
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Lansing Manor House
|
|
North Blenheim
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Early 19th-century period house
|
Le Roy House
|
|
LeRoy
|
Genesee
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Le Roy Historical Society
|
Lederer Lockhart Bridge Galleries
|
|
Geneseo
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, three art galleries at State University of New York at Geneseo
|
Lehigh Valley Railroad Historical Society Station Museum
|
|
Shortsville
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Railroad
|
website
|
Leon Historical Society Museum
|
|
Leon
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
|
Lewiston Museum
|
|
Lewiston
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Historical Association of Lewiston
|
Liberty Museum & Arts Center
|
|
Liberty
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
website
|
Light Work
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Art
|
Non-profit photography center
|
Lincoln Depot Museum
|
|
Peekskill
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Biographical
|
History and ties between Abraham Lincoln and Peekskill
|
Lisbon Depot Museum
|
|
Lisbon
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
Town's social, agricultural and railway history
|
Little Falls New York Historical Society & Museum
|
|
Little Falls
|
Herkimer
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Little Red Schoolhouse Museum
|
|
Chestnut Ridge
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Education
|
website, operated by the East Ramapo School District
|
Little Red School House Museum
|
|
Sterling
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Sterling Historical Society
|
Liverpool Village Museum
|
|
Liverpool
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Changing exhibits of local history, grounds also include the Liverpool Willow Museum about the local willow weaving industry, located in the Lucius Gleason House
|
Livingston Art Center
|
|
Mount Morris
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
website, art center with New Deal Gallery, featuring Works Progress Administration art from the Great Depression, and the Apartment One Gallery for exhibits of regional art
|
Livingston County Historical Society Museum
|
|
Geneseo
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Livingston History Barn
|
|
Livingston
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
website
|
Locust Grove (Samuel F. B. Morse House)
|
|
Poughkeepsie
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
19th-century period furnished house, exhibit on telegraph inventor Samuel Morse
|
Locust Lawn Estate
|
|
Gardiner
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
19th-century farm complex, part of Historic Huguenot Street
|
Longyear Museum of Anthropology
|
|
Hamilton
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Anthropology
|
Part of Colgate University, archaeological and ethnographic materials from Africa, Oceania, and the pre-Columbian cultures of North, Central, and South America[34]
|
Lorenzo State Historic Site
|
|
Cazenovia
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic house
|
Early 19th-century mansion
|
Louis Miller Museum
|
|
Hoosick Falls
|
Rensselaer
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by Hoosick Township Historical Society
|
Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Center
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Biographical
|
Memorabilia of television stars Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz
|
Lucille Wright Air Museum
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Aerospace
|
website, air and space education, planetarium
|
Lyndhurst (Jay Gould Estate)
|
|
Tarrytown
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
19th-century mansion in 67-acre (270,000 m2) park
|
Lyon Mountain Mining and Railroad Museum
|
|
Lyon Mountain
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Includes history of Lyon Mountain mines and the D & H Railroad
|
Mabee Farm Historic Site
|
|
Rotterdam Junction
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
17th-century Dutch farm, oldest house still standing in the Mohawk Valley, operated by the Schenectady County Historical Society
|
Madam Brett Homestead
|
|
Beacon
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Daughters of the American Revolution, early 18th-century home
|
Mandeville Gallery
|
|
Schenectady
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
Part of Union College, located in the Nott Memorial, changing exhibits of contemporary art, history and science
|
Manitoga
|
|
Garrison
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
20th-century home of industrial designer Russel Wright, tours by reservation
|
Manlius Historical Museum
|
|
Manlius
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Manlius Historical Society
|
Maple Grove (Poughkeepsie, New York)
|
|
Poughkeepsie
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Mid-19th-century house under restoration
|
Marble Schoolhouse
|
|
Eastchester
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
Open by appointment with the Eastchester Historical Society
|
Marcella Sembrich Opera Museum
|
|
Bolton Landing
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Music
|
Home of opera star Marcella Sembrich, includes fine and decorative arts, personal opera mementos, photographs, costumes, hosts concerts
|
Margaret Reaney Memorial Library & Museum
|
|
St. Johnsville
|
Montgomery
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
website, includes fine art, sculpture, household and military items
|
Marian E. White Anthropology Research Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Science
|
Research collection of North American archaeological items,[35] part of University at Buffalo
|
Mark Twain Study
|
|
Elmira
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Biographical
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website, part of Elmira College, octagonal building where author Mark Twain wrote many of his books
|
Martin Van Buren National Historic Site
|
|
Kinderhook
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Mid-19th-century mansion and estate of President Martin Van Buren
|
Martisco Station Railway Museum
|
|
Camillus
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Railroad
|
Operated by the Central New York Chapter, National Railway Historical Society
|
Massena Museum
|
|
Massena
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website
|
Matilda Joslyn Gage Home
|
|
Fayetteville
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Biographical
|
website, restored home with exhibits about the life of suffragist, abolitionist and author Matilda Joslyn Gage
|
Maurice F. Sweeney Museum
|
|
Livonia
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Livonia Area Preservation & Historical Society
|
Maybrook Railroad Museum
|
|
Maybrook
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Railroad
|
[36]
|
Mayville Depot Museum
|
|
Mayville
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Chautauqua Town Historical Society in a historic depot
|
M'Clintock House
|
|
Waterloo
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
Mid-19th-century house is part of Women's Rights National Historical Park
|
McClurg Museum
|
|
Westfield
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Chautauqua County Historical Society, 19th-century period mansion
|
Medina Historical Society Museum
|
|
Medina
|
Orleans
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Medina Railroad Museum
|
|
Medina
|
Orleans
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Railroad
|
|
Medora Ball Museum
|
|
Otto
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
|
Memorial Art Gallery
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
European and Asian art and antiquities, American art, antiquities from Ancient Greece, Rome and the Middle East; part of the University of Rochester
|
Merestead
|
|
Mount Kisco
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Early 20th-century mansion and estate, tours by advance reservation
|
Mexico Historical Society Museum
|
|
Mexico
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
Facebook site[37]
|
Mid-Hudson Children's Museum
|
|
Poughkeepsie
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Children's
|
|
Middlebury Historical Society
|
|
Wyoming
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
|
Midway State Park
|
|
Maple Springs
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Amusement
|
Historic amusement park with museum
|
Military History Society of Rochester
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Military
|
website U.S. Military artifacts from the War of 1812 through current times.
|
Mill Museum
|
|
Galen
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Agriculture
|
website, operated by the Galen Historical Society, farming and household items
|
Millard Fillmore House
|
|
East Aurora
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
19th-century period home of President Millard Fillmore
|
Mills Mansion
|
|
Mount Morris
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Mid-19th-century period home, operated by the Mount Morris Historical Society
|
Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Science
|
Often referred to as the MOST
|
Miner's Cabin
|
|
Franklinville
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Ischua Valley Historical Society
|
Minerva Historical Society Museum
|
|
Olmstedville
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Mohawk Valley Center for the Arts
|
|
Little Falls
|
Herkimer
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
website
|
Montgomery Place
|
|
Annandale-on-Hudson
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
One of the Historic Hudson Valley houses, early 19th-century estate
|
Moore Historical Museum
|
|
Waddington
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website
|
Morehouse Historical Museum
|
|
Morehouse
|
Hamilton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Morrisville State College Wildlife Museum
|
|
Morrisville
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Natural history
|
website, open by appointment
|
Motorcyclepedia
|
|
Newburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Transportation
|
Over 500 motorcycles from 1897 onward
|
Mount Gulian
|
|
Fishkill
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Reconstructed 18th-century Dutch manor house
|
Mount Lebanon Shaker Village
|
|
New Lebanon
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Open air
|
Shaker village under restoration, includes walking tours and exhibits at Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon
|
Mount Morris Dam
|
|
Mount Morris
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Natural history
|
William B. Hoyt II Visitor Center features a large atrium, museum and theater
|
Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute Museum of Art
|
|
Utica
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Art
|
Arts center with museum featuring European and American art
|
Muscoot Farm
|
|
Somers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Agriculture
|
Historic working dairy farm
|
Museum at Bethel Woods
|
|
Bethel
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Culture
|
History and culture of 1969 Woodstock Festival
|
Museum at the Creamery
|
|
Skaneateles
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Skaneateles Historical Society
|
Museum of Automobile History
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Automotive
|
website, history of the automobile from the 18th century, includes cars, photos, art, models, designs, memorabilia
|
Museum of Curiosities
|
|
Cazenovia
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Natural history
|
website, part of the Cazenovia Public Library, artifacts relating to natural history, geology, ethnography, archaeology, historic relics, art and local history
|
The Museum of disABILITY History
|
|
Williamsville
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Medical
|
History of people with disabilities from medieval times to the present era
|
Museum of the Earth
|
|
Ithaca
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
Natural history
|
Focuses on paleontology
|
Museum of Rhinebeck History
|
|
Rhinebeck
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
website
|
Museum of the Early American Circus
|
|
Somers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Multiple
|
Operated by the Somers Historical Society, local and area circus history
|
Museum of Wayne County History
|
|
Lyons
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Prison
|
website, operated by the Wayne County Historical Society, former county jail and sheriff's residence, also local history
|
Museum Village
|
|
Monroe
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Open air
|
website, 19th-century village
|
Napanoch Train Station Museum
|
|
Napanoch
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Railroad
|
[38]
|
Nash House Museum
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
20th-century home of important leader of Buffalo's African-American community
|
Nathaniel Hill Brick House
|
|
Montgomery
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century estate of Nathaniel Hill
|
National Abolition Hall of Fame & Museum
|
|
Peterboro
|
Madison
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
History and important people of the anti-slavery movement in the United States, located in the Smithfield Presbyterian Church
|
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
|
|
Cooperstown
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Sports
|
|
National Bottle Museum
|
|
Ballston Spa
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Industry - Bottle making
|
Antique glass bottles and tools
|
National Comedy Center
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Comedy
|
State of the art museum of comedy in Lucille Ball's hometown.
|
National Distance Running Hall of Fame
|
|
Utica
|
Oneida
|
Adirondack Region
|
Sports
|
|
National Memorial Day Museum
|
|
Waterloo
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
Memorabilia and history of the birth of Memorial Day
|
National Museum of Dance
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Dance
|
|
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Sports
|
|
National Purple Heart Hall of Honor
|
|
New Windsor
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Military
|
|
National Saint Kateri Tekakwitha Shrine
|
|
Fonda
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Native American
|
website, life of Kateri Tekakwitha, a Mohawk-Algonquian woman from New York and an early convert to Christianity and area Native American artifacts
|
National Shrine of the North American Martyrs
|
|
Auriesville
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Religious
|
Roman Catholic shrine dedicated to the Jesuit missionaries who were martyred at the Mohawk village of Ossernenon between 1642 and 1646
|
National Soaring Museum
|
|
Elmira
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Aviation
|
|
National Toy Hall of Fame
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Toy
|
Part of The Strong
|
National Warplane Museum
|
|
Geneseo
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Aviation
|
Aircraft of the World War II and Korean War eras
|
National Women's Hall of Fame
|
|
Seneca Falls
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
|
Native American Museum of Art
|
|
Tuscarora Reservation
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Native American
|
website, Native American art and culture, particularly Iroquois and Tuscarora
|
Nellis Tavern
|
|
St. Johnsville
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Palatine Settlement Society, restored 18th-century tavern
|
Ner-A-Car Motorcycle Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Transportation
|
Motorcycles built in New York state[39]
|
Neuberger Museum of Art
|
|
Purchase
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
contemporary art; part of Purchase College
|
Neversink Valley Museum of History and Innovation
|
|
Cuddebackville
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Canals
|
website, history of the Delaware & Hudson Canal
|
Newark-Arcadia Museum
|
|
Newark
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Newark-Arcadia Historical Society, also the 1876 Marbletown Schoolhouse
|
Newark Valley Depot and Museum
|
|
Newark Valley
|
Tioga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Railroad
|
website, operated by the Newark Valley Historical Society
|
New Netherland Museum
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Maritime
|
website, museum ship, the "Half Moon", a reproduction of the ship that Henry Hudson sailed from Holland to the New World in 1609
|
New Windsor Cantonment State Historic Site
|
|
Vails Gate
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Military
|
Reconstruction of the final encampment of the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War
|
New Woodstock Regional Historical Society Museum
|
|
New Woodstock
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
New York Museum of Transportation
|
|
Rush
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Transportation
|
Historic vehicles and photographs, trolley rides, track car rides, model railroad displays
|
New York State Capitol
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
History
|
|
New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
|
|
New Lisbon
|
Otsego
|
Capital District
|
History
|
Located in Gilbert Lake State Park, area activities of the Civilian Conservation Corps
|
New York State Country Music Hall of Fame
|
|
Cortland
|
Cortland
|
Finger Lakes
|
Music
|
website, located at the Cortland Country Music Park
|
New York State Executive Mansion
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
|
New York State Grange Museum
|
|
Cortland
|
Cortland
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
website, history and artifacts of the New York State Grange
|
New York State Military Museum
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Military
|
website, state's military history
|
New York State Museum
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Multiple
|
Art, artifacts (prehistoric and historic), and natural history artifacts that reflect New York State's cultural, natural, and geological development
|
New York State Wine Museum of Greyton H. Taylor
|
|
Hammondsport
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Multiple
|
Food and drink
|
Niagara Arts & Cultural Center
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Includes two galleries
|
Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
History
|
Museum about the Underground Railroad in Niagara Falls
|
Niagara Gorge Discovery Center
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Natural history
|
Natural and local history of Niagara Falls and the surrounding area, formerly the Schoellkopf Geological Museum
|
Niagara History Center
|
|
Lockport
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Open air
|
website, eight building museum complex showcasing early pioneer life, business and industry, includes the Col. William M. and Nancy Ralston Bond House, operated by the Niagara County Historical Society
|
Niagara Power Visitors Center
|
|
Lewiston
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Science
|
exhibits about water-powered electricity generation
|
Niagara Science Museum
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Science
|
Includes antique science instruments and philosophical apparatus
|
Niagara's Wax Museum of History
|
|
Niagara Falls
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Wax
|
website[40]
|
North Creek Depot Museum
|
|
North Creek
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Railroad
|
Area railroad history, place where Theodore Roosevelt learned of the assassination of President William McKinley and of his accession to the Presidency of the United States
|
Northeast Classic Car Museum
|
|
Norwich
|
Chenango
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Automotive
|
Over 150 classic and antique cars
|
North Tonawanda History Museum
|
|
North Tonawanda
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Norfolk Historical Museum
|
|
Norfolk
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website
|
Northup Carriage House Museum
|
|
Wolcott
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, home of the Wolcott Historical Society and Museum
|
Northville & Northampton Historical Society Museum
|
|
Northville
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
[33]
|
Nunda Museum and Rose Shave Gallery
|
|
Nunda
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Nunda Historical Society
|
Oak Orchard Lighthouse Museum
|
|
Medina
|
Orleans
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Maritime
|
Reconstructed 1909 lighthouse on Lake Ontario
|
Olana State Historic Site
|
|
Greenport
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Former estate of artist Frederic Edwin Church
|
Old Austerlitz Village
|
|
Austerlitz
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Open air
|
website, operated by the Austerlitz Historical Society, early 19th-century village buildings
|
Old Fort House Museum
|
|
Fort Edward
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
18th-century house depicting life from the 1770s through the 1940s
|
Old Fort Johnson
|
|
Amsterdam
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Historic house
|
18th-century house with exhibits about the social, cultural, military and industrial past of the Mohawk Valley
|
Old Fort Niagara State Historic Site
|
|
Youngstown
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Military
|
Part of Fort Niagara State Park, restored fort dating from the 17th century, costumed interpreters
|
Old Middlefield Schoolhouse Museum
|
|
Middlefield
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Town of Middlefield Historical Association
|
Old Quaker Store Museum
|
|
Salamanca
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
History and development of Allegany State Park
|
Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome
|
|
Rhinebeck
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Aviation
|
Living museum of pre-World War II airplanes, automobiles and airplane engines
|
Old Stone Fort Museum Complex
|
|
Schoharie
|
Schoharie
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Open air
|
Includes an early 18th-century home, a 1780s Dutch barn, an 1830s law office, an 1890s one-room schoolhouse, and a 1772 stone church that was attacked during the American Revolution
|
Oliver Rice Homestead
|
|
Mayfield
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
1790 homestead with exhibits depicting local history including the glove industry
|
Omi International Arts Center
|
|
Ghent
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
Features the Fields Sculpture Park and exhibitions in the Charles B. Benenson Visitors Center & Gallery
|
Oneida Community Mansion House
|
|
Oneida
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
History of the Oneida Community
|
Oneida County Historical Society
|
|
Utica
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Onondaga Historical Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, exhibits include Syracuse China, The Magic Toy Shop, settlers, Native Americans, transportation, industry
|
Ontario County Historical Museum
|
|
Canandaigua
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Ontario County Historical Society
|
Opalka Gallery
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
website, part of Sage College of Albany
|
Opus 40
|
|
Saugerties
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
Environmental sculpture park, also features the Quarryman's Museum, collection of antique tools
|
Orange County Farmer's Museum
|
|
Montgomery
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Agriculture
|
website, including farm tools, implements, equipment
|
Orange County Firefighters Museum
|
|
Montgomery
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Firefighting
|
website
|
Orangetown Historical Museum
|
|
Orangetown
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
Located at two sites, the Edward Salyer House and the Peter DePew House; changing exhibits of local history and culture
|
Original American Kazoo Factory and Museum
|
|
Eden
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Music
|
website, kazoo history and trivia
|
Oriskany Museum
|
|
Oriskany
|
Oneida
|
Capital District
|
Military
|
website, focuses on the Battle of Oriskany which took place in 1777, the village of Oriskany NY, and the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany
|
Ortlip Gallery
|
|
Houghton
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, part of Houghton University
|
Ossining Historical Society Museum
|
|
Ossining
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
Open by appointment
|
Oswego Railroad Museum
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Railroad
|
website
|
Our Lady of Victory Basilica
|
|
Lackawanna
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Religious
|
Includes museum about founder Father Nelson Baker and the history of the basilica
|
Palatine House Museum
|
|
Schoharie
|
Schoharie
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association, Colonial living museum
|
Palentown School House Museum
|
|
Accord
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Education
|
One-room schoolhouse, open twice a year and by appointment
|
Palmyra Historic Museum
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by Historic Palmyra
|
Painted Post-Erwin Museum at the Depot
|
|
Painted Post
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Corning-Painted Post Historical Society in a late 19th-century railroad depot
|
Parishville Museum
|
|
Parishville
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website, features collection of hand-carved circus miniatures
|
Parker-O'Malley Air Museum
|
|
Ghent
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Aviation
|
Open by appointment, located at the Columbia County Airport[41]
|
Patriot Of Lake George
|
|
Lake George
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
website, dedicated to the remembrance of veterans and service personnel of all branches
|
Peck's Lake Historical Society & Museum
|
|
Gloversville
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Education
|
1857 one-room schoolhouse and nature trail[33]
|
Peekskill Museum
|
|
Peekskill
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
website
|
Pember Museum of Natural History
|
|
Granville
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Natural history
|
website, mounted animals, rocks and minerals, fossils, dried plant specimens, adjacent nature preserve
|
Penfield Homestead Museum
|
|
Crown Point
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Industry - Iron
|
History of the 19th-century ironworking industry in the North Country
|
Perrella Gallery
|
|
Johnstown
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
website, part of Fulton–Montgomery Community College
|
Perrysburg Historical Museum
|
|
Perrysburg
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
information, located in Town Hall
|
Peter Whitmer log home
|
|
Waterloo
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Replica early 19th-century log home, important site in Latter Day Saint history
|
Phelps General Store
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
website, operated by Historic Palmyra, example of the General Store when it was at its prime in 1890
|
Phelps Mansion
|
|
Binghamton
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic house
|
Furnished Victorian mansion, art exhibits
|
Philipsburg Manor House
|
|
Sleepy Hollow
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Open air
|
Mid-18th-century period house, working water-powered grist mill and millpond, an 18th-century barn, a slave garden, and a reconstructed tenant farm house
|
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
|
|
Yonkers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Museum of history, art and architecture since 1912
|
Picker Art Gallery
|
|
Hamilton
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Art
|
Part of Colgate University, located in the Dana Arts Center
|
Pickering-Beach Historical Museum
|
|
Sackets Harbor
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Sackets Harbor Historical Society in the Joshua Pickering House[42][43]
|
Pines Museum
|
|
Slate Hill
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
|
Pioneer Oil Museum
|
|
Bolivar
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Industry - Oil
|
website, area oil and gas industry
|
Pierrepont Museum
|
|
Pierrepont
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
|
Plattsburgh State Art Museum
|
|
Plattsburgh
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
|
A museum without walls comprising several galleries, exhibition areas and a sculpture park at State University of New York at Plattsburgh
|
Potsdam Public Museum
|
|
Potsdam
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website, local history, decorative arts
|
Pound Ridge Museum
|
|
Pound Ridge
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Pound Ridge Historical Society
|
Print Shop Museum
|
|
Palmyra
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Industry
|
website, operated by Historic Palmyra, historic printing equipment
|
Pratt House Museum
|
|
Fulton
|
Oswego
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
1861 mansion with local history exhibits
|
Pulaski Historical Society Museum
|
|
Pulaski
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
[44]
|
Putnam History Museum
|
|
Cold Spring
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, history of Putnam County, Philipstown, the West Point Foundry, and the Hudson Highlands
|
Putnam Valley Historical Society Museum
|
|
Putnam Valley
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website
|
Quincy Square Museum
|
|
Earlville
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Railroad Museum of the Niagara Frontier
|
|
North Tonawanda
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Railroad
|
|
Railway Historical Society of Northern New York
|
|
Croghan
|
Lewis
|
Adirondack Region
|
Railroad
|
website, depot museum with railway exhibits and trains
|
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts (St. Bonaventure)
|
|
St. Bonaventure
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, part of St. Bonaventure University
|
Remington Country Store and Museum
|
|
Ilion
|
Herkimer
|
Adirondack Region
|
Firearms
|
Remington Arms firearms from the early 19th century to the present
|
Rensselaer County Historical Society
|
|
Troy
|
Rensselaer
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
Also operates Hart-Cluett Mansion as a historic house museum
|
Richard F. Brush Art Gallery
|
|
Canton
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Art
|
website, part of St. Lawrence University
|
Richardson-Bates House
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Oswego County Historical Society, late 19th-century period mansion, local history exhibits
|
Richburg-Wirt Historical Society Museum
|
|
Richburg
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
information
|
Rich-Twinn Octagon House
|
|
Akron
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Mid-19th-century octagonal house, operated by the Newstead Historical Society
|
Ripley House Museum
|
|
Adams
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Historical Association of South Jefferson, 25-room house with local history displays
|
Rippleton Schoolhouse
|
|
Cazenovia
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Education
|
Restored 1880s period one-room schoolhouse
|
River Lea
|
|
Grand Island
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Grand Island Historical Society, located in Beaver Island State Park, Victorian summer home of Lewis F. Allen, the uncle of President Grover Cleveland[45]
|
Roberson Museum and Science Center
|
|
Binghamton
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Multiple
|
Local and natural history, science, art, planetarium
|
Robert Green Ingersoll Birthplace Museum
|
|
Dresden
|
Yates
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
19th-century birthplace of noted agnostic and politician Robert G. Ingersoll
|
Robert H. Jackson Center
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Biographical
|
Life of Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1941 to 1954
|
Robert Jenkins House
|
|
Hudson
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
website, operated by the Hendrick Hudson Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution
|
Robert Louis Stevenson Memorial Cottage and Museum
|
|
Saranac Lake
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
|
Robert M. Linsley Geology Museum
|
|
Hamilton
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Natural history
|
website, part of Colgate University, minerals, rocks, fossils, state geology
|
Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
|
|
West Henrietta
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Railroad
|
Accessed via a track car from the New York Museum of Transportation, houses over 40 pieces of railroad rolling stock
|
Rochester Contemporary Art Center
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
Contemporary art
|
Rochester Medical Museum and Archives
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Medical
|
website, corporate memory of the Rochester General Health System and includes the Baker-Cederberg Museum and Archives with exhibits on the history of medicine in Rochester, New York, the Genesee Hospital Archives and the archival records of other area hospitals
|
Rochester Museum and Science Center
|
|
Rochester
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Science
|
|
Rockland Center for the Arts
|
|
West Nyack
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Art
|
Cultural center with exhibition gallery
|
Rockwell Museum
|
|
Corning
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Art
|
American and Native American art and artifacts
|
Roe Cobblestone Schoolhouse
|
|
Butler
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Education
|
Operated by the Butler Historical Society
|
Roeliff Jansen Historical Society Museum
|
|
Copake Falls
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
Located in a historic church building
|
Rogers Island Visitors Center
|
|
Fort Edward
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
History
|
website, history of Rogers Island, area prehistory, culture and military history up to the American Revolution
|
Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History
|
|
Jamestown
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Natural history
|
website
|
Rome Historical Society Museum
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website
|
Rome Sports Hall of Fame and Museum
|
|
Rome
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Sports
|
website
|
Romulus Historical Society Museum
|
|
Romulus
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Roscoe Ontario & Western Railway Museum
|
|
Roscoe
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Railroad
|
website, information
|
Rose Hill Mansion
|
|
Fayette
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Geneva Historical Society, mid-19th-century mansion
|
Rough and Ready Firehouse Museum
|
|
Greenwich
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Firefighting
|
Open once a year for tours[46]
|
Roxbury Railroad Station Museum
|
|
Roxbury
|
Delaware
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Railroad
|
|
Rural Life Museum
|
|
King Ferry
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, operated by Genoa Historical Association, one-room schoolhouse, household, agriculture and rural life artifacts
|
Rushford Museum
|
|
Rushford
|
Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
information, operated by the Rushford Historical Society
|
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art
|
|
Clinton
|
Oneida
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Art
|
Part of Hamilton College, changing exhibits of art and photography
|
Ruth Howe-Prescott House
|
|
Franklinville
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
website, information, open by appointment with the Ischua Valley Historical Society
|
Sackets Harbor Art Center
|
|
Sackets Harbor
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Art
|
website, home of the Arts Association of Northern New York
|
Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site
|
|
Sackets Harbor
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Military
|
War of 1812 military reenactments in the summer
|
Safe Haven Museum and Education Center
|
|
Oswego
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
History
|
Stories of the 982 refugees from World War II who were allowed into the United States as "guests" of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, housed at Fort Ontario
|
Saint Marianne Cope Shrine and Museum
|
|
Syracuse
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Religious
|
website, shrine and museum with relics and exhibits about the life of Marianne Cope
|
Saint Paul's Church National Historic Site
|
|
Mount Vernon
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Religious
|
Includes museum of the American Revolution
|
Salamanca Historical Museum
|
|
Salamanca
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Facebook site, information, operated by the Salamanca Historical Society
|
Salamanca Rail Museum
|
|
Salamanca
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Railroad
|
information
|
Salmon River International Sport Fishing Museum
|
|
Altmar
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Sports
|
website, antique fishing rods, rare lures, reels and tackle
|
Salt Museum
|
|
Liverpool
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Industry - Salt
|
Located in Onondaga Lake Park, history of salt production in Syracuse
|
Salvation Army Heritage Museum
|
|
West Nyack
|
Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Religious
|
Facebook site, mission and history of the Salvation Army[47]
|
Sampson State Park Military Museum
|
|
Romulus
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Military
|
|
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
|
|
New Paltz
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
website, part of SUNY New Paltz, collections include American art with an emphasis on the Hudson Valley and Catskill Regions, 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century photography and metals
|
Sanborn Area Historical Society Farm Museum and Schoolhouse Museum
|
|
Sanborn
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Agriculture
|
website Archived 2017-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
|
Sands Ring Homestead Museum
|
|
Cornwall
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Colonial era house
|
Santanoni Preserve
|
|
Newcomb
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Tours of the buildings of the former camp
|
Saranac Laboratory Museum
|
|
Saranac Lake
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Science
|
website, operated by Historic Saranac Lake, 1894 laboratory of Edward Livingston Trudeau
|
Saratoga Automobile Museum
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Automotive
|
|
Saratoga Harness Hall of Fame & Museum
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Sports
|
Facebook site, harness museum with sulkies, racing silks, blacksmith works, horseshoes and metal sculptures[48]
|
Saratoga National Historical Park
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
History
|
Preserves the site of the Battles of Saratoga, includes Schuyler House
|
Saratoga Springs History Museum
|
|
Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
Located in the former Canfield Casino
|
Sardinia Historical Society Museum
|
|
Sardinia
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
|
Saugerties Light
|
|
Saugerties
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Lighthouse
|
|
Schenectady County Historical Society Museum
|
|
Schenectady
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Local history
|
|
Schenectady Museum
|
|
Schenectady
|
Schenectady
|
Capital District
|
Science
|
|
Sci-Tech Center of Northern New York
|
|
Watertown
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Science
|
website
|
Schoharie Crossing State Historic Site
|
|
Glen
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Canals
|
Visitor center and remains of an Erie Canal aqueduct
|
Schoharie Valley Railroad Museum
|
|
Schoharie
|
Schoharie
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Railroad
|
website, operated by the Schoharie Colonial Heritage Association
|
Schoolhouse No. 8 History Center & Museum
|
|
North Collins
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Education
|
website, one-room rural schoolhouse
|
School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences Museum of the University at Buffalo
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Medical
|
website, open by appointment, part of the School of Pharmacy at SUNY Buffalo, includes turn-of-the-20th-century apothecary, raw drugs, patent medicines, pharmacy artifacts
|
Schroeppel Historical Society Museum
|
|
Phoenix
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
information
|
Schroon-North Hudson Historical Museum
|
|
Schroon Lake
|
Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society
|
Schuyler Mansion
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
18th-century period house, life of Philip Schuyler
|
Science Discovery Center of Oneonta
|
|
Oneonta
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Science
|
Part of State University of New York at Oneonta
|
Sciencenter
|
|
Ithaca
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
Science
|
Hands-on science exhibits
|
Seaway Trail Discovery Center
|
|
Sackets Harbor
|
Jefferson
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
Culture and heritage of the Great Lakes Seaway Trail and surrounding regions
|
Seneca Falls Historical Society Museum
|
|
Seneca Falls
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
website, late 19th-century Victorian period house
|
Seneca-Iroquois National Museum
|
|
Salamanca
|
Cattaraugus
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Native American
|
website
|
Seneca Museum of Waterways and Industry
|
|
Seneca Falls
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, area canals, industry
|
Senate House State Historic Site
|
|
Kingston
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
Site of the state's new government during the American Revolution, local history and art displays
|
Shacksboro Schoolhouse Museum
|
|
Baldwinsville
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, administered by McHarrie's Legacy
|
Shaker Museum | Mount Lebanon
|
|
New Lebanon
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Religious
|
Located at Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, seasonal exhibitions of Shaker artifacts, and guided walking tours of the historic site
|
Shako:wi Cultural Center
|
|
Oneida
|
Madison
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Native American
|
website, history and culture of the Oneida Nation
|
Sharon Museum Complex
|
|
Sharon
|
Schoharie
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Local history
|
Includes museum of local history, storage barn, one-room schoolhouse and three-room outhouse[49]
|
Sherwood House
|
|
Yonkers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Maintained by the Yonkers Historical Society, 1740 farmhouse
|
Shushan Covered Bridge Museum
|
|
Shushan
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Mid-19th-century covered bridge with period machinery and farm implements, adjacent one-room schoolhouse
|
Silas Wright House
|
|
Canton
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Historic house
|
website, home to the St. Lawrence County Historical Association, mid-19th-century period house and local history exhibits
|
Singer Castle
|
|
Dark Island
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Historic house
|
Late 19th-century castle house
|
Six Nations Indian Museum
|
|
Onchiota
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Native American
|
website
|
Skä•noñh - Great Law of Peace Center
|
|
Liverpool
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Native American
|
website
|
Skene Manor
|
|
Whitehall
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
19th century house
|
Skenesborough Museum
|
|
Whitehall
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Slabsides
|
|
West Park
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Log cabin built by naturalist John Burroughs
|
Slate Valley Museum
|
|
Granville
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Industry - Slate
|
website, shows how slate is formed and quarried
|
Smith Tavern
|
|
Armonk
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
Operated by the North Castle Historical Society
|
Snyder Estate
|
|
Rosendale
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Operated by the Century House Historical Society, includes the Century House, Widow Jane Mine and Cement Industry Museum
|
Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
|
|
Sodus Point
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Lighthouse
|
Lighthouse, keeper's quarters and lighthouse artifacts
|
Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park
|
|
Canandaigua
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Nine formal gardens, 1887 Queen Anne-style mansion and greenhouse complex
|
Southeast Museum
|
|
Brewster
|
Putnam
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, located in the Old Southeast Town Hall
|
Spafford Area Historical Society
|
|
Spafford
|
Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Local history
|
Operates the Spafford District #3 Side Hill School and the Grange Building by appointment
|
Sports Museum of Dutchess County
|
|
Wappingers Falls
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Sports
|
Located at Carnwath Farms Historic Site & Park
|
Springwater Webster Crossing Historical Society
|
|
Springwater
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, museum open on a limited basis
|
Springville Center for the Arts
|
|
Springville
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
Community multi-disciplinary arts center with gallery
|
Square House Museum
|
|
Rye
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Rye Historical Society, includes 18th-century period tavern rooms
|
St. Lawrence Power and Equipment Museum
|
|
Madrid
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Agriculture
|
website, antique engines, tractors and related farm equipment
|
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
|
|
Staatsburg
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Mansion designed by McKim, Mead, and White
|
Stafford Museum of History
|
|
Stafford
|
Genesee
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Stafford Historical Society
|
Starr Clark Tin Shop & Underground Rail Road
|
|
Mexico
|
Oswego
|
Thousand Islands
|
History
|
Working tin shop that was the hub of the Abolitionist movement in Oswego County
|
Steepletop
|
|
Austerlitz
|
Columbia
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
Home of author Edna St. Vincent Millay
|
Stepping Stones
|
|
Katonah
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Home of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Bill W. and his wife Lois Burnham Wilson, founder of Al-Anon/Alateen, open by appointment
|
Stickley Museum
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Fayetteville
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Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
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Decorative arts
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website, Stickley furniture
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Storm King Art Center
|
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Mountainville
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Sculpture park
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Outdoor sculpture park on 500 acres (2.0 km2)
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Stone Arabia Schoolhouse Museum
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Cicero
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Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Education
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Operated by the Cicero Historical Society, one-room schoolhouse and nearby log cabin
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Stone Mills Museum
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Orleans
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Jefferson
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Thousand Islands
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Agriculture
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Maintained by the Northern New York Agricultural Historical Society, includes a sawmill, granary, school house, church, display buildings and farm machinery
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Stone Quarry Hill Art Park
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Cazenovia
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Madison
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Central Leatherstocking
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Sculpture park
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Outdoor art park on 108 acres (0.44 km2)
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Stone-Tolan House Museum
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Brighton
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Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
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Operated by the Landmark Society, turn-of-the-19th-century house and tavern
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Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site
|
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Stony Point
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Rockland
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Lower Hudson
|
Military
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Revolutionary War site of the Battle of Stony Point
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Stony Point Light
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Stony Point
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Rockland
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Lower Hudson
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Maritime
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Located in Stony Point Battlefield State Historic Site, restored 19th-century lighthouse
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The Strong
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Rochester
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Monroe
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Finger Lakes
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Children's
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History of play and toys in American culture, includes The National Museum of Play, the National Toy Hall of Fame and the International Center for the History of Electronic Games
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Strand Center for the Arts
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Plattsburgh
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Clinton
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Adirondack Region
|
Art
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Performing and visual arts center with a gallery
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Suffern Railroad Museum
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Suffern
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Rockland
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Lower Hudson
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Railroad
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[50]
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Suffern Village Museum
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Suffern
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Rockland
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Lower Hudson
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Local history
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[51]
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Suggett House Museum
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Cortland
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Cortland
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Finger Lakes
|
Local history
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website, home of the Cortland County Historical Society
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Sullivan County Museum
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Hurleyville
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
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website, home of the Sullivan County Historical Society
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Sunnyside
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Tarrytown
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Westchester
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Lower Hudson
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Historic house
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Home of noted early American author Washington Irving
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Sunshine Radio Museum
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Sodus
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Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Technology
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website, early years of the electronics industry starting from the turn of the 20th century up to the 1970s
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Susan B. Anthony House
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Rochester
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Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
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Life and work of women's rights leader Susan B. Anthony
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Susan C. Lyman Historical Museum
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Norwood
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St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website
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Swart-Wilcox House
|
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Oneonta
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Historic house
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Operated by the Greater Oneonta Historical Society
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Syracuse University Art Museum
|
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Syracuse
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Onondaga
|
Central New York
|
Art
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website, several galleries at Syracuse University
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Tabor-Wing House
|
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Dover Plains
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
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Restored early 19th-century house
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Taconic State Park – Copake Falls area
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Copake
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Columbia
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Capital District
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Industry - Iron
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Features the Iron Works Museum about the 19th-century iron works
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Tang Teaching Museum
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Saratoga Springs
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Art
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Part of Skidmore College, contemporary art
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Tanglewood Nature Center & Museum
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Elmira
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Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Natural history
|
website, live animals and natural history exhibits
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TAUNY
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Canton
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St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Art
|
website, officially Traditional Arts in Upstate New York, exhibits of area folk culture and crafts
|
Tefft-Steadman House
|
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Marcellus
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
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Operated by the Marcellus Historical Society
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Ten Broeck Mansion
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Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
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Headquarters of the Albany County Historical Association, mid-19th-century period house
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Ten Mile River Scout Museum
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Narrowsburg
|
Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Scouting
|
website, history and Scouting memorabilia of Ten Mile River Boy Scout Camp
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Tennie Burton Museum
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Lima
|
Livingston
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
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website, operated by the Lima Historical Society
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Terra Cotta Museum
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Alfred
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Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
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Art
|
Operated by the Alfred Historical Society
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Terwilliger Museum
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Waterloo
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Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
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Part of the Waterloo Library & Historical Society
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Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site
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Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
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Turn-of-the-20th-century period rooms, site of the inauguration of President Theodore Roosevelt
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Thomas Cole House
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Catskill
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Greene
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
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Thomas Paine Cottage
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New Rochelle
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Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
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Cottage of American Revolutionary War hero Thomas Paine, decorated in late 18th- to early 19th-century furnishings
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Thomas Paine Memorial Museum
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New Rochelle
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Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
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Biographical
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Life of American Revolutionary War hero and author Thomas Paine
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Thousand Islands Arts Center
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Clayton
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Jefferson
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Thousand Islands
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Textile
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website, formerly The Handweaving Museum and Arts Center, features exhibits of textiles from its permanent textile collection and library, also crafts exhibits
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Thousand Islands Museum
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Clayton
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Jefferson
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Thousand Islands
|
Local history
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website, includes decoy displays and the Muskie Hall of Fame
|
Town of Chester Museum of Local History
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Chestertown
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
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website
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Throop Pharmacy Museum
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Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
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Medical
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website, historic drug store reconstructed at Albany College of Pharmacy
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Ticonderoga Heritage Museum
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Ticonderoga
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Essex
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Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, features over 38 scale models of various local industries
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Ticonderoga Historical Society
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Ticonderoga
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Essex
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
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website, non-profit organization organized in 1897 and chartered by the New York State Board of Regents in 1909; primary focus on the Adirondack Mountains and the Lakes Champlain and George regions
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Time and the Valleys Museum
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Grahamsville
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Sullivan
|
Mid-Hudson
|
History
|
website 3 floors of fun interactive exhibits, small historic village/1930s themed Lost Catskill Farm. Connecting water, people, and the Catskills
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Tinker Homestead and Farm Museum
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Henrietta
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Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Depicts farming life in the late 19th century
|
Tioga County Historical Society Museum
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Owego
|
Tioga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Top Cottage
|
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Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
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Private retreat designed by and for Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Town Line Museum
|
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Johnstown
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Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
History
|
Facebook site, 1950s diner display, memorabilia of the 1950s and 1960s
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Town of Alabama Museum
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Alabama
|
Genesee
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
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website, information
|
Town of Hume Museum
|
|
Hume
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Allegany
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Town of Hyde Park Historical Society Museum
|
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Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
Located in a former firehouse
|
Town of Niagara District School No. 2
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Niagara
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Education
|
One-room schoolhouse, operated by the Town of Niagara Historical Society
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Town of Porter Historical Society Museum
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Youngstown
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Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
[52]
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Town of Shandaken Historical Museum
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Pine Hill
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Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Local history
|
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Trailside Museums and Zoo
|
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Bear Mountain State Park
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Rockland
|
Lower Hudson
|
Natural history
|
Located in Bear Mountain State Park, rehabilitated wildlife, area's natural history, history and Native American culture
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Trailside Nature Museum
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Cross River
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Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Natural history
|
website, located in Ward Pound Ridge Reservation
|
Trolley Museum of New York
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Kingston
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Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Transportation
|
Electric trolley cars
|
Ulysses Historical Society Museum
|
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Trumansburg
|
Tompkins
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
University Art Museum at University at Albany
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Art
|
Contemporary art part of SUNY Albany
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UB Art Galleries
|
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Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, includes the UB Anderson Gallery and the UB Art Gallery at the Center for the Arts, part of University at Buffalo
|
Up Yonda Farm
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|
Bolton Landing
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Natural history
|
website, nature center with museum and trails
|
USS Slater
|
|
Albany
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Maritime
|
Cannon-class destroyer escort
|
Utica Children's Museum
|
|
Utica
|
Oneida
|
Adirondack Region
|
Children's
|
|
Valentown Museum
|
|
Victor
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Victor Historical Society
|
Van Cortlandt Manor
|
|
Croton-on-Hudson
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century manor house
|
Van Horn Mansion
|
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Newfane
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Historic house
|
Turn-of-the-20th-century period mansion
|
Van Wyck Homestead Museum
|
|
Fishkill
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Early 18th-century Dutch colonial house
|
Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site
|
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Hyde Park
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
Late 19th-century mansion and estate
|
Vestal Museum
|
|
Vestal
|
Broome
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Local history
|
website, local in the 1881 Vestal Train Station
|
Vintage Tracks Museum
|
|
Bloomfield
|
Ontario
|
Finger Lakes
|
Transportation
|
website, crawler tractors & memorabilia from the early 20th century
|
Walker House Museum
|
|
Madrid
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Madrid Historical Society
|
Walter Elwood Museum
|
|
Amsterdam
|
Montgomery
|
Mohawk Valley
|
Multiple
|
Local history, Victorian, natural history, and items that relate to Mohawk Valley's industrial past
|
Walworth Historical Society Museum
|
|
Walworth
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural Museum
|
|
Auburn
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Agriculture
|
website, handheld tools, farm equipment, carpenter and blacksmith shops, rural kitchen, bedroom, one-room school, country mercantile and dairy room
|
Warner Museum
|
|
Springville
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Concord NY Historical Society, life and memorabilia of Pop Warner, dolls, tools, 1930s kitchen, items of local interest
|
War of 1812 Museum
|
|
Plattsburgh
|
Clinton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Military
|
History of the War of 1812 and the Battle of Plattsburgh
|
Warrensburgh Museum of Local History
|
|
Warrensburg
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, operated by the Warrensburgh Historical Society
|
Warwick Historical Society
|
|
Warwick
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Open air
|
website, complex of 7 historic buildings
|
Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site
|
|
Newburgh
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
18th-century home, site of longest-serving headquarters of George Washington during the American Revolutionary War
|
Washington County Fair Farm Museum
|
|
Greenwich
|
Washington
|
Adirondack Region
|
Agriculture
|
website, open seasonally, area crops, farm equipment, displays of tools and crafts, rural life artifacts
|
Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center
|
|
Waterford
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website, located in the Hugh White Homestead
|
Waterman Conservation Education Center
|
|
Apalachin
|
Tioga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Natural history
|
website, environmental education center with museum about local wildlife
|
Watervliet Arsenal Museum
|
|
Watervliet
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Military
|
Displays on cannons and guns at the historic Iron Building
|
Watervliet Shaker Historic District
|
|
Colonie
|
Albany
|
Capital District
|
Religious
|
America's first Shaker settlement, museum and tours of the Watervliet Shaker Historic District
|
Wayland Historical Museum
|
|
Wayland
|
Steuben
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website
|
Weaver Museum
|
|
Potsdam
|
St. Lawrence
|
Thousand Islands
|
Anthropology
|
website, part of SUNY Potsdam
|
Webster Museum and Historical Society
|
|
Webster (town), New York
|
Monroe
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, Local history, school tours
|
West Monroe Historical Society Museum
|
|
West Monroe
|
Oswego
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
Facebook site
|
West Point Museum
|
|
Highland Falls
|
Orange
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Military
|
website, history and tours of the United States Military Academy
|
Westchester County Veterans Museum
|
|
Somers
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
Military
|
Located in Lasdon Park and Arboretum
|
Western New York Book Arts Center
|
|
Buffalo
|
Erie
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Art
|
website, exhibits of the printed word and image
|
White Pine Camp
|
|
Paul Smiths
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic camp
|
Adirondack Great Camp open for tours
|
Wilcox Octagon House
|
|
Camillus
|
Onondaga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
|
Wild Center
|
|
Tupper Lake
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Natural history
|
|
Wilder Homestead
|
|
Malone
|
Franklin
|
Adirondack Region
|
Historic house
|
Boyhood home of Almanzo Wilder
|
Wilderstein
|
|
Rhinebeck
|
Dutchess
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Historic house
|
19th-century Queen Anne–style country house
|
Wildlife Sports and Educational Museum
|
|
Vail Mills
|
Fulton
|
Adirondack Region
|
Natural history
|
website, animal mounts, art, artifacts and memorabilia of hunting, fishing and all sports afield
|
William H. Seward House
|
|
Auburn
|
Cayuga
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
19th-century period home of William H. Seward, exhibits about his life and family
|
William Pryor Letchworth Museum
|
|
Castile
|
Wyoming
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Native American
|
Located in Letchworth State Park
|
Williamson-Pultneyville Historical Society
|
|
Pultneyville
|
Wayne
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
website, exhibits of local history
|
Wilson Historical Museum
|
|
Wilson
|
Niagara
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Wilton Heritage Society Museum
|
|
Wilton
|
Saratoga
|
Adirondack Region
|
Local history
|
website
|
Wings of Eagles Discovery Center
|
|
Horseheads
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Aviation
|
website, collection of airplanes and helicopters
|
Woodstock Artists Association & Museum
|
|
Woodstock
|
Ulster
|
Mid-Hudson
|
Art
|
website, work in all media by area artists
|
Women's Rights National Historical Park
|
|
Seneca Falls
|
Seneca
|
Finger Lakes
|
History
|
|
World Awareness Children's Museum
|
|
Glens Falls
|
Warren
|
Adirondack Region
|
Children's
|
website, cultural awareness museum for children
|
Yager Museum of Art & Culture
|
|
Oneonta
|
Otsego
|
Central Leatherstocking
|
Multiple
|
Part of Hartwick College, art, archaeology, Native American artifacts
|
Yates County History Center
|
|
Penn Yan
|
Yates
|
Finger Lakes
|
Local history
|
Operated by the Yates County Genealogical and Historical Society, includes the L. Caroline Underwood Museum, Oliver House Museum & Scherer Carriage House
|
Yorker Museum
|
|
Sinclairville
|
Chautauqua
|
Buffalo Niagara Region
|
Local history
|
Facebook site, reconstructed mini village with six restored buildings, depicting Sherman life in the mid-19th century
|
Yorktown Museum
|
|
Yorktown Heights
|
Westchester
|
Lower Hudson
|
History
|
website, features 18th-century Colonial rooms, farming, dolls and miniatures, railroad and Native American exhibits
|
Zadock Pratt Museum
|
|
Prattsville
|
Greene
|
Capital District
|
Historic house
|
19th-century period house
|
Zimmerman House
|
|
Horseheads
|
Chemung
|
Finger Lakes
|
Historic house
|
Open by appointment with the Horseheads Historical Society, late 19th-century home of political cartoonist Eugene Zimmerman
|