Some Great Upstate NY Museums
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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM (EXCLUDING NEW YORK CITY)
Hanford Mills Museum, in East Meredith, NY, on your museum list. www.hanfordmills.org A working, waterpower driven, 19th century woodworking factory and farm
Adirondack Museum
http://www.adkmuseum.org
Albany Institute of History and Art
http://www.albanyinstitute.org
Amherst (NY) Museum
http://www.amherstmuseum.org
Baseball Hall of Fame (Cooperstown)
http://www.baseballhalloffame.org
Bicycle Museum (12 miles south of Buffalo)
http://www.pedalinghistory.com/
Boswell Museum
http://www.boswellmuseum.org
(For the Jazz enthusiasts!)
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
http://www.brooklynkids.org
Childrens Museum at Saratoga
www.childrensmuseumatsaratoga.org
Children’s Museum of Utica, NY
Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum Cold Spring, Long Island)
http://www.cshwhalingmuseum.org
Empire State Railroad Museum (Phoenicia, NY)
http://www.esrm.com/esrm/default.html
Erie Canal Museum (Syracuse)
http://www.eriecanalmuseum.org
Farmer’s Museum (Cooperstown)
http://farmersmuseum.org
Fort Ticonderoga (Ticonderoga, NY)
http://www.fort-ticonderoga.org
Fort William Henry Museum (Lake George)
(site of Last of the Mohigans)
http://www.fwhmuseum.com
Franklin County Historical Museum (beautiful Victorian)
http://www.franklinhistory.org
FDR Historical Society (Hyde Park)
http://www.nps.gov/archive/hofr/hofrhome.html
Genesee County Museum (outside Rochester)
Recreated old village
http://www.gcv.org
George Eastman House
outside Rochester-“say cheese”
http://www.eastman.org
The U. Grant House (seasonal)
where Ulysses Grant lived
http://www.granthome.com/grant_home.htm
Harriett Tubman home (Auburn, NY)
http://www.nyhistory.com/harriettubman
Hart-Cluett House (Troy)
Hudson River Maritime Museum
Hudson River Museum (Yonkers)
http://www.hrm.org/
Hyde Collection Art Museum (Glens Falls)
http://www.hydecollection.org/
Iroquois Indian Museum (Howe Caves, near Cobleskil, NY)
http://www.iroquoismuseum.org/
RPI Science, in Rensselaer
http://www.cyhaus.com/jrmuseum
Long Island Light Houses!
http://www.longislandlighthouses.com
I Love Lucy Museum! (Jamestown, NY)
http://www.lucy-desi.com/
Love Opera? You’re not alone (Lake George)
http://www.operamuseum.com
Mid-Hudson Children’s Museum (Poughkeepsie)
http://www.mhcm.org/new/pages/home.htm
Military Museum (Saratoga)
www.nymilitarymuseum.org
Montauk Light House Museum
If you visit Montauk, can’t miss it!
<http://www.montauklighthouse.com/>
Museum of Natural History
and Hayden Planetarium
www.amnh.org
haydenplanetarium.org
Museum of the City of New York
http://www.mcny.org/
National Racing Museum (Saratoga)
and Hall of Fame
http://www.racingmuseum.org
Natural History Museum of (Tupper Lake)
the Adirondacks
http://www.wildcenter.org
New York Food Museum
http://www.nyfoodmuseum.org
New York State Museum
http://www.nysm.nysed.gov
Saratoga Automobile Museum
www.saratogaautomuseum.com
Schenectady Museum (Schenectady, NY)
(great planetarium)
http://www.schenectadymuseum.org
Toy Town Museum
http://www.toytownusa.com