On View Through March 2, 2025 In celebration of the 2025 Lunar New Year, the New York State Museum is thrilled to announce exciting updates to the ongoing exhibition of the Tuck High Co. Chinatown Store, including refreshed graphics and the add...

In September 2024, the Arts Center of the Capital Region opened a juried pottery exhibition titled, Little Brown Jug. Ceramic artists were sent a historic slip for their contemporary pottery. These pieces won the exhibit’s best in show and showcas...

On view September 10, 2024, through October 6, 2024, in the World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response Gallery Two-year old Sadako Sasaki lived with her mother and grandmother in Hiroshima, Japan. On August 6, 1945, the family was...

July 1 through December 3, 2023   |   NYSM Lobby Join the New York State Museum in celebrating the release of the second edition of The Motorcycle Industry In New York State: A Concise Encyclopedia of Inventors, Builders, an...

On view in New York Metropolis Hall Commemorating the 982 Jewish Holocaust refugees who found temporary respite at Fort Ontario, Oswego, New York, during World War II, "The Fort Ontario Refugee Shelter (1944–1946)" tells the poignant story of r...

On view in New York Metropolis Hall It is estimated that within the United States, the sale of black-market ivory is a $23 billion industry. New York City is the center of this disturbing business. Between 2015 and 2018 the New Yor...

On view in New York Metropolis Hall  The State Museum’s collections represent the diverse achievements of women across New York. This new exhibit feature brings together objects and artworks that highlight the contributions of women. Audie...

In 1846, New York State enacted a law requiring African American men to own $250 worth of property to vote. To circumvent this unjust law, radical abolitionist Gerrit Smith gave away 120,000 acres of land in Essex and Franklin Counties, New York, ...

David Grant Noble (1939–present) photographed Mohawk steelworkers at 450 Park Avenue and 53rd Street in Midtown Manhattan. They were from the Kahnawake Mohawk Reserve on the St. Lawrence River. During the week most of the men lived in North Gowanu...

The New York State Museum is pleased to announce a panel exhibition highlighting the 50-year history of the Pride Center of the Capital Region, the oldest continuously operating LGBTQ+ community center in the country. To commemorate the Pride Cent...

In October 2015 the Museum opened a newly renovated area of Bird Hall - "Tidal Bays and Marshes". There are a total of six "bays" in Bird Hall, and Museum staff will be renovating each bay to give visitors a renewed Birds of New York exhibiti...

On June 15, 2015, State Museum Director Mark Schaming presented a renovation master plan for the Museum's galleries to the New York State Board of Regents. The master plan calls for 35,000 square feet of new exhibitions, a changeable wall system a...