Office of State History

The following are some examples of Women’s History Month Events taking place at museums and historical societies across New York State. Check back often for updates.

Hands-on History: Elizabeth Cisco!
Saturday, March 1, 2025
1:00pm
Rufus King Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/01/handson-history-elizabeth-cisco

Women's History Month: Historic Female Monuments in Parks
Saturday, March 1, 2025 
1:00pm
Prospect Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/01/womens-history-month-historic-female-monuments-in-parks

In-person Talk: The Cave Electrician’s Widow: The Tragedy at Howe Caverns & Dramatic Courtroom Fight for Justice
Saturday, March 1, 2025 
2:00pm
Schenectady County Historical Society
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/cudmore/

Shaping History: The Women of Niagara Falls
Saturday, March 1, 2025 
10:00am
Niagara Falls State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=46-42514.0

Keeping Space: A Women’s History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
10:00am
Buffalo History Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://buffalohistory.org/event/keeping-space-a-womens-history-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-2025/

Courtroom, Classroom, and Culture: Women’s Lives as Battlegrounds
Sunday, March 2, 2025 
2:00pm
New-York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/courtroom-classroom-and-culture-womens-lives-as-battlegrounds?date=2025-03-02

Curator’s Gallery Tour: Real Clothes, Real Lives
Monday, March 3, 2025 
11:00am
New York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/curators-gallery-tour-real-clothes-real-lives?date=2025-03-03

Always be a Lady: The Pioneering Career of Dr. Elizabeth Gillette
Tuesday, March 4, 2025 
12:00pm
Schenectady County Historical Society
In-Person Event
More information: https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/gillette/

Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
Thursday, March 6, 2025 
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13887889

Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13887889

Virtual Presentation: Real Clothes, Real Lives
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:30pm
New York Historical
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/virtual-presentation-real-clothes-real-lives?date=2025-03-07

Womens History Month: Women in Space!
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:45pm
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42368.0

Meet the Curator: Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried
Friday, March 7, 2025 
12:00pm
New York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/meet-the-curator-picture-stories-photographs-by-arlene-gottfried?date=2025-03-07

Women in Science Spotlight: Elizabeth Knight Britton
Saturday, March 8, 2025 
2:00pm
Staten Island Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/women-in-science-spotlight-elizabeth-knight-britton/

Promiscuous Assemblies: Oneida County's Women of the Underground Railroad and Abolition
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:00pm
Oneida County History Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://oneidacountyhistory.org/promiscuous-assemblies

Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in el Mundo – Saratoga Opera Event for Children
Saturday, March 8, 2025 
2:00pm
Saratoga County History Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-the-bravest-nina-in-el-mundo-saratoga-opera-event-for-children/

Women’s History Month Hike
Saturday, March 8, 2025 
10:00am
Shirley Chisholm State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=200-42732.0

Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in El Mundo - Presented by Opera Saratoga
Saturday, March 8, 2025 
11:00am
Albany Institute of History and Art
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.albanyinstitute.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-the-bravest-nina-in-el-mundo

Women's History Month: Anne Hutchinson
Sunday, March 9, 2025 
1:00pm
Pelham and Split Rock Golf Course
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/09/womens-history-month-anne-hutchinson

Womens History Month: Women in Science!
Sunday, March 9, 2025 
10:00am
Nissequogue River State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=110-42372.0

Breaking Glass Ceilings: Clara Stanton Jones and the Detroit Public Library
Wednesday, March 12, 2025 
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13218511

Water Cures and Their Role in the Temperance, Women's Rights, and Abolition Movements
Friday, March 14, 2025
1:00pm
University of Rochester Medical Center Miner Library
In-Person and Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://minercal.urmc.rochester.edu/calendar/events/water-cure

The Handbook of Black Librarianship – Trailblazing Women
Friday, March 14, 2025 
2:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/14105903

Crafty Kids Story Hour! Luck be a Lady: Women’s History Month and St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 15, 2025 
1:00pm
Clermont State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=16-42655.0

Women's History Month: Historic Women of Central Park
Saturday, March 15, 2025 
1:00pm
Central Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/15/womens-history-month-historic-women-of-central-park

Womens History Month: Art of Mary Blaire
Saturday, March 15, 2025 
10:00am
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42370.0

B.I.G. featuring Women Entrepreneurs
Saturday, March 15, 2025 
11:00am
Buffalo History Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://buffalohistory.org/event/b-i-g-featuring-women-entrepreneurs/

Women's History Month: Cass Gallagher
Sunday, March 16, 2025
11:00am
Van Cortlandt Nature Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/16/womens-history-month-cass-gallagher

Special Screening: Discovering New York Suffrage Stories
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/robert-snyder-when-the-city-stopped

Black History Women History Event
Thursday, March 20, 2025 
6:00pm
Sorrentino Recreation Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/20/black-history-women-history-event

Emma Goldman
Thursday, March 20, 2025 
11:00am
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13735578

Brainfood : Women in New York: Stories from the Collections
Friday, March 21, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/special-screening-discovering-new-york-suffrage-stories

Women of Science at the New York State Museum
Saturday, March 22, 2025
10:00am
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/brainfood-women-new-york-stories-collections

Women's History Month: Women in Conservation
Sunday, March 23, 2025 
1:00pm
Von Briesen Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/23/womens-history-month-women-in-conservation

The Mushroom Letters: A Dramatic Reading of Mary Banning & Charles Peck's Correspondence with NorthEast Theater Ensemble
Sunday, March 23, 2025
2:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/mushroom-letters-dramatic-reading-mary-banning-charles-pecks-correspondence-northeast

Alice as Artist
Sunday, March 23, 2025 
2:00pm
Clermont State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=16-42657.0

Celebrate Women’s History Month With The General’s Lady at Washington’s Headquarters
Sunday, March 23, 2025 
2:00pm
Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site
In-Person Event
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=17-42610.0

Crafting the Narrative: Media in the Suffrage Movement
Sunday, March 23, 2025 
3:00pm
National Susan B. Anthony Museum
In-Person Event
Registation Required
More information: https://susanb.org/event/crafting-the-narrative-media-in-the-suffrage-movement/

Women of World War II: On the Front Lines & Home Front
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
3:00pm
Niagara History Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://niagarahistory.org/event/women-of-world-war-ii-on-the-front-lines-home-front/

State Paleontologist Winifred Goldring and Making Fossils Come to Life
Tuesday, March 25, 2025 
12:30pm
New York Archives Partnership Trust
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/events/speaker-series/2024-2025

Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
Wednesday, March 26, 2025 
2:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13949315

She-Merchants, Sachems, and Slaves: Women in Colonial New York
Thursday, March 27, 2025
6:00pm
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=37-42678.0

Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms - A Guided Gallery Tour with Dr. Patricia Kaishian
Friday, March 28, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/outcasts-mary-banning%E2%80%99s-world-mushrooms-%E2%80%93-guided-gallery-tour-dr-patricia-kaishian

Marine Park Alliance Presents Women's History Month: Who's Inspired You?
Saturday, March 29, 2025 
1:00pm
Carmine Carro Community Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/29/marine-park-alliance-presents-womens-history-month-whos-inspired-you

Tea and Transit: Women, Tea, and Driving
Saturday, March 29, 2025 
1:00pm
King Manor Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/29/tea-and-transit

Trail Talk: Women’s History
Saturday, March 29, 2025 
10:00am
Hempstead Lake State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=31-42147.0

Tea & Talk Series: The Life & Photography of Alice Austen
Sunday, March 30, 2025 
1:00pm
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=25-42672.0