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Walt Whitman Birthplace Museum
Huntington Station, New York

Wantagh Preservation Society
Wantagh, New York

History

Warsaw Historical Museum
Warsaw, New York

Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site
Newburg, New York

Art

Waterford Historical Museum
Waterford, New York

History

Wave Hill
Bronx, New York

History

Weinberg Nature Center
Scarsdale, New York

History

Westchester County Historical Society
Elmsford, New York

Historical Society

White Plains Historical Society
White Plains, New York

Historical Society

Whitney Museum of American Art
New York, New York

Art

Walter Elwood Museum
Amsterdam, New York

Children's, General, History, Library

The museum collection is housed in a 100-year old brick building which formerly served as an elementary school. Our extensive assortment of approximately 25,000 artifacts fall into four categories: multicultural, Victorian, natural history, and items that relate to Mohawk Valley's colorful industrial past (documentary, photographic and tangible).
The Museum's collections are eclectic and diverse. In addition to "DISCOVERY!" other permanent exhibits include "A Complicated Weave: the influence of factories on the community", a Victorian Exhibit, and a Natural History exhibit. We are always developing new offerings as well as temporary exhibits by local artists.

Ward o'Hara Agricultural Museum of Cayuga County
Auburn, New York

Washington County Historical Society
Fort Edward, New York

Historical Society

Water Mill Museum
Water Mill, New York

History

Watervliet Arsenal Museum - Closed
Watervliet, New York

The Watervliet Arsenal Museum closed in Sept. 2013 due to budget cuts. http://www.troyrecord.com/lifestyle/20140819/watervliet-arsenal-museum-will-not-re-open

Wayne County Historical Society
Lyons, New York

General, History, Historic House, Historical Society

"WAYNE HISTORY 2", a quarterly newsletter for all Wayne County history educators of private/public and homeschoolers. If you would like to be put on our mailing list please call the museum at 315-946-4943 or email [email protected]. This publication is made possible by the Lyons National Bank. The Museum of Wayne County History currently offers a wide variety of educational materials for area educators. In most cases we can even tailor a program to suit your needs.

West Point Museum
West Point, New York

Art, Culture, History, Military, Specialized, University

As a department of the United States Military Academy, the Museum supports cadet academic, military and cultural instruction. Its collections include nearly all aspects of military history and encompass the history of West Point and the United States Military Academy, the evolution of warfare, and the development of the American Armed Forces. While only a portion of the collection is on display, all artifacts are available for cadet academic instruction, special exhibition and research.

Westmoreland Sanctuary
Bedford Corners, New York

White Plains Museum Gallery
White Plains, New York

Art, Library

The Museum Gallery is located on the second floor of the White Plains Public Library at 100 Martine Avenue in White Plains. The entrance to the gallery is directly up a flight of stairs (or an elevator) to a lobby area for the gallery, (handicapped equipped) after which visitors enter the gallery through a set of glass doors and immediately view the room inside (shown in the two photos). The gallery has exhibitions of local and regional artists every few months, and all the shows are free and open to the public.

Wilderness Traveling Museum
Cutchoge, New York

Archaeology, Children's, Natural History, Nature Centers

MUSEUM CONFERENCES

Small Museum Association 41st Annual Conference 2025

February 17 - 19, 2025

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Small Museum Association 41st Annual Conference 2025

Monday, February 17 - Wednesday, February 19, 2025

Gaithersburg Marriott Washingtonian Center

Gaithersburg, Maryland

Hosted by: Small Museum Association

The annual SMA conference attracts more than 300 museum professionals, board members, and volunteers from a wide variety of small museums. They attend sessions on topics ranging from collections and education to staffing and board issues.

We offer a large Museum Resource Hall and plenty of informal networking opportunities for you to talk with (and get ideas from!) other small museum professionals and volunteers

Theme for 2025: Make It Happen!!!

Is there an exhibit, program, or fundraiser that you've been talking about doing for years? Do you feel stuck because of procrastination, lack of board support, or insufficient funds? It's time to take action

At SMA 2025, small museum professionals will share their tips and tricks of how they made it happen!

2025 California Association of Museums Conference

February 18 - 22, 2025

San Fransico, California

2025 California Association of Museums Conference

Tuesday, February 18 - Saturday, February 22, 2025

San Fransico, California

Hosted by: California Association of Museums

CAM is hard at work planning for the 2025 conference, set to take place from February 18–22, 2025 in San Francisco. We look forward to highlighting best practices and innovative ideas from California's museum community

The California Association of Museums is excited to continue offering in-person programming for 2025. We will not be requiring proof of COVID vaccination/s, but highly encourage vaccination and boosters. For the health and safety of our colleagues, masks are also encouraged (but not required). Capacity and spaces will be thoughtfully considered in the planning of this event.

For more information, please email [email protected].

Virginia Association of Museum's 2025 Annual Conference!

March 15 - 18, 2025

Blacksburg, Virginia

Virginia Association of Museum's 2025 Annual Conference!

Saturday, March 15 - Tuesday, March 18, 2025

The Inn at Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, Virginia

Hosted by: Virginia Association of Museums

2025 Conference Theme: Looking Back to the Future For the past several years, many museums have been deeply involved in planning programs and events to observe the 250th birthday of the United States of America. While this is certainly an occasion to celebrate, this anniversary also forces us as a society to reckon with ongoing inequities and challenges within the US that go back to its inception. As museums ask their audiences to look to the past to understand the present and shape a better future, perhaps now is a good moment in time for Virginia’s museum community to take pause and look back at its own history. We are excited to see you in Blacksburg in March 2025 as we take a moment in our hectic schedules to take pause and visit our diverse pasts. Let’s uncover and share our histories to build a more resilient Virginia museum community.

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

September 10 - 13, 2025

Cincinnati, Ohio

2025 Am Assoc for State and Local History Annual Conference

Wednesday, September 10 - Saturday, September 13, 2025

TBD

Cincinnati, Ohio

Hosted by: American Association for State and Local History

The 2025 AASLH Annual Conference, in partnership with Ohio Local History Alliance, will take place as the history field makes the final preparations to kickoff off the 250th commemoration of the founding of the United States.

The 2025 conference theme, inspired by AASLH’s Making History at 250: The Field Guide for Semiquincentennial, is an opportunity to broadly explore one of the guide’s themes, The American Experiment. For many in the American colonies in 1776, independence from Britain represented a “leap into the dark” into an unknown future

We are excited for you to join us in Cincinnati as we encourage discussion about our democracy and civic institutions and how they can help strengthen understanding, inspire action, and reveal ways that all of us can participate in and shape the ongoing American experiment.

For more information, please call 615-320-3203 or email [email protected].

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