93 Other Museums Around Rochester

We’re all familiar with the big four museums around Rochester: Rochester Museum and Science Center, The Strong National Museum of Play, George Eastman Museum, and the Memorial Art Gallery.

Those are exceptional museums—incredible!—but now it’s time to explore some lesser-know, off-the-beaten-path, and odd-collection museums. I think you’ll find them fascinating!

Conventional, just out of town:

1. National Comedy Center + Lucy-Desi Museum
2. Museum of the Earth
3. Sonnenberg Gardens & Mansion State Historic Park
4. Albright-Knox Art Gallery
5. Explore & More Children’s Museum
6. Buffalo Museum of Science
7. Museum of Science and Technology
8. Sciencecenter
9. The Buffalo History Museum
10. Everson Museum of Art
11. Ferguson Planetarium
12. UB Anderson Gallery
13. Arnot Art Museum
14. Corning Museum of Glass
15. New Deal Gallery
16. The Rockwell Museum

Living History Museums around Rochester

1. Genesee Country Village & Museum
2. Old Fort Niagara
3. Heritage Village of the Southern Finger Lakes
4. Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
5. Historic Fort Ontario
6. Newtown Battlefield
7. Hill Cumorah Visitors Center
8. Ward O’Hara Agricultural & Country Living Museum & Dr. Joseph F. Karpinski Sr. Educational Center

Less-known in the Rochester Area

1. ARTISANworks
2. Rochester Contemporary Art Center
3. Art Museum of Rochester

Unconventional collection museums around Rochester

1. Brain Museum at the University at Buffalo
2. Lackawanna Steel Museum
3. Jell-O Gallery
4. Rochester Medical Museum & Archives
5. The Peppermint Museum
6. All Things Oz Museum
7. It’s a Wonderful Life Museum
8. Salt Museum

Transportation & Innovation museums around Rochester

1. Edgerton Model Railroad Room
2. New York Museum of Transportation
3. Rochester & Genesee Valley Railroad Museum
4. Sam Patch Erie Canal Boat Tours
5. Arcade & Attica Railroad
6. Niagara Power Vista
7. Glenn Curtiss Museum
8. Buffalo & Erie County Naval and Military Park
9. Herschell Carrousel Factory
10. Salamanca Rail Museum
11. Buffalo Transportation Piece Arrow Museum
12. Finger Lakes Boating Museum
13. Sims’ Museum
14. Medina Railroad Museum
15. Niagara Aerospace Museum
16. Hornell Erie Depot Museum and Toy Soldier Museum
17. Rochester Auto Museum
18. National Warplane Museum
19. Antique Wireless Museum
20. National Soaring Museum
21. Erie Canal Museum
22. Martisco Station Museum
23. Spencerport Depot & Canal Museum
24. Erie Canal Discovery Center

Historic Places

1. National Susan B. Anthony Museum & House
2. Ganondagan Historic Site
3. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House Complex
4. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Graycliff Estate
5. Elbert Hubbard Roycroft Museum
6. High Falls Center & Interpretive Museum
7. Clara Barton House
8. Seward House & Museum
9. Corning’s Gaffer District
10. Letchworth Museums
11. Millard Fillmore House
12. Granger Homestead & Carriage Museum
13. Holland Land Office Museum
14. Livingston County Historical Society Museum
15. Historic Palmyra
16. Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Area
17. Lewiston Historical Association
18. Women’s Rights National Historic Park
19. National Women’s Hall of Fame
20. Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse Museum
21. Sodus Bay Lighthouse Museum
22. Skä•noñh – Great Law of Peace Center
23. Emily L. Knapp Museum
24. Fairport Historical Museum
25. Hoffman Clock Museum
26. Stickley Museum
27. Military History Society of Rochester
28. Webster Museum
29. Stone-Tolan House
30. Tinker Homestead and Farm Museum
31. Harriet Tubman Home
32. Seneca Iroquois Museum
33. Witter Agriculture Museum
34. Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural National Historic Site

Where are your favorite museums around Rochester?

Share your thoughts with us in the comments. Your insight and experience is invaluable!