91 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 fabulous museums—incredible!—but now it’s time to explore some lesser-know, off-the-beaten-path, and odd-collection museums.

Conventional, just out of town:

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

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Living History Museums around Rochester

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

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Lesser-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

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Transportation & Innovation museums around Rochester

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

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Historic Places

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

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