Genesee Country Village and Museum

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The Genesee Country Village and Museum, covering more than 600 acres (2.4 km²) is located in Mumford, New York, about 20 miles (30 km) from Rochester, New York, USA.

The Museum includes a 19th-century country village (The Historic Village), the John L. Wehle Art Gallery, the Genesee Country Nature Center, the Carriage Museum, the Silver Baseball Park, and the Heirloom Gardens. The Historic Village and Art Gallery are open to the public every day except Mondays from May through October. They are also open on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the first three weekends in December. The Nature Center is open every day except Monday, year-round. In addition, all facilities are open on Monday 29 May and Monday 4 September. An entry fee is charged.

A large Civil War reenactment is held in the museum during mid July (usually the 3rd weekend).

The Historic Village includes 68 restored and furnished buildings, ranging from simple frontier cabins to an elaborate Victorian mansion, with professional, religious, and business buildings as well.

The Wehle Art Gallery displays wildlife and sporting art created from the 1600s through the 1900s.

The Nature Center covers 175 acres of woodlands, meadows and old fields with nearly five miles of marked trails suitable for walking, hiking, skiing or snowshoeing.

The Carriage Museum displays a variety of horse-drawn carriages from the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The Silver Base Ball Park is a replical 19th ball park at which base ball is played using 1864 rules by six teams of players each Saturday and Sunday.

The Heirloom Gardens include thirteen gardens, with highlights as follows:

Jones Farm (c. 1820, Orleans, New York) - hardy crops commonly grown in the 19th-century kitchen garden, including Danvers half long carrots, early Jersey Wakefield cabbage and China rose radish.

Livingston-Backus garden - laid out in a classical style compatible with a Federal style garden house, built in 1826 in Cortland, New York, and the main residence, built in Rochester's Third Ward c. 1827-40. A wisteria-covered pergola stands at one edge of the garden and boxwood-trimmed beds of fruit trees, tulips, bearded iris, tree peonies, phlox, roses, columbine and hosta.

Hyde House garden (c. 1870, Friendship, New York) - curvilinear gardens and brick paths derived from plans in Andrew Jackson Downing's Cottage Residences, published in 1842. The lilac-rimmed garden features bearded iris, daylilies, peonies, dianthus, hosta, germander, amaranth, cleome, nicotiana, and petunias.