List of museums in New York

This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing. Museums that exist only in cyberspace (i.e., virtual museums) are not included. Also included are non-profit art centers and galleries.

• See also List of museums in New York City
• See also List of museums on Long Island for museums in Nassau and Suffolk counties
• See also List of university art museums and galleries in New York State

The list

Defunct museums

• Balmanno Cottage, Geneva, formerly operated by the Geneva Historical Society, closed in 2013^[3]
• Boswell Museum, Springfield Center, no longer any physical museum just a website, preserves music of the 1920s and 1930s
• Bridgewater Auto Museum, Bridgewater, closed in 1989 after the death of Walt Meyer, its founder^[4][5]
• Campbell-Whittlesey House Museum, Rochester, closed in 2010
• Deansboro Music Museum,^[6] Deansboro
• Dinosaur Walk Museum, Riverhead, closed in 2008, branches still exist in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee and Branson, Missouri
• Goudreau Museum of Mathematics in Art and Science, New Hyde Park, closed in 2006^[7]
• Greenwood Museum
• Harwood’s Grist Mill Farm, East Hartford^[8]
• Ithaca College Museum of Art
• Museum of Cartoon Art, Port Chester, became the National Cartoon Museum when the collection moved to Boca Raton, Florida in 1992
• Museum of Long Island Natural Sciences, formerly operated by State University of New York at Stony Brook
• National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum, Oneonta, museum closed in 2010, inductions will continue
• Pedaling History Bicycle Museum, Orchard Park, closed in 2009
• Ticonderoga Cartoon Museum, Ticonderoga, closed in 2010^[9][10]
• Tired Iron Tractor Museum, Cuylerville, collection of vintage farm machinery, tractors, trucks, horse-drawn equipment, farm toys, sold in 2013,^[11] photos
• Toy Town Museum, East Aurora, closed in 2009^[12]

Regions

The "Region" column in the sortable table can be used to help locate museums and understand which museums are in the same area. The list uses regions made up of the following counties or borroughs:

• Adirondack Region (counties all or partly in the Adirondack Park, except counties in the Capital District): Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, Saratoga, St. Lawrence, Warren, and Washington counties.
• Buffalo Niagara Region: Allegany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Erie, Genesee, Niagara, Orleans, and Wyoming counties.
• Capital District: Albany, Schenectady, Rensselaer, Columbia, Greene and Saratoga counties.
• Central Leatherstocking: Broome, Delaware, Chenango, Madison, Montgomery, Otsego, Oswego, Schoharie counties.
• Finger Lakes: Onondaga County, Cortland County, Tioga County, Chemung County, Tompkins County, Cayuga County, Seneca County, Wayne County, Monroe County, Livingston County, Ontario County, Yates County, Schuyler County, and Steuben County.
• Lower Hudson: Putnam, Rockland, and Westchester counties.
• Long Island: Nassau and Suffolk counties.
• Mid-Hudson: Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan, and Ulster counties.
• New York City: Borroughs of Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island

See also

• List of museums in New York City
• List of museums on Long Island for museums in Nassau and Suffolk counties
• List of university art museums and galleries in New York State
• List of nature centers in New York

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in New York.

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• NYC Arts - Culture Guide and Calendar
• New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

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