Museums in New York State

Discover 91 unusual museums in New York State.

American Italian Heritage Museum

Albany, New York

American Italian Heritage Museum

The largest museum dedicated to Italian Americans on the East Coast is located in a 100-year-old church.

Brooklyn, New York

The Bone Museum

This museum dedicated to the history of the medical bone trade and human osteology.

Albion, New York

Cobblestone Museum

Intact 125-year-old carpentry shop and Victorian house, along with cobblestone architecture structures.

Grandma Moses Homestead

Eagle Bridge, New York

Grandma Moses Homestead

The farm where one of America's most famous folk artists created her paintings.

Framed items.

Brooklyn, New York

BAM Hamm Archives

A collection of playbills, photographs, and other memorabilia from the Brooklyn Academy of Music.

Waterwheel at Watermill, NY.

Water Mill, New York

Water Mill Museum

Once the center of food production for this small town.

New York, New York

Skyscraper Museum

An institution dedicated to the towering buildings that make up skylines in New York City and around the world.

Every tour begins in the basement, featuring a bar decorated in Russian vodka labels.

Staten Island, New York

Booze History Museum

Crammed into several rooms of a Staten Island home, this museum is a vodka-soaked paean to the pleasures of drinking.

Exterior of the building.

Niagara Falls, New York

Niagara Falls Underground Railroad Heritage Center

Learn about the last river many crossed to find freedom from slavery in the United States.

'Dwellings' seen at eye level

New York, New York

'Dwellings' at the Breuer Building

This miniature village stays behind in the Breuer Building, even as the museums around it come and go.

Hall featuring many of the Bronco Buster statues.

Ogdensburg, New York

Frederic Remington Art Museum

Located on the banks of the St. Lawrence River, this mansion is home to a massive art collection.

Salamanca, New York

Onöhsagwë:de’ Cultural Center

This museum pays tribute to the largest group in the Iroquois Confederacy.

Another view of the ice cave exhibit.

Ithaca, New York

Ice Age Glacial Exhibit

This exhibit allows visitors to wander through the interior of a replica Ice Age glacial cave.

Binghamton, New York

Roberson Mansion

An allegedly haunted testament to a local businessman's desire for status, posterity, and charity.

West Terrace

New York, New York

West Terrace at the Cloisters

This hidden oasis features a stunning view of the Hudson River and the Palisades from a castle-like museum.

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

Kinderhook, New York

Martin Van Buren National Historic Site

At this farm in upstate New York, the former president plotted his reelection campaign.