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The
Memorial Art Gallery
At the Memorial
Art Gallery, you'll find adventures in art for every
member of the family. One of the crown jewels of
Rochester's cultural district, MAG is an architectural
landmark that attracts 300,000 visitors a year.
In addition to our acclaimed permanent collection,
we offer a year-round schedule of special events,
programs and exhibitions.
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The
Genesee Country Museum
Largest living
history museum in NYS. Restored 19th-century village
with historic buildings, craftspeople in authentic
dress, nature center, gallery of wildlife and sporting
art and 19th-century vintage base ball park. Special
events, shops and restaurants. Group rates. Open
mid-May to mid-October plus special holiday programs.
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The
Margret Woodbury Strong Museum
Strong Museum’s
more than 500,000 objects include the world’s
largest and most historically significant collection
of dolls and toys, America’s most comprehensive
collections of homecrafts and souvenirs, and a nationally
important collection of advertising materials. |
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The
George Eastman House
The Eastman
House, the world’s oldest photography museum
and one of the world’s oldest film archives,
opened to the public in 1949. World-renowned for
its photograph and motion picture archives, the Museum
is also a leader in film preservation and photograph
conservation, educating the top archivists and conservators
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The
Rochester Museum and Science Center
Made up of
the Museum, Strasenburgh Planetarium, and Cummings
Nature Center. |
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The
Susan B. Anthony House
The Susan
B. Anthony House was the home of the legendary American
civil rights leader during the most politically active
period of her life, and the site of her famous arrest
for voting in 1872. Susan B. Anthony's story of courage
and determination has been told and re-told to visitors
to her Rochester, New York home on Madison Street
for more than fifty years. Today, the house is a
museum with National Historic Landmark status. The
Susan B. Anthony Preservation District is a nine-block
area around The Susan B. Anthony House and Susan
B. Anthony Square. It is one of the last intact 19th
century middle-class neighborhoods in the country
and is listed on the National Register of Historic
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Sonnenberg Gardens
Sonnenberg
Mansion & Gardens is dedicated to the preservation,
maintenance, and use of its gardens, structures,
and collections for the pleasure and education of
the community and general public in accordance with
professional museum standards. Efforts to accomplish
these goals and objectives shall explore turn-of-the-century
horticultural practices; the architectural history
of the mansion and outbuildings; the lifestyles of
Mr. & Mrs. Frederick Ferris Thompson, their family,
guests, and employees; and the adaptive uses of the
property following the death of Mrs. Thompson in
1923. |
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The
Corning Museum of Glass
The
Corning Museum of Glass (http://www.cmog.org/) is
home to the world’s most comprehensive and celebrated
collection of glass. An independent, non-profit,
educational institution, the Museum is dedicated
to the art, history, science and exhibition of glass.
The Museum is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day.
Children 17 and under receive free admission.
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Ganondagan
State Historic Site
Visit this site where thousands
of Seneca lived 300 years ago, tour a full-size replica
of a 17th-century Seneca Bark Longhouse, walk miles
of self-guided trails, climb the mesa where a huge
palisaded granary stored hundreds of thousands of
bushels of corn, and learn about the destruction
of Ganondagan, Town of Peace, in 1687. |
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