National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

 

 

Groups welcome!

Sarah Grimké
Born 1792
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Wilma L. Vaught
Born 1930
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Annie Oakley
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1993 Inductee
Anne Hutchinson
Born 1591
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Helen Keller
Born 1880
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Aretha Franklin
Born 1942
Achievements: Arts
2020 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Janet D. Rowley
Born 1925
Achievements: Science
2017 Inductee
Matilda Raffa Cuomo
Born 1931
Achievements: Education, Government, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Faye Glenn Abdellah
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Esther Peterson
Born 1906
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee

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News & Events

Fall Street Location is Closed

We will reopen at 1 Canal St in early summer of 2020. Check back for details or follow us on social media. We look forward to welcoming you to our new space!

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Our current location is closing!

Thank you to all who helped make Induction 2019 a success! We are pleased to announce that National Women’s Hall of Fame will be closing our current location at the end of October. We will reopen at 1 Canal St in spring of 2020. Check back for details or follow us on...

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Ginny Ryan: The Keeper of the Flame

A third grade assignment to tell the story of someone else’s life was all it took to hook Ginny Ryan on reporting. At Cardinal Mooney High School and at Buffalo State College, she wrote for the school papers and worked at the campus radio and television stations,...

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Welcome our newest 2019 Inductee Diane von Furstenberg!

Icon of Fashion Design and Philanthropist Diane von Furstenberg is a fashion designer, philanthropist, and Founder and Chairman of the company that bears her name. In 1974, she debuted her iconic wrap dress, which became a symbol of power and independence for women...

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