National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mae Jemison
Born 1956
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Marian Anderson
Born 1897
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Florence Sabin
Born 1871
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Juliette Gordon Low
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1979 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Mary Breckinridge
Born 1881
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Catherine East
Born 1916
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Eleanor K. Baum
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Mary Lyon
Born 1797
Achievements: Education
1993 Inductee

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Latest Updates

2017 Inductee Interviews

WXXI News, Aimee Mullins One of the women soon to be inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame has been breaking through barriers her entire life. "I can do anything if I set my mind to it,...

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Embracing curiosity, facing the world

By Betty Bayer special to the Finger Lakes Times August’s summer light is giving way to September’s fall equinox in the Finger Lakes. It’s a great time to turn attention to all the things that make...

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Building benches to benefit the Hall

By Hammerstone School Did you know that the historic town of Seneca Falls, NY is just up the road from Hammerstone? This is where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, an effort which...

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CONFLUENCE: 1844 meets 2017

By Betty M. Bayer on June 26, 2017, Finger Lakes Times Confluence: a word concerned with things — places, people, ideas — flowing together may be the most apt word to describe the National Women’s...

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Help Us Honor the Women Who Shape Our World

Every story we tell, every name we enshrine, every young mind we inspire—it all starts with support from people like you.

Your donation to the National Women’s Hall of Fame helps preserve and share the legacies of American women whose courage, vision, and leadership have transformed our history. From groundbreaking exhibits to educational programs that empower future generations, your gift fuels our mission to honor the past and light the way forward.

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News & Events

Women in Wine

Join us on August 31 for this year's Confluence Dinner, a spirited evening on the Seneca Falls waterfront featuring women producers and artists of the Finger Lakes, including cider makers, chefs, farmers, glassmakers, musicians, and the wine makers featured here....

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Imagine the Conversation Contest Winner!

We asked you to Imagine the Conversation that inspired this statue, when Amelia Bloomer introduced Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. You all certainly delivered, and we received dozens of amazing submissions. A committee went through all the submissions and...

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Calling All Storytellers & Artists

July is the anniversary of the first ever Women’s Rights Convention which took place in Seneca Falls on July 19th, 1848. This July, the 20th – 22nd, we celebrate Convention Days: 170 years since the event that changed all of our lives in critical ways. Three years...

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Wondering What’s Going On at the Mill?

Wonder no more! Starting this Wednesday, July 11th at 12 o’clock noon, the National Women’s Hall of Fame will begin hosting Live Facebook Mill Updates every other Wednesday! Join us as our Gilbane Project Supervisor, Mackenzie Delaney, tours us through the...

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