National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Lucretia Mott
Born 1793
Achievements: Humanities
1983 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Barret Dyer
Born 1611
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Barbara Holdridge
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business
2001 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Beatrice A. Hicks
Born 1919
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Ella Grasso
Born 1919
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Maya Angelou
Born 1928
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Charlotte Anne Bunch
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1996 Inductee
Kate Stoneman
Born 1841
Achievements: Government
2009 Inductee
Beverly Sills
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 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.

Give today. Because every woman’s story deserves to be heard—and remembered.

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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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