National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Stephanie L. Kwolek
Born 1923
Achievements: Science
2003 Inductee
Elizabeth Blackwell
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Jean Kilbourne
Born 1943
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Patricia Roberts Harris
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee

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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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Bayer Offers Tribute to Dr. Blackwell

By Hobart and William Smith Colleges on May 7th, 2018 Professor of Women’s Studies Betty Bayer joined a panel of distinguished speakers for the unveiling of the historic plaque marking the hospital founded by Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell Class of 1849, the first woman in...

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The Hall Mourns Congresswoman Louise Slaughter

1929-2018 Long-time friend and colleague of National Women’s Hall of Fame, Louise Slaughter will long be remembered and honored for her steady and true leadership. In Louise Slaughter we have a woman whose leadership stood on the ground of history while shaping a more...

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