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!

Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Mother Marianne Cope
Born 1838
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Victoria Jackson
Born 1955
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Jane Fonda
Born 1937
Achievements: Arts, Government, Humanities
2019 Inductee
Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
Born 1810
Achievements: Humanities
1996 Inductee
Michelle Obama
Born 1964
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2021 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Myra Bradwell
Born 1831
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Carrie Chapman Catt
Born 1859
Achievements: Humanities
1982 Inductee
Elizabeth Jane Cochran
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts
1998 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Lorraine Hansberry
Born 1930
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Born 1947
Achievements: Government
2005 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 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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