National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Flossie Wong-Staal
Born 1947
Achievements: Science
2019 Inductee
Maria Tallchief
Born 1925
Achievements: Arts
1996 Inductee
Ina May Gaskin
Born 1940
Achievements: Science
2013 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Angela Davis
Born 1944
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Sacagawea / Sacajawea / Sakakawea
Born c.1788
Achievements: Humanities
2003 Inductee
Helen Stephens
Born 1918
Achievements: Athletics
1993 Inductee
Barbara Iglewski
Born 1938
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Emma Smith DeVoe
Born 1848
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Mary Baker Eddy
Born 1821
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sally Ride
Born 1951
Achievements: Science
1988 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ruby Bridges
Born 1954
Achievements: Humanities
2024 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Ida Tarbell
Born 1857
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Bessie Coleman
Born 1892
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Swanee Hunt
Born 1950
Achievements: Philanthropy
2007 Inductee
Joy Harjo
Born 1951
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Katharine Dexter McCormick
Born 1875
Achievements: Humanities, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee

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Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened to learn of the passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Korbel Albright. “As a refugee whose family fled first from the Nazis and later from the Communists,...

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Letter from the ED: Dreaming Big in 2022

Dear friends, The beginning of a new year is a time for reflection, renewal, and rejuvenation.  It’s also a time to DREAM BIG about how the next 12 months can transform our lives – be that a result...

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The Board and staff at the NWHF are saddened to announce that 2011 Inductee Helen Murry Free has passed away at the age of 98. She was a pioneering chemist who worked alongside her husband to...

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened and heartbroken about the passing of 1996 NWHF Inductee, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay. Holladay founded and established The National Museum of Women in the...

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News & Events

Letter from the ED: Taking Time to Absorb Hope

Margaret Sánchez turned off her TV for two days following the National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She wanted time to “absorb the hope.”    I can’t imagine a higher compliment for the National Women’s Hall of Fame and its mission. At our core, we exist to...

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Letter from the ED: Uplifting Women’s Voices

This isn’t the start to the “In Her Words” message I intended to write. This week marks my one year anniversary with the National Women’s Hall of Fame and my first draft began with a reflection from last summer.   Then last Friday, I suffered an injury at home. I’ll...

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