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.

Angelina Grimké Weld
Born 1805
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ella Fitzgerald
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1995 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Lilly Ledbetter
Born 1938
Achievements: Humanities
2011 Inductee
Anna Wessels Williams
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Betty Bumpers
Born 1925
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Muriel Siebert
Born 1928
Achievements: Business
1994 Inductee
Emily Howell Warner
Born 1939
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Sophia Smith
Born 1796
Achievements: Education, Philanthropy
2000 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Julia Ward Howe
Born 1819
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Born 1862
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
1988 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Mary Ann Shadd Cary
Born 1823
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Barbara A. Mikulski
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
2011 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Susan Kelly-Dreiss
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Judith Plaskow
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Sarah Deer
Born 1972
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Antoinette Blackwell
Born 1825
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee

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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...

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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...

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In Her Words: My Mother’s Story Is My Story

Our staff regularly hears from people who learn about the achievements of one of our Inductees and exclaim, “How did I not know about this person before now?”  Of course, we know the answer.  Women have been left out of the history books. Their contributions were not...

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