National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Patsy Takemoto Mink
Born 1927
Achievements: Government
2003 Inductee
Maya Y. Lin
Born 1959
Achievements: Arts
2005 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Ella Baker
Born 1903
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Kate Mullany
Born 1845
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
Born 1858
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Diane von Furstenberg
Born 1946
Achievements: Arts, Business
2019 Inductee
Eunice Kennedy Shriver
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1998 Inductee
Edith Nourse Rogers
Born 1881
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
Born 1922
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1996 Inductee
Harriet Tubman
Born c.1820
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Sonia Sotomayor
Born 1954
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Maria Mitchell
Born 1818
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Frances Perkins
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1982 Inductee
Emily Dickinson
Born 1830
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
Born 1842
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Born 1890
Achievements: Science
2000 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee

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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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Letter from the ED: Every month is Women’s History Month

Dear Friends,  March is Women’s History Month. Black History Month (February), Asian American Heritage Month (May), Pride Month (June), Native American Heritage Month (November) are but a few of the other occasions we have to honor people and communities who have been...

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