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!

Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Mary Steichen Calderone
Born 1904
Achievements: Education, Humanities
1998 Inductee
Helen Brooke Taussig
Born 1898
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Jeannette Rankin
Born 1880
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Virginia Apgar
Born 1909
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Rebecca Talbot Perkins
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2009 Inductee
Gertrude Belle Elion
Born 1918
Achievements: Science
1991 Inductee
Jane Addams
Born 1860
Achievements: Humanities
1973 Inductee
Bella Abzug
Born 1920
Achievements: Government
1994 Inductee
Shannon W. Lucid
Born 1943
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Fanny Wright
Born 1795
Achievements: Humanities
1994 Inductee
Sojourner Truth
Born c.1797
Achievements: Humanities
1981 Inductee
Rosa Parks
Born 1913
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Jane Cunningham Croly
Born 1829
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Mary Burnett Talbert
Born 1866
Achievements: Humanities
2005 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
Born 1926
Achievements: Science
2007 Inductee
Joan Ganz Cooney
Born 1929
Achievements: Arts, Business, Education
1998 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Margaret Bourke-White
Born 1904
Achievements: Arts
1990 Inductee
Katharine Graham
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts, Business
2002 Inductee
Frances E. Willard
Born 1839
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Barbara Rose Johns Powell
Born 1935
Achievements: Education, Government
2020 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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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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