National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Anna Jacobson Schwartz
Born 1915
Achievements: Business
2013 Inductee
Maria Goeppert-Mayer
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1996 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Martha Matilda Harper
Born 1857
Achievements: Business
2003 Inductee
Donna de Varona
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2003 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Zora Neale Hurston
Born 1891
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Temple Grandin
Born 1947
Achievements: Education, Humanities, Science
2017 Inductee
Louise Slaughter
Born 1929
Achievements: Education, Government
2019 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Carlotta Walls LaNier
Born 1942
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Dorothea Lange
Born 1895
Achievements: Arts
2003 Inductee
Billie Holiday
Born 1915
Achievements: Arts
2011 Inductee
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
Born 1878
Achievements: Science
1995 Inductee
Lydia Moss Bradley
Born 1816
Achievements: Business, Philanthropy
1998 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Fannie Lou Hamer
Born 1917
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Emma Lazarus
Born 1849
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Gloria Allred
Born 1941
Achievements: Business, Government
2019 Inductee
Nannerl O. Keohane
Born 1940
Achievements: Education
1995 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Catherine Filene Shouse
Born 1896
Achievements: Arts, Philanthropy
2007 Inductee

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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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Giving Tuesday Now Contest

Hey kids—have you ever thought about which one of our Inductees inspires you the most? It's so hard to choose just one! We would like you to write an essay or draw a picture of an Inductee who...

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News & Events

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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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, Secretary Albright represents the highest ideals and aspirations of...

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