Festival of Trees
Celebrate the season as we fill our galleries with lighted fir trees! Decorated from classic to kooky Christmas styles, the Festival of Trees glows with the enchantment of the holidays.
Celebrate the season as we fill our galleries with lighted fir trees! Decorated from classic to kooky Christmas styles, the Festival of Trees glows with the enchantment of the holidays.
All SCHS sites, including Mabee Farm, the Museum, and the Library will be closed on December 24, 25, 31, and January 1. Happy holidays!
The Mabee Farm will be closed until January 1o when we reopen for the year.
All SCHS sites, including Mabee Farm, the Museum, and the Library will be closed on December 24, 25, 31, and January 1. Happy holidays!
The Schenectady Historical Museum will be closed in January to accommodate maintenance work and exhibition installation. We will reopen in February.
Join us for a short, illuminated walk in the woods of the Woestyne. Afterwards, we’ll make a fire in the Inn’s historic fireplace
Anna Mazurkiewicz, historian and deputy dean at University of Gdańsk, Poland, will discuss her recent book “A Man in the Room Where It Happened: The Cold War Odyssey of William J. Tonesk.”
Create a colorful, textured, embroidery garden!
Visit our Cabinet of Curiosities, where a costumed storyteller will regale you with the tales of precious artifacts, and of the distant past from which they came.
Johan Varekamp, professor at Wesleyan University, will discuss “The Life and Times of Adriaen Block: Dutch Explorer, Mapmaker, and Fur Trader.”