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Exhibitions

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  • Gunboat at Ground Zero Title Graphic with an artistic rendering of a wooden boat over a red and blue background and superimposed 18th century map

    The Gunboat at Ground Zero: A Revolutionary War Mystery

    Through January 31, 2026
    • South Hall
  • Outcasts title graphic with an image of Mary Banning surrounded by mushrooms painted in watercolors

    Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms 

    Through January 04, 2026
    • South Hall
  • Power of Homestead Graphic with etching of small, wooden house

    The Power of Homestead

    Through June 29, 2025
    • Museum Lobby
  • Margery Ryerson exhibit graphic featuring select works

    Margery Ryerson: Art is Contagious

    Through September 07, 2025
    • West Gallery
  • Holocaust to Haven

    Holocaust to Haven

    Through December 31, 2027
    • New York Metropolis Hall
  • Berenice Abbott - Changing New York

    Berenice Abbott: Changing New York

    Through December 31, 2025
    • New York Metropolis Hall
  • Thomas Hart Benton

    Thomas Hart Benton

    Through December 31, 2025
    • Adirondack Hall
  • Henry DiSpirito, Refugees (Mother and Child), c. 1953

    Henry DiSpirito: Stonemason to Sculptor

    Through December 31, 2025
    • New York Metropolis Hall
  • Fort Orange

    “a small fort, which our people call Fort Orange”

    Through December 31, 2025
    • Adirondack Hall

Also on View

  • Adirondack Hall

    Adirondack Wilderness

    Adirondack Hall
  • Stoneware

    Art for the People: Decorated Stoneware from the Weitsman Collection

    New York Metropolis Hall
  • Beneath the City

    Beneath the City: An Archaeological Perspective of Albany

    West Corridor
  • Birds of New York Gallery View

    Birds of New York

    Bird Hall
  • Black Harlem Exhibit

    Black Capital: Harlem in the 1920s

    New York Metropolis Hall
  • Mastodon exhibition in museum

    Cohoes Mastodon

    South Lobby
  • New York State Map Interactive

    Explore New York: Map Interactive

    West Corridor
  • old fire engine

    Fire Engine Hall

    World Trade Center Gallery
  • Longhouse

    First Peoples

    South Hall
  • Ice Ages

    Ice Ages: How Ice Shaped the Land and the Life in New York

    Crossroads Gallery
  • mineral

    Minerals of New York

    Adirondack Hall
  • New York Metropolis Hall

    New York Metropolis Hall

    New York Metropolis Hall
  • Earthquake imagery

    New York State Museum Earthquake Center

    Discovery Place
  • Photo of St. Paul's Chapel in NYC

    St. Paul's Chapel: A Place of Refuge

    World Trade Center Gallery
  • Museum Carousel

    The New York State Museum Carousel

    4th Floor Terrace
  • World Trade Center building facade

    The World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response

    World Trade Center Gallery
  • Tuck High Storefront

    Tuck High Co. Chinatown Store

    New York Metropolis Hall
  • Kristen Artz Commuter Photograph

    World Trade Center Center Commuters - The Kristen Artz Collection

    World Trade Center Gallery

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