From Field to Frame: A Gallery Tour with Dr. Jeremy Kirchman Featuring the Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes
September 26, 2025
12 pm
- Bird Hall
Join Dr. Jeremy Kirchman, Curator of Birds and Mammals at the New York State Museum, for a guided tour through the Birds of New York gallery celebrating the intersection of science and art. In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, this special program...
Fungi in the Barrens: A Mushroom Walk with the New York State Museum at Albany Pine Bush
September 28, 2025
11 am
- Off-Site
Special Screening: Equal Protection: The Supreme Court’s Battle with Affirmative Action
September 30, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Surveying History: David Vaughan and the 19th-Century Erie Canal
October 2, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Join historian Craig Williams for an illustrated lecture exploring the extraordinary work of 19th-century canal cartographer David Vaughan. An Irish immigrant who arrived in Albany in the late 1840s, Vaughan brought with him the skills New York St...
Mid-Autumn Festival: Celebrating Family, Friends, and the Harvest
October 5, 2025
11 am
- New York Metropolis Hall
Calico Rebellion: The Anti-Rent War and the Second American Revolution
October 5, 2025
2 pm
- Huxley Theater
MLB & NYC: A Love Story: An evening with Major League Baseball Historian, John Thorn
October 6, 2025
5 pm Reception | 6 pm Program
- Huxley Theater
Baseball and New York City (NYC) have shared a love affair like no other—full of big players, big deals, big heartbreaks, and big comebacks!Throughout the evening, John Thorn, the official historian of Major League Baseball (MLB), will bring this ...
History & Hops: The Corditaipe Site Revisited: An Ice Age Encampment of First Peoples in Eastern New York
October 23, 2025
6-7 pm
- Off-Site
Discovered in 1975, the Corditaipe archaeological site is an Ice Age encampment located in the upper Mohawk Valley, the homelands of the Oneida Nation. Since 2019, NYSM archaeologists and volunteers have been re-investigating the Corditaipe site t...
Musical Postcards from Irish Albany & Troy: Erie Canal Bicentennial Concert
October 26, 2025
1 pm
- Adirondack Hall
How to Read Rocks: Unlocking the Secrets of Sedimentary Layers
October 31, 2025
12 pm
- Discovery Place
Walking Through Time: Exploring Earth’s Oldest Fossil Forest in Cairo, NY
November 1, 2025
11 am
- Off-Site
Stefan Bielinski Memorial Lecture: Taking Manhattan - Russell Shorto on the Epic Origins of New York
November 2, 2025
2 pm
- Huxley Theater
Join acclaimed historian and bestselling author Russell Shorto for a compelling lecture on his new book, Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. In this thrilling and deeply researched narrative, S...
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