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An opportunity for Brownie and Junior level Girl Scouts to experience hands-on-history and earn badge requirements. This immersive Fanny Seward-centered program teaches girls about 19th-century America through several fun, participatory activities. Staff from the SHM and Seymour Library will draw on events and memories from Fanny's life to inspire Scouts about how girls can change the world! Each participant will receive a unique Seward House Museum patch. This event is free and reservations are required due to limited spaces available. 

Join us Friday, August 4th for our First Friday Event. We will be hosting an exhibit by Patrick Hanay-Zaia in our gift shop and the musical stylings of Colleen Kattau in our gardens. Complimentary refreshments will be provided and rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation.  This event is free and open to the public. 

The product of a collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historical Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. It is an especially perfect summer experience for 8-10 year olds. Registration is $100 and reservations are required as space is limited. 

Bring your lunch and attend a lecture at the Equal Rights Heritage Center as the SHM continues this popular series.  Bruce Levitt will discuss his perspective on rehabilitation measures within our prison system and how the Phoenix Players fit into his vision of reform inside the Auburn Correctional Facility. Afterwards, be sure to experience the new SHM exhibit, “Rooted In Reform.” This event is free and open to the public. 

Join us Friday, July 7th for our First Friday Event. We will be hosting an exhibit by Fran Norsworthy in our gift shop and surf medleys and classic TV show themes performed by Bob Keefe and the Surf Renegades in our gardens. Complimentary refreshments will be provided and rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation.

Bring your lunch and enjoy a lecture at the Equal Rights Heritage Center as the SHM continues this popular series. Reflecting on Auburn’s citywide commemoration of Juneteenth, Dr. Shellie Clark shares her archival research into Frances Seward’s career as an “invisible conductor” on the Underground Railroad. Clark, who recently completed her PhD in History with a dissertation on Frances Seward, will also discuss her legacy within the abolitionist movement. This event is free and open to the public. 

Bring your folding chairs and love of live theater to the SHM gardens for an open-air performance not to be missed. Set against the backdrop of the Museum’s historic gardens and South Porch, actors from Syracuse Shakespeare-in-the-Park perform Merchant of Venice. This performance is free and open to the public but donations are suggested.

Join us Friday, June 2nd for the first of our Summer First Friday events. We will be hosting a group show from Erica Manners and Arthur Hutchinson in our gift shop and complimentary refreshments will be provided. Along with the show in the gift shop we will also have the 'Network to Freedom' and 'Rooted in Reform' exhibits open for interpretation.

Due to an Evening with Angela Davis, the Seward House Museum will be closed to help prepare for the event. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

The Seward House Museum is pleased to announce that iconic activist, feminist, and acclaimed author Angela Davis will keynote a community-wide commemoration of Juneteenth on Thursday, June 15th.

Davis is Professor Emerita of History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz; she is also a living witness to the historical struggles of our contemporary era.

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