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 Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for Children 12 and under, space is limited and reservations are required. 

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 Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for Children 12 and under, space is limited and reservations are required. 

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 Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Tickets are $15 for Adults and $10 for Children 12 and under, space is limited and reservations are required. 

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Due to the passing of a beloved Seward House Museum volunteer the Museum will be closing at 12 o'clock on Friday September 2nd, with the last tour of the day running at 11am. We will reopen on Saturday September 3rd for our normal opertaing hours. 

This specialty tour, written by summer intern Amanda Marro-Pendergrass, is in celebration in honor of Harriet Tubman’s 200th birthday and will focus on the lives of Harriet Tubman, the Sewards, and their connection to the institution of slavery as well as each other. The tour seeks go beyond the Civil War and abolition and touch on aspects of Harriet Tubman’s life, activism, and how the world around her changed yet remained the same. This event is free but pre registration is recommended. The 10:30 tour is officially sold out, but spaces are still available at 2pm. 

By popular demand, historian Robert May makes his fourth return to Auburn for a fascinating new lecture on Seward’s efforts to fight slavery. Drawing on his book, Slavery, Race, and Conquest in the Tropics, May will discuss how Seward fought not only against the growth of the slave power in the U.S., but also southern visions of creating a vast slaveholding empire abroad. Tickets are $15 for the general public and $10 for Museum Members.

 

Explore the lives of the ladies of the Seward family with Kate Grindstaff. Drawing on their personal diaries and letters, this tour offers insight into the politics of gender relations, the women’s rights movement, and the social customs of the Antebellum and Civil War periods. Pre-register through our website for $15/person.

Due to the passing of a beloved Seward House Museum volunteer, our First Friday reception has been canceled for the month of September.

Explore the global travels of William Seward in the beautiful surroundings of the Seward House Museum Gardens, featuring international food tastings by Salt City Market, live entertainment, including belly dancing and music by the Lunch Ladies.

 

Tickets: $75 - Click Here to Purchase

Tickets will be limited to 200 people.

 

 

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Gold Level: Alesco Advisors

 The Harriet Tubman National Historical Park and SHM welcome documentarian Metra Lundy to Auburn, where she filmed part of her powerful A Walk In Her Shoes in 2019. Inspired by Harriet Tubman’s journeys on the Underground Railroad, Lundy recreated one, often on foot, traveling from Maryland to Canada. Her feature was the winner of the 2021 Socially Relevant Film Festival. Lundy will lead a discussion with the audience after this free public screening.

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