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A collaboration between the SHM, Harriet Tubman National Historic Park, Cayuga Museum of History and Art, and Seymour Library, this weeklong camp shares all that “History’s Hometown” has to offer. This experience is best suited for campers 8-10 years old. Registration is $100 and scholarships are available. Registration is required.

These tours aren’t just for Halloween! Taking a different route and sharing different stories than the Haunted History series, tour guides bring the more macabre tales from Auburn’s past to life. Is “History’s Hometown” haunted? Join us on these evening outdoor walking tours to find out! To purchase tickets, please call the Museum at (315) 252-1283 or click the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1435113877239?aff=oddtdtcreator

These tours aren’t just for Halloween! Taking a different route and sharing different stories than the Haunted History series, tour guides bring the more macabre tales from Auburn’s past to life. Is “History’s Hometown” haunted? Join us on these evening outdoor walking tours to find out! To purchase tickets, please call the Seward House Museum at (315) 252-1283 or click the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1435113877239?aff=oddtdtcreator

Bring your lunch and enjoy this Lunchtime Lecture at the newly rehabilitated SHM Barn! For this installment, intern Alyssa Brown shares her senior capstone, “The Problem with Olive,” which examines the complicated life of Olive Risley Seward, both in terms of her relationship to her adoptive Seward family and her own remarkable career as an independent woman of letters. This event is free and open to the public.

The SHM will offer free admission on June 19th for Juneteenth. Reservations are recommended for tours on Juneteenth due to limited availability. Tours run at the top of every hour; the first tour begins at 10:00 AM and the final tour begins at 4:00 PM. To make reservations, call the Museum at (315) 252-1283 or click the following link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1371349456139?aff=oddtdtcreator

Join Director of Operations Mitch Maniccia as he reflects on the recently completed Barn and Carriage House Rehabilitation Project. From tribulations to triumphs, Mitch will recap the full story about what it took to get the job done.

This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is FREE and open to the public.

Celebrate William Seward’s 224th birthday at this special community event. The SHM invites everyone to join us for the ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completion of the Barn and Carriage House Rehabilitation Project. More details coming soon!

While the history of the United States is marked by chapters of polarization, few political moments have ever proved as divisive as the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854. In the words of historian David Brown, it was “the most lethal piece of legislation ever to clear Congress” and it spurred radical thoughts of disunion, a “mini-civil war.” Brown places William Seward at the center of this story in this discussion of his new book, "A Hell of a Storm."

The Lunchtime Lecture Series continues with LeMoyne College Professor of History Doug Egerton. Before he was rivals with Abraham Lincoln, in the 1850s Senator William Seward found himself challenged by an abolitionist upstart from New England named Thomas Wentworth Higginson. Egerton will bring the stories of their friction to life in this discussion of his new biography of Higginson, "A Man on Fire."

This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is FREE and open to the public.

Over the last decade, renowned historian Robert May, author of "Manifest Destiny's Underworld" and other fascinating books about U.S. territorial expansion, has delivered nearly half a dozen popular programs for SHM audiences. Now he returns to knit them together into a specialty tour of the house, connecting objects and artifacts to insights from his scholarship. You’ll never look at the Museum’s collections the same way again!

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