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Learn more about a friendship that reshaped the course of American history. Secretary of State Seward was generally considered “President Lincoln’s right hand,” a trusted advisor and confidant among the administration’s famed the “team of rivals." Discover more about the complicated the nature of their relationship on this special tour.

Admission is $15 for adults, $10 for museum members. Reservations suggested.

The scale of death wrought by the Civil War changed the ways Americans grieved for their lost loved ones. The Victorian generation posed for photographs with the dead and kept memento mori, physical mementos from the bodies of the deceased. They also developed a culture of funereal rites that strike the modern observer as dark and morbid. 

The scale of death wrought by the Civil War changed the ways Americans grieved for their lost loved ones. The Victorian generation posed for photographs with the dead and kept memento mori, physical mementos from the bodies of the deceased. They also developed a culture of funereal rites that strike the modern observer as dark and morbid. 

This event will take place at the Carriage House Theater, located behind the Cayuga Musuem on 203 Genesee St, Auburn, NY 13021

 Back by popular demand! Embrace the changing of the seasons in the crisp air of an outdoor walking tour led by museum staff from the Seward House and the Cayuga Museum. The foliage and the history will both be on full display as guides take you on a winding stroll that features Auburn’s historic South Street residential district and Fort Hill Cemetery.   Learn about the architecture and history behind many of the city’s most iconic homes, buildings, and properties.

Historian Amanda Bosworth is a PhD student in history at Cornell University, who spent much of the sesquicentennial year of Seward’s Folly (2017) researching in Alaska and Russia. Travelling throughout Russia and the former Russian America, she experienced firsthand the disparate ways the legacy of Seward’s Alaska purchase is understood in each place. Bosworth will trace this fraught history and discuss the way it was remembered on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. 

Join us for the First Friday Community Event, where visitors will be welcomed into the Museum to view the Dining and Drawing Rooms, with docents on hand to answer questions and interpret the spaces. Complimentary refreshments will be provided.

Pitch in with museum staff and volunteers in preparing the grounds for autumn!

Due to a large pre-scheduled group, our 3 pm tour will be cancelled.

Due to a private event, the 4:00 PM tour will be cancelled for this day.  We apologize for any inconvenience.  

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