*This Museum IS NOT Participating in Museum Day 2011*
3755 Tonawanda Creek Rd.
Amherst, NY 14228
716-689-1440
Amherst Museum Website »
Step back in time as you experience 19th Century life on the Niagara Frontier. The Museum’s beautiful 35-acre site includes twelve restored and authentically furnished 19th Century homes, churches, one-room schoolhouses, a barbershop and a working blacksmith shop. Indoors are exhibits on local history, textiles, and decorative arts.
From Forest to Front Lawn: The Story of Amherst, an American Suburb
The Museum’s new long term exhibit exploring the development of Amherst from the earliest settlement to the present. Like many Western New York communities, the search for opportunity determined Amherst’s growth. Visitors will discover how Amherst evolved into the diverse and vibrant community it is today, from the earliest surveying of the land to its expansion as a suburb after World War II and the location of the SUNY at Buffalo campus in the 1960s.
Participation in Museum Day is open to any tax-exempt or governmental museum or cultural venue on a voluntary basis. Smithsonian magazine encourages museum visitation, but is not responsible for and does not endorse the content of the participating museums and cultural venues, and does not subsidize museums that participate.
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