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The Strong National Museum of Play (also known as just The Strong Museum or simply the Strong) is part of The Strong in Rochester, New York, United States.Established in 1969 and initially based on the personal collection of Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum opened to the public in 1982, after several years of planning, cataloguing, and exhibition development for the museum ...
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The museum was established in 1912 as the Rochester Municipal Museum. Its first curator, Edward D. Putnam, served from 1913 until 1924, when New York archaeologist Arthur C. Parker took over as museum director. Parker began to expand the museum's holdings and research in anthropology, geology, biology, natural history, and the history and ...
Museums in Rochester — in Monroe County, New York. Pages in category "Museums in Rochester, New York" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.
Rochester, City Of, New York: Built On This Site, 1827 By Brighton Districts 4 And 14 Named Rochester Collegiate Institute, 1839. Dr. Chester Dewey Was Principal 1836-51. 31: PIONEER SCHOOL On Fitzhugh St. Rochester, City Of, New York: First Schoolhouse In Rochester Was Built Of Wood On This Site, 1813. It Was Replaced By A Two-story Stone ...
This list of museums in New York is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The George Eastman Museum, also referred to as George Eastman House and the International Museum of Photography and Film, [3] [4] [5] is the world's oldest museum dedicated to photography [6] [7] and one of the world's oldest film archives, opened to the public in 1949 in Rochester, New York.
Strasenburgh Planetarium viewed from the Rochester Museum and Science Center In 1959, the Rochester Museum Association Planning Committee announced a master plan for expansion of the museum. An architectural design by Robert Napier, then a student at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY, included a detached planetarium building at the corner of ...