Mid-Autumn Festival: Celebrating Family, Friends, and the Harvest
October 5, 2025
11 am
- New York Metropolis Hall
Calico Rebellion: The Anti-Rent War and the Second American Revolution
October 5, 2025
2 pm
- Huxley Theater
MLB & NYC: A Love Story: An evening with Major League Baseball Historian, John Thorn
October 6, 2025
5 pm Reception | 6 pm Program
- Huxley Theater
This on-site program will be held at the Huxley Theatre in the New York State Museum on the first floor of the Cultural Education Center, 222 Madison Avenue, Albany, NY 12230.Our in-person seats are fully booked, but you don’t have to miss out! A ...
History & Hops: The Corditaipe Site Revisited: An Ice Age Encampment of First Peoples in Eastern New York
October 23, 2025
6-7 pm
- Off-Site
Discovered in 1975, the Corditaipe archaeological site is an Ice Age encampment located in the upper Mohawk Valley, the homelands of the Oneida Nation. Since 2019, NYSM archaeologists and volunteers have been re-investigating the Corditaipe site t...
Musical Postcards from Irish Albany & Troy: Erie Canal Bicentennial Concert
October 26, 2025
1 pm
- Adirondack Hall
Walking Through Time: Exploring Earth’s Oldest Fossil Forest in Cairo, NY
November 1, 2025
11 am
- Off-Site
Stefan Bielinski Memorial Lecture: Taking Manhattan - Russell Shorto on the Epic Origins of New York
November 2, 2025
2 pm
- Huxley Theater
Join acclaimed historian and bestselling author Russell Shorto for a compelling lecture on his new book, Taking Manhattan: The Extraordinary Events That Created New York and Shaped America. In this thrilling and deeply researched narrative, S...
How to Read Rocks: Unlocking the Secrets of Sedimentary Layers
November 7, 2025
12 pm
- Discovery Place
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