Walking Through Time: Exploring Earth’s Oldest Fossil Forest in Cairo, NY
August 23, 2025
9 am
- Off-Site
Join Dr. Chuck Ver Straeten, Curator of Sedimentary Rocks at the New York State Museum, for a rare, off-site guided exploration of the Cairo Fossil Forest—site of the world’s oldest known forest, right here in New York State! This one-of-a-kind fi...
Special Screening: Bringing Caribbean Sounds to the North Country
September 2, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Exploring the Ice Ages: A Guided Tour with Dr. Andrew Kozlowski
September 5, 2025
12 pm
- Crossroads Gallery
Remembering Together: A Family Gallery Tour of World Trade Center: Rescue, Recovery, Response
September 6, 2025
11:00 am
- World Trade Center Gallery
Special Screening: Floating Ideas: How the Erie Canal Helped Shape America
September 9, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Outcasts: Mary Banning’s World of Mushrooms—A Guided Gallery Tour with Dr. Patricia Kaishian
September 12, 2025
- South Lobby
Tour of the New York State Museum Entomology Collection
September 14, 2025
1 pm, Pre-Registration Required
- Museum Lobby
Bronte Roman: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage with Live Latin Music
September 21, 2025
1-3 pm
- Huxley Theater
From Field to Frame: A Gallery Tour with Dr. Jeremy Kirchman Featuring the Art of Louis Agassiz Fuertes
September 26, 2025
12 pm
- Bird Hall
Fungi in the Barrens: A Mushroom Walk with the New York State Museum at Albany Pine Bush
September 28, 2025
11 am
- Off-Site
Special Screening: Equal Protection: The Supreme Court’s Battle with Affirmative Action
September 30, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Surveying History: David Vaughan and the 19th-Century Erie Canal
October 2, 2025
12 pm
- Huxley Theater
Join historian Craig Williams for an illustrated lecture exploring the extraordinary work of 19th-century canal cartographer David Vaughan. An Irish immigrant who arrived in Albany in the late 1840s, Vaughan brought with him the skills New York St...
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
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