The following are some examples of Women’s History Month Events taking place at museums and historical societies across New York State. Check back often for updates.
Hands-on History: Elizabeth Cisco!
Saturday, March 1, 2025
1:00pm
Rufus King Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/01/handson-history-elizabeth-cisco
Women's History Month: Historic Female Monuments in Parks
Saturday, March 1, 2025
1:00pm
Prospect Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/01/womens-history-month-historic-female-monuments-in-parks
In-person Talk: The Cave Electrician’s Widow: The Tragedy at Howe Caverns & Dramatic Courtroom Fight for Justice
Saturday, March 1, 2025
2:00pm
Schenectady County Historical Society
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/cudmore/
Shaping History: The Women of Niagara Falls
Saturday, March 1, 2025
10:00am
Niagara Falls State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=46-42514.0
Keeping Space: A Women’s History Wikipedia Edit-A-Thon 2025
Saturday, March 1, 2025
10:00am
Buffalo History Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://buffalohistory.org/event/keeping-space-a-womens-history-wikipedia-edit-a-thon-2025/
Courtroom, Classroom, and Culture: Women’s Lives as Battlegrounds
Sunday, March 2, 2025
2:00pm
New-York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/courtroom-classroom-and-culture-womens-lives-as-battlegrounds?date=2025-03-02
Curator’s Gallery Tour: Real Clothes, Real Lives
Monday, March 3, 2025
11:00am
New York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/curators-gallery-tour-real-clothes-real-lives?date=2025-03-03
Always be a Lady: The Pioneering Career of Dr. Elizabeth Gillette
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
12:00pm
Schenectady County Historical Society
In-Person Event
More information: https://schenectadyhistorical.org/event/gillette/
Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13887889
Women in Science Now: Stories and Strategies for Achieving Equity
Thursday, March 6, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13887889
Virtual Presentation: Real Clothes, Real Lives
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:30pm
New York Historical
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/virtual-presentation-real-clothes-real-lives?date=2025-03-07
Womens History Month: Women in Space!
Friday, March 7, 2025
5:45pm
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42368.0
Meet the Curator: Picture Stories: Photographs by Arlene Gottfried
Friday, March 7, 2025
12:00pm
New York Historical
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nyhistory.org/programs/meet-the-curator-picture-stories-photographs-by-arlene-gottfried?date=2025-03-07
Women in Science Spotlight: Elizabeth Knight Britton
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:00pm
Staten Island Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.statenislandmuseum.org/event/women-in-science-spotlight-elizabeth-knight-britton/
Promiscuous Assemblies: Oneida County's Women of the Underground Railroad and Abolition
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:00pm
Oneida County History Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://oneidacountyhistory.org/promiscuous-assemblies
Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in el Mundo – Saratoga Opera Event for Children
Saturday, March 8, 2025
2:00pm
Saratoga County History Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-the-bravest-nina-in-el-mundo-saratoga-opera-event-for-children/
Women’s History Month Hike
Saturday, March 8, 2025
10:00am
Shirley Chisholm State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=200-42732.0
Frida Kahlo and the Bravest Niña in El Mundo - Presented by Opera Saratoga
Saturday, March 8, 2025
11:00am
Albany Institute of History and Art
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.albanyinstitute.org/event/frida-kahlo-and-the-bravest-nina-in-el-mundo
Women's History Month: Anne Hutchinson
Sunday, March 9, 2025
1:00pm
Pelham and Split Rock Golf Course
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/09/womens-history-month-anne-hutchinson
Womens History Month: Women in Science!
Sunday, March 9, 2025
10:00am
Nissequogue River State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=110-42372.0
Breaking Glass Ceilings: Clara Stanton Jones and the Detroit Public Library
Wednesday, March 12, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13218511
Water Cures and Their Role in the Temperance, Women's Rights, and Abolition Movements
Friday, March 14, 2025
1:00pm
University of Rochester Medical Center Miner Library
In-Person and Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://minercal.urmc.rochester.edu/calendar/events/water-cure
The Handbook of Black Librarianship – Trailblazing Women
Friday, March 14, 2025
2:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/14105903
Crafty Kids Story Hour! Luck be a Lady: Women’s History Month and St. Patrick’s Day
Saturday, March 15, 2025
1:00pm
Clermont State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=16-42655.0
Women's History Month: Historic Women of Central Park
Saturday, March 15, 2025
1:00pm
Central Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/15/womens-history-month-historic-women-of-central-park
Womens History Month: Art of Mary Blaire
Saturday, March 15, 2025
10:00am
Connetquot River State Park Preserve
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=8-42370.0
B.I.G. featuring Women Entrepreneurs
Saturday, March 15, 2025
11:00am
Buffalo History Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://buffalohistory.org/event/b-i-g-featuring-women-entrepreneurs/
Women's History Month: Cass Gallagher
Sunday, March 16, 2025
11:00am
Van Cortlandt Nature Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/16/womens-history-month-cass-gallagher
Special Screening: Discovering New York Suffrage Stories
Tuesday, March 18, 2025
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/robert-snyder-when-the-city-stopped
Black History Women History Event
Thursday, March 20, 2025
6:00pm
Sorrentino Recreation Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/20/black-history-women-history-event
Emma Goldman
Thursday, March 20, 2025
11:00am
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13735578
Brainfood : Women in New York: Stories from the Collections
Friday, March 21, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/special-screening-discovering-new-york-suffrage-stories
Women of Science at the New York State Museum
Saturday, March 22, 2025
10:00am
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/brainfood-women-new-york-stories-collections
Women's History Month: Women in Conservation
Sunday, March 23, 2025
1:00pm
Von Briesen Park
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/23/womens-history-month-women-in-conservation
The Mushroom Letters: A Dramatic Reading of Mary Banning & Charles Peck's Correspondence with NorthEast Theater Ensemble
Sunday, March 23, 2025
2:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/mushroom-letters-dramatic-reading-mary-banning-charles-pecks-correspondence-northeast
Alice as Artist
Sunday, March 23, 2025
2:00pm
Clermont State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=16-42657.0
Celebrate Women’s History Month With The General’s Lady at Washington’s Headquarters
Sunday, March 23, 2025
2:00pm
Washington's Headquarters State Historic Site
In-Person Event
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=17-42610.0
Crafting the Narrative: Media in the Suffrage Movement
Sunday, March 23, 2025
3:00pm
National Susan B. Anthony Museum
In-Person Event
Registation Required
More information: https://susanb.org/event/crafting-the-narrative-media-in-the-suffrage-movement/
Women of World War II: On the Front Lines & Home Front
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
3:00pm
Niagara History Center
In-Person Event
More information: https://niagarahistory.org/event/women-of-world-war-ii-on-the-front-lines-home-front/
State Paleontologist Winifred Goldring and Making Fossils Come to Life
Tuesday, March 25, 2025
12:30pm
New York Archives Partnership Trust
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nysarchivestrust.org/events/speaker-series/2024-2025
Her Space, Her Time: How Trailblazing Women Scientists Decoded the Hidden Universe
Wednesday, March 26, 2025
2:00pm
New York State Library
Virtual Event
Registration Required
More information: https://nyslibrary.libcal.com/event/13949315
She-Merchants, Sachems, and Slaves: Women in Colonial New York
Thursday, March 27, 2025
6:00pm
Philipse Manor Hall State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=37-42678.0
Outcasts: Mary Banning's World of Mushrooms - A Guided Gallery Tour with Dr. Patricia Kaishian
Friday, March 28, 2025
12:00pm
New York State Museum
In-Person Event
More information: https://www.nysm.nysed.gov/programs/outcasts-mary-banning%E2%80%99s-world-mushrooms-%E2%80%93-guided-gallery-tour-dr-patricia-kaishian
Marine Park Alliance Presents Women's History Month: Who's Inspired You?
Saturday, March 29, 2025
1:00pm
Carmine Carro Community Center
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/29/marine-park-alliance-presents-womens-history-month-whos-inspired-you
Tea and Transit: Women, Tea, and Driving
Saturday, March 29, 2025
1:00pm
King Manor Museum
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2025/03/29/tea-and-transit
Trail Talk: Women’s History
Saturday, March 29, 2025
10:00am
Hempstead Lake State Park
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=31-42147.0
Tea & Talk Series: The Life & Photography of Alice Austen
Sunday, March 30, 2025
1:00pm
Staatsburgh State Historic Site
In-Person Event
Registration Required
More information: https://parks.ny.gov/events/event.aspx?e=25-42672.0
