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Museums In The Cooperstown Area

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	National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum (498 Feet Away) (888) 425-5633 Visit one of the nation's most popular museums!
	Farmer's Museum (1 Mile) (607) 547-1450 Take a step back in time to the days of a Colonial American Town. Witness the Leatherstocking Base Ball Club play the game at its roots on Sundays. "Just across from the Fenimore Museum is the Farmer's Museum, 29 buildings that function as a working replica of a farm and country village from the era when James Fenimore Cooper was living on his farm. Museum-employed farmers produce maple sugar, honey, hay, grains, vegetables, hops and wood. There are pigs in stalls and three kinds of free-range chickens. In other buildings, artisans weave cloth, practice blacksmithing and make products like hand-dipped beeswax candles and hand-made soap that visitors can buy. The packets for the museum's heirloom seeds were printed on a treadle press, and a larger press produced more than 1,200 books for the general store last year. In the main barn, an exhibition focuses on a bit of Americana that turns out not to be exclusively American - ice cream. Outside, a carousel revolves with wooden farm animals as mounts." - John Motyka, New York Times
	NYSHA/Fenimore House Art Museum (1 Mile) (888) 547-1450 The Museum is home to one of the finest collections of American folk art, North American Indian Art, and James Fenimore Cooper memorabilia, as well as extraordinary examples from the Hudson River School. "In the Museum's Cooper Room, a portrait by Gilbert Stuart shows Judge [William] Cooper holding a rolled-up street plan of Cooperstown, and two letters to him from George Washington are on display. The so-called Memento Screen commemorates the next generation with two letters to James Fenimore Cooper from the Marquis de Lafayette, one of the luminaries who helped celebrate the wide European readership of Cooper's books. [...] Downstairs is the Thaw Collection of American Indian Art, including effigy combs decorated with animal figures made of bone, wood and antler, and a carved wooden bowl used in Iroquois feasts. Across the hall is another kind of carving: carousel horses with flame-like manes made by Jewish artisans who immigrated to Brooklyn and other cities from Eastern and Central Europe from the 1880s to the 1920s. At the museum shop, pick up a copy of "Rural Hours," a book by Susan Fenimore Cooper, daughter of James Fenimore, that has gained belated recognition as a natural history classic and earned a place for her as America's first great woman nature writer." - John Motyka, New York Times
	American Baseball Experience/Hero's of Baseball Wax Museum (¼ Block) (607) 547-1273
	Hyde Hall (9 Miles) Today Hyde Hall is a house museum and regional cultural center offering visitors the unique opportunity to tour a true restoration in progress. (607) 547-5098 George Clarke started Hyde Hall in 1817. He purchased the site, on a hillside terrace at the foot of Mount Wellington, for its commanding view down Otsego Lake (James Fenimore Cooper's Glimmerglass). He selected upstate New York's ablest architect, Philip Hooker of Albany, to draw up his designs. Hooker's credits include the facade of Hamilton College chapel, Albany Academy, Albany City Hall, and the original New York State Capitol building. Hooker himself was an Albany politician of long standing, a member of the "Albany Regency."
	The Petrified Creatures Museum of Natural History (10 Miles) (315) 858-2868
	Leatherstocking Railway Historical Society (10 Miles) (607) 432-2429 Take a scenic and historic rail ride along the Susquehanna River, or visit our railway museum in Milford.
	National Soccer Hall of Fame (22 Miles) (607) 432-3351
	Northeast Classic Car Museum (60 Miles) (607) 334-2886 Exhibiting over 100 fully-restored antique cars.

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