Learn how the invention of glass revolutionized the world, explore a historic Fort overlooking the Great Lake, and relive the days of the Erie Canal at the Erie Canal Museum. Whether your interest is technology, commerce, politics, military, lighthouses or shipwrecks, New York State's historic attractions and museums will lead you down the Path through History !
Watch colorful reenactments at Fort Ontario in Oswego >
Many important cultural achievements and strategic military engagements occurred here over the past three hundred years, and the historic Cities & Towns in Upstate New York are filled with some of our Nation's finest treasures.
Featured Cultural Heritage Attractions
The Strong Museum
Finger Lakes
The Strong is a highly interactive museum and home to the world's largest collection of historical play materials.
Antique Boat Museum
Thousand Islands - Seaway
The museum’s galleries overflow with more than 300 unique and beautifully-preserved boats and thousands of recreational boating artifacts.
Corning Museum of Glass
Finger Lakes
See a live demonstration of glass blowing a the Corning Museum of Glass and explore more than 3,500 years of glass history in its Art Collection Gallery.
Erie Canal Museum
Finger Lakes
The hands-on interactive Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse is the world’s leading interpreters of Erie Canal history...
Fort Ontario
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Oswego's Fort Ontario is the only fort in the United States that has served in all military conflicts beginning with the French and Indian War of 1754-63.
H Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Open year round, Lake Ontario's Maritime Museum in Oswego also features several historic ships that are open seasonally for boarding, and a shuttle boat for lighthouse tours.
Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (The MOST)
Finger Lakes
Syracuse's MOST is an exciting, hands-on science museum and planetarium and home to the only domed IMAX in Upstate New York.
Corning Museum''s Glass Barge
Finger Lakes
The Corning Museum of Glass' innovative GlassBarge is a floating museum & mobile glass-making hot shop that will tour the Erie Canal in 2018.
The Strong Museum
Finger Lakes
The Strong is a highly interactive museum and home to the world's largest collection of historical play materials.
Antique Boat Museum
Thousand Islands - Seaway
The museum’s galleries overflow with more than 300 unique and beautifully-preserved boats and thousands of recreational boating artifacts.
Corning Museum of Glass
Finger Lakes
See a live demonstration of glass blowing a the Corning Museum of Glass and explore more than 3,500 years of glass history in its Art Collection Gallery.
Erie Canal Museum
Finger Lakes
The hands-on interactive Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse is the world’s leading interpreters of Erie Canal history...
Fort Ontario
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Oswego's Fort Ontario is the only fort in the United States that has served in all military conflicts beginning with the French and Indian War of 1754-63.
H Lee White Maritime Museum at Oswego
Thousand Islands - Seaway
Open year round, Lake Ontario's Maritime Museum in Oswego also features several historic ships that are open seasonally for boarding, and a shuttle boat for lighthouse tours.
Milton J. Rubenstein Museum of Science and Technology (The MOST)
Finger Lakes
Syracuse's MOST is an exciting, hands-on science museum and planetarium and home to the only domed IMAX in Upstate New York.
Corning Museum''s Glass Barge
Finger Lakes
The Corning Museum of Glass' innovative GlassBarge is a floating museum & mobile glass-making hot shop that will tour the Erie Canal in 2018.
