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NY's largest living history museum. Explore a sprawling 19th-century Historic Village🐂, Nature Center and trails🍁, and the John L. Wehle Gallery🖼️. Thank you!
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10/30/2026

Our hands-on workshops are a window into the 19th century! Learn a new skill, meet fellow history enthusiasts, and take home something you’ve made by hand.

November workshops include:

🥧 Sweet & Savory Pasties Pies - Master the art of pie and dough-making and create delectable pasties (like our celebrated hand-pies!) on a charming 19th-century woodstove. You’ll bring home a selection of your own small pies, along with a beautifully crafted pie plate made by the Museum’s own talented potters.

🏛️ Archival Mount Making - Learn how to create a safe, archival-quality mount to support and protect an object in your own collection. Bring an object you are interested in conserving and make one textile hanger, shoe mount, or hat mount to take home. After the workshop, join Gallery Curator Cassidy Percoco for a tour of the historical costume vault.

🧵 Embroidery - Get started with the basic stitches and go home with a partially completed project, a hoop, needle, and a selection of embroidery threads.

🍪 Springerle - Learn how to stamp, bake, and paint these traditional German cookies and go home with your own beautifully handcrafted Springerle mold and collection of cookies.

Reserve your spot in a workshop today at https://gcv.pulse.ly/xifjcokq6z

10/29/2026

Would you prefer it if acquaintances and strangers could tell immediately that you were grieving a loved one?

Death and mourning are a part of every life, and all cultures have created rituals (including Halloween!) to allow people to process loss and to signal it to others. Clothing has long played a role in these traditions.

By the 18th century, western European cultures had established a codified system of morning, with expectations for how long people mourned and what they wore at different stages, depending on their relationship to the person who had died.

The clothing and artifacts pictured here, on display in the John L. Whele Gallery, give a sense of what these mourning rituals looked like in Western New York in the 19th century.

📷 Mourning bonnet, ca. 1850
📷 Collection of late 19th-century brooches, and mourning ring ca. 1787
📷 Ambrotype of woman in full mourning dress, ca. 1860
📷 Boy's mourning dress, ca. 1837 and day mourning dress, ca. 1867

10/28/2026

You are cordially invited to a brunch date with history 🥂

🧵 Behind the “Seams” Brunch, Sunday, November 15
Take a look inside one of the finest collections of historic clothing and textiles in the country with Gallery Curator Cassidy Percoco. Enjoy a guided visit to the private vaults, rarely accessible to the public, and hear the stories behind these remarkable pieces.

🎉 50th Anniversary Brunch, Sunday, November 22
Celebrate our 50th Anniversary season with a special brunch alongside Museum President & CEO Becky Wehle. Hear firsthand stories from the Museum’s history, then enjoy a personal tour of the exhibit "An Extraordinary Attraction: 50 Years of History, Art, and Nature" in the John L. Wehle Gallery.

Make your reservations for these unforgettable experiences!

🧵Behind the "Seams" Brunch:
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🎉50th Anniversary Brunch:
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10/27/2026

🎄 Some holiday traditions are just too special not to bring back. 🎄

In our 50th Anniversary season, we invite you to make some new memories and revisit old favorites as we bring back some of our most beloved events!

✨Yuletide in the Country tours and dinners
🫖 Holiday Afternoon Teas
🎅 Breakfast with St. Nick, and (new this year!) Brunch with St. Nick

Whether it's been years since your last visit, or you're continuing a family tradition, we hope to share some of that holiday magic again this year.

🎁 Tickets are available now, and these events do sell quickly, so check the schedule and make your plans for an historic holiday season.
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10/26/2026

Embark on an evening of 19th-century entertainment and contemporary cuisine in the Livingston-Backus House.

Built in 1827 as one of the first grand mansions in Rochester's Third Ward, this remarkable home showcases stately Greek Revival architecture and quietly elegant interiors. You'll sit down to a four-course meal in the enchanting upper rooms of the house, enjoying the very best of the fall harvest.

🍎 Livingston-Backus Dinner, Saturday & Sunday, November 7 & 8. Make your reservations on our website at https://gcv.pulse.ly/l0c5bjz8z0

10/25/2026

It was so wonderful to have Tonia Loran-Galban (Mohawk, Bear Clan) with us at the Museum for a series of special programs this season, demonstrating traditional Haudenosaunee basket making, including replicating a basket from our own collection.

Thank you to the Rochester Area Community Foundation for their support of this program!

10/24/2026

Each generation makes their own field trip lore 😭💛

The Museum is in peak fall field trip season, and we love to see it. Too all the teachers, parents, chaperones, educators, and staff who visit each season, we hope you've unlocked some core memories!

10/23/2026

Stitch this in your calendar! Join us on Sunday, November 15 for Behind the "Seams" Brunch and Tour. This private access event pairs food & drinks in spaces typically roped off to the public. We will open the vault to our historic costume collection, one of the finest around. Admission to the Museum is included! 🧵🍹
Learn more and purchase tickets by visiting https://gcv.pulse.ly/4tu27wduub

10/22/2026

📣 We want to hear from you about workshops! Complete our survey and share your thoughts.

You do not need to have participated in a workshop to complete the survey. We welcome everyone's input and perspective as we plan our 2027 workshop calendar.

📝 Take the survey here: https://cloud.pulse.ly/zvnr8g7e3y

Address

1410 Flint Hill Rd
Mumford, NY
14511

Telephone

+15855386822

Website

http://www.gcv.org/

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