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The 4 o'clock tour is no longer available due to pre scheduled programming. We apologize for any inconvenience. 

Take your lunch break in New York City’s Seward Park! Seward Park Librarian Andrew Fairweather leads a virtual tour of one of the world's most storied neighborhoods-- and one that, not coincidentally, was named after William Henry Seward. Andrew will lead us through Seward Park itself (the first municipal park in U.S. history) and its surrounding neighborhood.

Come join representatives from the Seward House Museum and the Ford's Theatre National Historic Site live on Facebook as they discuss the coordinated attack led by John Wilkes Booth and a band of conspirators, which would result in a night of bloodshed throughout the Capitol. From the assassinations of President Lincoln in the Presidential Suite of Ford's Theatre, to the attack on the bedridden Secretary of State William H. Seward in his Washington, D.C house that would leave five people wounded, learn both about the night of April 14th and the tragic legacy left in its wake.

Celebrate Women's History Month with this virtual tour as SHM staff provide an intimate portrait into the lives of the ladies of several generations of the Seward family. Drawing on their personal diaries and letters, and featuring a peek into the SHM's newest exhibit, "The Vote," the tour will connect the Sewards with the company they kept in the women’s rights and anti-slavery movements of the 19th century.

The virtual tour will premier on the SHM's FB page at 11am on Friday, March 19th. 

Join Seward House Museum staff on a virtual tour of the "Forged in Freedom" exhibit and the original kitchen of the house, which was used as a stop on the Underground Railroad during the mid-19th century. Also, see a sneak peak of some of the Seward's belongings that highlight their abolitionist leanings. 

The video will premier on the SHM's FB page at 12:00 pm, March 11th, and is part of the continued "Harriet Tubman Week" Programming.

The Museum is now open to the public, and resumes running the regular scheduled tours! Please see the schedule below for more information on when the Museum will be open:

  • Tuesday – Saturday 10 am – 5 pm | Tours running daily at 10, 12, 2, and 4. Pre-registration strongly encouraged, guided tours are the only way to see the house.
  • Closed Sundays, Mondays, and major holidays.
  • Guided tours start at 10, 12, 2 and 4. The last tour of the day begins at 4 pm.

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Change is inevitable in the movement of time but in 1867 Secretary of State William H. Seward would send another ripple racing north to sweep over the Unangax peoples and the other residents of Russia-America. How did this deal in the dark made thousands of miles away, weave into the tapestry of a society already in the midst of the massive change, sparked by the arrival of Russia in the 1730's? 

Celebrate the arrival of the holiday season with an enchanting candlelight tour of the elegant Seward House Museum as we present Twelve Nights of Christmas. Costumed guides will lead tours of the home which will be decorated in nineteenth-century splendor much as the Seward family would have known.  Visitors will learn about Christmas traditions of the Seward's, including heart-warming holiday memories gleaned from their letters and diaries.

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