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Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

Experience a full Victorian Christmas with all the trimmings and trappings. Costumed guides lead candlelit tours of the home, which is decorated in holiday splendor, as visitors learn about Christmas traditions of the Sewards through heart-warming holiday memories shared from their letters and diaries. Admission: $15 Adults, $10 Children (12 & under). Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/749495078957?aff=oddtdtcreator

See the Seward House Museum decked out for the holidays! Museum staff and volunteers spread cheer by regaling visitors with stories of Seward family Christmases during this community open house. This event is free and open to the public.

Discover the Sewards at play in this interactive program as SHM intern Maria LaFleur shares her research into the Seward's favorite pastimes and invites the audience to play along. Special objects from the Museum collections will be discussed and displayed. Admission for this event is $10 for SHM Members, $15 Non-Members. Reservations required, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/748768896927?aff=oddtdtcreator

SHM Director of Education Jeff Ludwig explores how Abraham Lincoln and William Seward established Thanksgiving as a national holiday in hopes of uniting the country amid the Civil War. This event will take place at the Equal Rights Heritage Center and is free and open to the public.

With war, rampant disease, and high infant mortality rates, death was not an unusual visitor to the average 1800s household. In this specialty tour, learn about the bygone customs and symbols of death used by Victorian-era Americans, including the Seward Family. Admission is $10 for SHM Members, $15 for Non-Members. Reservations recommended, purchase tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/733530588737?aff=oddtdtcreator

UPDATE: This event has been cancelled.

This lunchtime lecture aims to introduce interpretive connections between the Miller and Seward family to the Haudenosaunee. Dan Hill, a member of the Heron Clan of the Cayuga (Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ) Nation and caretaker of the Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ SHARE farm, will be offering an introduction to Haudenosaunee culture, values, and basic history. He will also be sharing the mission of and his work with the SHARE farm, which supports Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ sovereignty and rematriation.

Join us Friday, November 3rd for our First Friday Event. We will be hosting an exhibit by Terry Cuddy's BOCES class in our gift shop. Complimentary refreshments will be provided and rooms in the Museum will be open for interpretation. This event is free and open to the public.

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