Saratoga Museums

These Saratoga Museums are fine NY museums you can visit while you are on vacation in Saratoga Springs, New York.

Children's Museum at Saratoga When a child visits this Saratoga museum they can learn more "about Science, History, Community living and the arts". 69 Caroline Street, Saratoga Springs, NY. Children's Museum at Saratoga

National Bottle Museum Their mission is to preserve the history of bottle making. The Bottle Museum's exhibits show a variety of beautiful and color glass bottles. One wall of this Saratoga museum's first floor is covered with approximately 2000 bottles of many colors, shapes and forms.

The latest museum program is the development of a "Museum Glasswork." A building closeby has torches and hand tools for teaching lampworking, a process of working with glass rods and tubing to create smaller glass pieces.

76 Milton Avenue, Balston Spa, New York. National Bottle Museum

National Museum of Dance & Hall of Fame Open Tuesday through Sunday. Learn more about those who who have been honored for their contributions to dance including Fred Astaire, George Balanchine, Martha Graham, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Igor Stravinsky and more. Saratoga Spa State Park at 99 South Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY. National Museum of Dance & Hall of Fame

National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame- Saratoga Springs, New York . Admission to the National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame is a winning ticket. Interactive programs, the Horse Play! Children’s Gallery, rare memorabilia, a fine equine art collection, a behind-the-scenes tour of Saratoga’s “Oklahoma” training track, and more tell the colorful story of three centuries of Thoroughbred racing . This Saratoga Museum's hours are Monday -Saturday 10am-4pm. Sunday 12:00 pm - 4 pm. National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame

Petrified Sea Gardens Petrified Sea Gardens is a beautiful park containing almost an acre of exposed stromatolite fossils, once part of an ocean-reef 500 million-years-ago. The park has about a mile of trails, featured are a Native American Medicine Wheel, a labyrinth, "Standing stones," unusual rock formations left by the glaciers and a picnic area beneath the 300 year old "Iroquois Pine" tree.

42 Petrified Sea Gardens Road, Saratoga Springs, NY. Petrified Sea Gardens

New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center 61 Lake Avenue, Saratoga Springs, NY. New York State Military Museum and Veterans Research Center

Saratoga Automobile Museum 110 Avenue of the Pines, Saratoga Springs, NY. Saratoga Auto Museum

The battlefield of 1777 where American History made an important turn. Saratoga National Park

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery This NY Museum is at Skidmore College, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga Springs, NY. The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery

Brookside Museum: Home of the Saratoga County Historic Society, 6 Charlton Street, Balston Spa, NY.

The Saratoga Springs History Museum: The Canfield Casino in Congress Park, Check out beautiful Congress Park. See the Italian Gardens and see "Spit and Spat" dual. Ride one of the 28 horses of the restored carousel. See the beautiful 1914 "Spirit of Life" statue designed by Daniel Chester French. The setting was designed by Henry Bacon who was the sculptor of the Lincoln Monument in Washington, D.C. There's also, a Civil War Monument in honor of the men from Saratoga Springs who volunteered. Saratoga Springs, NY. The Saratoga Springs Museum: The Canfield Casino in Congress Park

Waterford Historical Museum & Cultural Center, 2 Museum Lane, Town of Waterford, NY. 518-238-0809.

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