Museums & Historic Sites - Visit Schoharie County

1743 Palatine House Museum

1743 Palatine House is the oldest building in Schoharie County. It was the home of the Reverend Peter Sommers, his wife and 12 children, and was also a place of worship early on. Today it is a...

Anonymous Arts Museum

The Anonymous Arts Museum & Museum of the History of Charlotteville are on two different floors in the former 1855ca Levi Stevens General Store and both are located at 610 Charlotte Valley Road....

Blenheim Covered Bridge

The Old Blenheim Covered Bridge was opened in 1855 to serve the residents of Schoharie County as a convenient way to move farm equipment and produce from one side of the roaring Schoharie Creek to...

Blenheim-Gilboa Power Project NYSPA Visitor Center and Lansing Manor

The visitor experience at Blenheim-Gilboa is a triple play: The science of electricity and hydropower is on exhibit at the Visitors Center. Right beside it, history is preserved at Lansing...

Cave House Museum of Mining & Geology

Restored historic 1865 Hotel is now an interactive museum on the past, present, and future of geologic resources. The exquisite study of Earth Sciences and the beauty of the history of the...

Charlotteville Church

The Charlotteville Church is located in the 1832 former Methodist Church and has the original interiors, photographs and displays of the history of the Church and the Charlotteville Seminaries....

Dr. Best House & Medical Museum

As if awaiting the return of Dr. Best from a house call on his horse-drawn carriage, this Victorian home and medical office captures the elegance of the turn of the century. Serving a small-town...

Esperance Historical Society and Museum

The Village of Esperance, New York is located on Historic US Route 20 and is home to the Esperance Commons granted to the village by William North in 1820. The Commons now includes the 1878...

Gilboa Historical Society

Home of the Oldest fossil trees in the world! Gilboa was the largest town in Schoharie County in the late 1800's and was sacrificed for New York City's water supply. Museum open Saturday, Sunday,...

Gilboa Museum & Juried History Center

The Gilboa Museum has rare Devonian Fossils on permanent display. The Juried History Center offers a view into how life was lived in the late 19th and early 20th century in upstate New York. By...

Iroquois Museum

The Iroquois Indian Museum building is a work of art designed in the shape and spirit of the longhouses that once graced the valleys of upstate NY. Archaeology exhibits focus on the ancestors of...

Jefferson Maple Museum Farmers Market

Great vendors and organic produce available as well as local crafts and live music!