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Farmers' Museum
	State Hwy 80 Lake Rd Cooperstown, NY 13326 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner Show Video
Price Category: $$-$$$ Season: Seasonal: Apr-Mid May, Late Oct, Tue-Sat 10am-4pm; Late May-Mid Oct, daily 10am-5pm. America's history comes alive-daily chores are carried out at the working farm while commerce flourishes at the Village Crossroad. Visitors experience the interplay among trades, village life and agriculture in New York State circa 1845. The museum, one of the oldest living history museums, features exhibits, craft demonstrations and hand-on activities that bring history to life.
Fenimore Art Museum
	State Hwy 80 Lake Rd Cooperstown, NY 13326 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner Show Video
Price Category: $$-$$$ Season: Seasonal: Apr-May, Oct-Dec, Tue-Sun 10am-4pm; Jun-Sep, daily 10am-5pm. Closed Thanksgiving, Dec 25. One of the nation's premier art institutions; home to an exceptionally rich collection of American folk art and American Indian art, as well as important holdings in American decorative arts, photography, and 20th century art. Formal gardens overlook Otsego Lake. Visitors can get a glimpse of American Indian lives at the circa 1750 Bark House on the shores of the lake
Fly Creek Cider Mill & Orchard
	288 Goose St Fly Creek, NY 13337 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner Show Video
Price Category: Free Season: Seasonal: May-Dec, daily 9am-6pm. 1856 water-powered cider mill and farm winery, offering tours, samples and a gift shop with a gourmet food store. Restaurant and bakery on premises. Conveniently located three miles from Cooperstown. Groups and motorcoaches welcome for tours and dining!
Glimmerglass Opera
	7300 State Hwy 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner Show Video
Price Category: $$$$ Season: Jul-Aug, Thu-Sat evenings, 8pm; Matinees, Sun-Tue 2pm, Sat 1:30pm. This internationally-acclaimed summer opera festival presents both familiar and rarely performed operas in a magnificent setting overlooking Otsego Lake. Previews, meet-the-performers, tours, picnic meals on spacious lawns add to a "Night at the Opera."
Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum
	99 Main St Cooperstown, NY 13326 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $ Season: Mar-Dec. The Heroes of Baseball Wax Museum features over 30 wax figures in historic settings, a virtual reality batting cage and a "Baseball Bloopers Theatre" - something for the entire family!
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
	25 Main St Cooperstown, NY 13326 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner Show Video
Price Category: $$-$$$ Season: YR: Mem Day-Labor Day 9am-9pm; Sep-May, 9am-5pm. The newly-renovated museum brings baseball's glorious history to life through interactive exhibits and emotional stories. The museum features the hallowed Hall of Fame Gallery, honoring the game's greatest players, as well as countless exhibits and statistical information for fans of all ages.
National Soccer Hall of Fame and Museum
	18 Stadium Cir Oneonta, NY 13820 Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $$ Season: YR, 10am - 5pm, Mem Day-Labor Day, 9am - 7pm. The Soccer Hall of Fame offers interactive games and exhibits on the history of the sport - American Soccer! Shop at our Kick Zone Store and play on our award winning fields! The Soccer Hall of Fame is the only museum dedicated to this sport.

2007-2008 Orpheus Theatre Season!
Ravine Pkwy Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Orpheus Theatre celebrates 24 years of artistic excellence! Offering three different presentations annually, as well as special events and workshops!
Catskill Choral Society
PO Box 135 Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Spring & Fall Concerts This chorus of more than 80 men and women dedicated to choral singing presents regular fall and spring concerts. Formed in 1970, the chorus is a very popular musical organization.
Catskill Conservatory
PO Box 295 Oneonta, NY 13820	Add to Trip Planner
Season: Several concerts throughout the year Catskill hills have echoed for more than two decades with sounds of classical and contemporary music, thanks to the Catskill Conservatory. The organization, founded 30 years ago by Carleton Clay, its music director and president, and Charles Schneider, conductor, has provided hundreds of concerts, music lessons and work for scores of musicians.
Catskill Symphony Orchestra
Hunt Union Ballroom Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
This professional regional orchestra presents five major concerts, including guest performers and a cabaret concert.
Cherry Valley Museum
49 Main St Rte 166 Cherry Valley, NY 13320	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $ Season: Memorial Day-Oct 15, daily 10am-5pm. Closed Jul 4. Federal style house (ca. 1815) with exhibits from 1778 massacre to late 20th-c. Collection of 1830's memorabilia, antique fire engines and a diorama of the infamous Cherry Valley Massacre. Period clothing collections. Kitchen exhibit and other period rooms.
Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival
Route 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $$ Classical chamber music is performed during the summer at various historic venues in the Cooperstown area.
Cooperstown Concert Series
PO Box 624 Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Sept-May This series presents a diverse schedule ranging from early music, folk, Cajun, classical and modern musical performances.
David Sayre Store & House Museum
7 North Main St St Hwy 28 Milford, NY 13807	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $ Season: Mem Day-Sep, 10-4-Thu-Sun Explore the 19th century at the David Sayre Store and House Museum. The museum brings history to life with a guided tour of an elaborate collection of local period artifacts. For a unique experience, visit the museum and general store on Wednesday evenings to see the Sayre homestead by candlelight.
Fokine Ballet Company
140 Main St Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Fokine Ballet Company, a not-for-profit company, enhances the area's cultural climate with quality ballet performances and furthers dance appreciation within the community. Student dancers have the opportunity to dance with professional dancers from the New York metropolitan area and from Poland and Russia as well.
Foothills Performing Arts Center
24 Market St Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR This is a developing state-of-the-art performing arts and cultural center. Foothills provides Central New York with top flight performing arts groups, modern educational and conference facilities and a home for many of the area's existing arts groups.
Foreman Gallery
Anderson Center for the Arts Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR: Mon-Fri: Noon-9pm Anderson Center for the Arts has one major exhibition space, the Foreman Gallery. It is a large, interesting and well maintained space. During the academic year it is devoted solely to the exhibition of student, faculty, and contemporary artwork. The Foreman Gallery is a valued exhibition and teaching space forthe department as well as a focal point of the building.
Greater Oneonta Historical Society
183 Main St Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: Free Season: Jun-Aug: Sat: 10am-4pm As one of the largest historical groups in Central New York, the Society works to preserve the heritage of the Greater Oneonta area. The Society's holdings of more than 5,000 items consist of farm equipment, clothing, photographs, postcards, portraits, ephemera, and other historical regalia which pertain to the Upper Susquehanna region.
Guided Tours of Cooperstown
Paul Kuhn 51 Chestnut St Cooperstown, NY 13326	Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $$$$ Season: YR Discover the people, events and circumstances that led to the founding of this fascinating frontier village in the early years of the New American Republic. See beautiful architecture, historic structures and landmarks. Offers step-on guide service for motorcoach tours and guided walking tours for individuals and groups of the Village of Cooperstown and the Glimmerglass Historic District.
Hartwick College Summer Music Festival and Institute
Anderson Center for the Arts Hartwick College Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Jun-Aug Founded in 1947, the Institute has been a unique and inspiring setting for thousands of young musicians. Concerts are offered to the community by these fine musicians.
Hyde Hall Covered Bridge
Hyde Hall 1 Mill Rd Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
America's oldest existing covered bridge sits quietly on the grounds of the old Hyde Hall estate north of Cooperstown, NY. Research shows it was built in 1825, edging out competitors for the oldest-age claim in several other states. A day long grand celebration to publicize national significance of the Hyde Hall Covered Bridge, including a tour of the mansion, a display and slide show on New York's Covered Bridges.
Hyde Hall State Historic Site
1 Mill Rd Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $$ Season: May-Oct, daily(closed Wed, except in Jul and Aug). An 1800s neoclassic country mansion with a commanding view of Otsego Lake, is a stunning reminder of by-gone days. Located eight miles north of Cooperstown, this 50-room mansion is a National Historic Landmark, a New York State Historic Site and is on the National Historic Register.
Leatherstocking Brush and Palette Club Gallery
Pioneer Alley Cooperstown, NY 13326	Add to Trip Planner
Season: Call for hours. Exhibits by local artist. Labor Day craft shows.
Leatherstocking Theatre Company
Route 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Jul-Aug, eves, matinees. Call for information. Presenting professional productions of contemporary American theater during the summer.
Major's Inn
Marion Ave Gilbertsville, NY 13776	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Mar-Dec The Inn was built in the early 20th Century. The entire village of Gilbertsville, located in the scenic Butternut Valley of Central New York, is on the National Register of Historic Places, but the jewel in the crown of this community is the Major's Inn. It's architectural beauty is obviously significant, and its' magnificent Tudor like style stands as a symbol of the community spirit and skilled craftsmanship. Open from early spring until the end of the year, with weekly summer concerts, a quilt show in the fall and culminating with the Christmas Holiday Bazaar. The Inn is available for private use, hosting weddings, birthday and anniversary parties, meetings, festivals and special events.
Murdock & Murdock Gallery
117 E Main St Milford, NY 13807	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR, 9am-5pm. Artwork from accomplished artists ranging from the old masters to contemporaries. American and European paintings, bronze, marble and Tiffany lamps are also sold through the gallery.
New York State Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
Gilbert Lake State Park 18 CCC Road Laurens, NY 13796	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Memorial Day-Labor Day, 11am-7pm or when beach is open for swimming. Located in Gilbert Lake State Park. Features over 3,000 pictures, tools and memorabilia related to the CCC era.
New York State Historical Association
Lake Rd/Rte 80 Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR The New York State Historical Association was founded in 1899 by a group of New Yorkers who were interested in promoting greater knowledge of the early history of the state. In 1939 Stephen Carlton Clark offered the Association a new home in the village of Cooperstown. Clark took an active interest in expanding the holdings and in 1944 turned over Fenimore House, one of his family's properties, to be used as a new headquarters and museum.
Old Middlefield Schoolhouse Museum
3698 County Hwy 35 Middlefield Cooperstown, NY 13326	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: DA Season: Jul & Aug: Sun noon-4pm, and special events From its beginnings as an informal historical society in 1959, the Middlefield Historical Association has developed a local history museum and community center, a program series ranging from craft demonstrations to community festivals, and a growing collection of artifacts, printed materials, and photographs relating to the history of the Town of Middlefield.
Oneonta Concert Association
SUCO Ravine Prkway Oneonta, NY 13820	Add to Trip Planner
Season: Sep-May, call for information The concert association sponsors reasonably-priced professional concerts and dance performances during the academic year.
Orpheus Theatre
Goodrich Theatre SUNY @ Oneonta Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: $$$ Season: Call for schedule. Orpheus Theatre offers several professional musical performances during the year.
Otego Historical Society
6 River St Otego, NY 13825	Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: Free Season: YR: Wed: 1-4 and June-Aug: Sat: 10am-2pm People are welcome to view interesting artifacts, maps, exhibits and do geneological research. The Otego Historical Society has a fairly complete cemetery file and an incomplete (but growing!) file on past and present Otego residents. Our collection includes photos, postcards, local school memorabilia, microfilm of "The Rural Times", a locally published newspaper (1906-1930's) and many other items of interest.
Otsego Dance Society
The Presbyterian Church 25 Church Street Cooperstown, NY 13326	Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR, except Jul & Aug: 1st Friday: 8-11pm The Otsego Dance Society holds contradances the first Friday of the month except July and August. All levels are welcome!
Plaide Palette of Celtic Art
45 Main St Cherry Valley, NY 13320	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Importers of fine Irish, Scottish, and Welsh gifts. Celtic Musical instruments from bodhran drums to bagpipes. Custom cast wedding cake toppers from medieval to celtic to animals. Custom tartan painted Santas, angels, banks, etc.
Rosa Mystica House of Prayer
Angel Hill Rd Edmeston, NY 13335	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: YR All are welcome at the Rosa Mystica House of prayer. This shrine offers days of prayer, observance of tridium, retreats of different natures, hosts renowned Catholic speakers, and rest and relaxation for the mind, body and soul.
Science Discovery Center of Oneonta
SUNY College at Oneonta Ravine Pkwy (Physical Science Bldg) Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Season: Jul-Aug, Mon-Sat noon-4pm; Sep-Jun, Thu-Sat noon-4pm. Closed Jul 4, Thanksgiving, Dec 25, Good Fri. This hands-on science museum offers more than 80 varied science exhibits to explore and do-yourself.
Swart-Wilcox House Museum
Wilcox Ave Oneonta, NY 13820	Add to Trip Planner
Season: Jul-Aug: Sun: 1pm-3pm, May 15-Nov 15: by appt only Oneonta's oldest structure was built in 1807 by Lawrence Swart, a Revolutionary War Veteran from Schoharie County. Recently renovated, the house was awarded an historic preservation award by the NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. It is used as an education center for local schools and those interested in its historical significance.
Upper Catskill Community Council of the Arts
The Wilber Mansion 11 Ford Ave Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: Free-$$ Season: Council: YR, Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Call for other program hours. Community art center featuring art education, special events, film series and services to artists, non-profits and public.
Upper Susquehanna Contradance
7 N Main St / St Hwy 28 Milford, NY 13807	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Upper Susquehanna Contradance holds dances on the fourth Saturday of each month. Everyone is welcome at our dances; you don't need any dancing experience, nor do you have to bring your own partner. Just dress comfortably and wear clean soft-soled shoes to protect the floor. Each dance features live music and a caller who teaches the dance figures and steps before the music starts.
Yager Museum of Art and Culture
Hartwick College One Hartwick Dr Oneonta, NY 13820	Visit Website Add to Trip Planner
Price Category: Free Season: YR, Tue-Sun noon-4:30; Closed in Jun. Jul-Aug, Wed-Sun noon-4:30pm. The Yager Museum is Oneonta's only museum of arts and culture. The museum provides lifelong learning for all ages. The museum features the permanent exhibition of Willard Yager's collection of Upper Susquehanna artifacts along with exhibits of fine art, archaeology, ethnography and history in seven changing galleries.

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