Home at Last!

On September 2, 2009 we signed an agreement with the City of Geneva to locate the Museum within a Visitors’ Center planned for construction on municipally owned property on the west shore of Seneca Lake. The Geneva Chamber of Commerce and the public boat launch are presently located on this 11.4 acre site. The City plans to replace the present Chamber building with a new Visitors’ Center comprising approximately 21,500 SF of space on the first floor. The Museum will initially occupy approximately 15,000 SF of this space, along with an additional 3,000 SF of space on the 2^nd floor.   

This beautiful lakefront site is located on US Rte 5 & 20, within six miles of the NYS Thruway, and contains sufficient acreage and frontage to support future expansion of Museum facilities. We envision the eventual need for additional building space in the form of a combination boat house/skiff livery on the waterfront, construction of an off-site storage facility designed to permit viewing of some large Collection artifacts not currently on display in the main building, and future expansion of the main building.

The timing of this project will be determined by the availability of a NYS grant which Geneva indicates will be made available to fund construction of the Visitors’ Center.