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Museum Exhibits

The Fairport Museum is divided into three areas of interest. The south wing showcases domestic and family life including costumes and accessories, the north wing focuses on our early history with displays on early settlers, farming, canal development and area industry. Located in the west end is a general store with history publications and gift items for sale

Social, Domestic & Family Life--South Wing

People in the Fairport and Perinton area have donated all of the items in this wing to the museum. The artifacts show 19th and early 20th century American life and the domestic arts including sewing, food preparation, cooking, canning, cleaning, and leisure.

There are also school items and pictures of the Fairport Schools, the Georgiene Bolton hatpin collection and George Lawrence pharmaceutical collection

Farming, Canal Development & Industry--North Wing

Displayed here are Native American objects found in Perinton, the Erie and Barge Canal development, businesses and products made in Fairport and inventors and inventions from the area. Early patrons and founders of businesses, which helped Fairport prosper, are represented. You will find displays on the DeLand family, Robert Douglas, Dr. Kohler and many others.

Deland & Co's Baking Powder Trade Cards-Photo by Keith Boas Photography

More contemporary local history items include pictures of buildings razed for urban renewal, festivals such as Old Home Week 1908, the Perinton Sesquicentennial 1962 and Fairport Centennial 1967.

This wing also contains the Helen Butler/Elma Gaffney Memorial Library of local history books and manuscripts

Early Store & Gift Shop—West Wing

There is an early general store in this wing with a working manual cash register.

 

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Social & Domestic Life Wing

Farming, Canal Development & Industry

Early Store & Gift Shop

Museum Hours of Operation:

The Museum is free and open to the public on Tuesday and Sunday 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. and Thursday evenings from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. During July and August extended hours are offered. See the website calendar under "Events" for details. We are closed in January and February and holiday weekends.

Volunteer docents are available to answer general questions and to pull files for researchers during normal hours of operation.

Tours of the museum are self-guided but special tours can be arranged by appointment. The charge is $3 a person for guided tours of 20 to 30 minutes.

If you would like to do in depth research the Museum Director and Curator is at the Museum the first two Mondays of every month from 8 a.m. to noon and at other times by appointment.

Tuesday 2-4 P.M

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