All Exhibits

Pioneer life in Buffalo Creek Village is interpreted anew with fresh signage, a full-wall mural depicting rural life, as well as the beloved and iconic blacksmith’s shop and weaver’s cottage. New elements include hands-on activities in the recreated Post Office Read more...

Experience some of Buffalo’s 19th century shops and businesses, including Buffalo Savings Bank., Adam, Meldrum & Company, and Millard Fillmore’s carriage. Generous funding from The Junior League of Buffalo supported the Street of Shops. Website See all Buffalo History Museum exhibits and Read more...

The Train Gallery The impressive train display includes 1900s replica model trains running on more than 200 feet of track, as well as a scale Erie Canal lock, and 100 miniature buildings portraying 19th century Buffalo and Western New York. Read more...

The Buffalo News and M&T Bank present Icons: The Makers and Moments of Buffalo Sports.  Icons explores our rich sports history and investigate the unique connection between fans and our beloved teams and sports idols. Icons will be located in newly refurbished gallery Read more...

Bug Works is about the kind of bugs that creep, crawl and fly and their place and purpose in our ecosystem.  Join Sparky and Ocho O’Rider, Bug Works’ Lightning Bug Foreman and his tarantula helper, as they guide you through Read more...

The John R. Oishei Native American Gallery This permanent installation traces the region’s history through its first inhabitants, while focusing on the formation and evolution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy. Highlights of the exhibit include a walk-in longhouse, a dazzling gustoweh Read more...

Explore Together! Since its 2009 reopening, our interactive Explorations gallery has inspired thousands of wee explorers and toddlers to explore the basics of science every week. It’s exciting and colorful setting will draw your little scientist right in! Designed for early childhood development and science Read more...

Explore the basics of physics, mechanical motion, engineering and organic motion through a highly interactive studio space. Corporate support for In Motion is provided by Calspan Corporation, Columbus McKinnon Corporation and West Herr Toyota. Additional studio support for In Motion was provided by The Read more...

Explore our Earth’s systems, from extreme weather to geological phenomena and the alternative forms of energy our planet provides, and take an in-depth look at our geology collection of gems, minerals and weather-measuring instruments used by generations past. Plus, see Read more...

The Buffalo Museum of Science’s newest and perhaps most anticipated science studio will be unveiled this August! Buffalo In Space is the eighth and final exhibit that completes the five-year transformation of all of the Museum’s permanent galleries. Physically immense and distant, Read more...

From the Industrial Revolution (1820-1870) to the end of World War II (1945), the 19th and 20thcenturies were transformative years for America.  Expansion of empire, urban growth, technological innovation and the protection of natural resources were particular concerns facing America.  Visual Read more...

CONSTRUCT, the hands-on experience presented by Turner Construction Company, serves as an imagination playground for all ages, where guests are invited to imagine, design, engineer and construct using fasteners, found objects and cardboard. Read more...

The Kellogg Observatory has been a part of the Museum’s history for almost 90 years. Named for Jane and Spencer Kellogg, the Kellogg Observatory opened to the public in 1930 and was equipped with an 8-inch f/15 refractor designed by Read more...

UNSEEN is a multimedia art installation that examines the mutilation of our environment and in turn ourselves. This installation is deeply personal for me. At only 41 years old, my brother Joe was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer Read more...

In recognition of the magnitude of change generated by women legally being granted the right to vote one hundred years ago, this special exhibition demonstrated the strength of women artists to express their critiques of today’s world. It is part Read more...