Welcome to the Yorktown Museum, where history comes alive! Visit a recreated 18th century home and an early Mohegan Indian settlement. Discover the Old Put Railroad and see how local farms operated. Find unique gifts, enjoy fascinating and detailed miniatures, conduct research – all in our convenient location in Yorktown Heights.

The Museum houses a research center with valuable resources for genealogical research, a Gift Shop with a collection of gift items and reproductions for the home, garden and entertaining. In addition to five permanent exhibit rooms, several changing exhibits are presented in the main hall during the year.

The Museum's collections provide valuable information and artifacts for area school children studying local history, genealogical researchers, scout troops working toward community service and merit badges, train buffs, miniature enthusiasts and visitors who just want to know "the way it was."

Visit the Museum. You'll be enchanted by traditional toys and dolls and puzzled by strange patent models. You'll marvel at patchwork quilts and the tiny waists of long-ago dresses and undergarments exhibited during the changing exhibits.

– "Preserving the Past. . .   Enriching the Future."          

Join The Friends of the Yorktown Museum today!  The Friends of the Yorktown Museum (FYM) invite you to join in supporting the museum through membership and in its fundraising, programming and assistance to the Yorktown Museum staff.  All financial contributions made through this group will provide funds, sponsor programs, improve and expand materians, support publications, continue to provide assistance to teachers, students and interns as we work on countless other projects.  Be a part of Yorktown's history and JOIN NOW!

Volunteer at the Museum!
The Yorktown Museum is especially enjoyable when rediscovered on a renewed visit! This is our Town Museum and each of us can make it better with a small contribution of time. We need help in sharing our local history with youth groups and adults. If you have some time to spare, please join our Docent Staff. Positions include guiding tours, helping in the Gift Shop, conserving and displaying the Museum's artifacts and helping in the Research Room (organizing collections of books, maps, photographs, etc.). Training will be provided to make your experience both enjoyable and meaningful. Help us in preserving the past...and enriching the future... If you have any suggestions or ideas for programs for the Museum, please call the Museum office at (914) 962-2970 to speak with a staff member.

In the Gift Shop . . .

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Yorktown Museum, Yorktown Community & Cultural Center - Top Floor, 1974 Commerce Street, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Phone: (914) 962-2970, Fax: (914) 962-4379, Email: museum@yorktownny.org