Empire State Plaza, Madison Avenue
Albany, NY , 12230

Phone: 518-474-5877

Website

The New York State Museum is attached to the south side of the Empire State Plaza, facing onto the plaza and towards the New York State Capitol. The museum houses art, artifacts (prehistoric and historic), and ecofacts that reflect New York’s cultural, natural, and geological development. It is the nation's oldest and largest state museum. Formerly located in the State Education Building, the museum now occupies the first four floors of the Cultural Education Center, a ten-story, 1,500,000-square-foot building that also houses the New York State Archives and New York State Library.

The Museum is Closed Sundays.

Designs were:
1) 'I (Heart) Albany',
2) Fossil bug,
3) Carousel horse,
4) Mastodon,

Retired 1: 1) Mastodon, 2) Eurypterid, 3) Carousel horse, 4) Arrow Head.

5/27/2022 Woman at the front desk said the remaining machine is gone