Yorktown Museum

10/16/2026

We had so much fun!

09/25/2026

Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity! This is not your average art class. Sign up today!

09/18/2026

The Yorktown Museum is proud to partner with Yorktown Parks and Recreation to bring an Abrakadoodle class to our community. This is a great opportunity for kids to learn about famous artists featured in today’s museums and how they use STEAM concepts in their work. Classes starting soon, so sign up today!

09/15/2026

Calling all train enthusiasts! We have a few spots open for our ever popular, Model Train Making Workshop. Don't miss it, these only happen a few times per year!
Learn to wire & paint a model train car to take home.
Monday, September 21, 11:00 am - 12:00pm. Top floor of the YCCC building
For ages 12 and up, as wire snips and cutting tools will be used.
Cost: $5 CASH only $ Must register at - [email protected]

09/10/2026

Hey Yorktown! Kids can learn new skills while having fun at our Model Train Making Workshop. Wire and paint a box car to take home. Monday, September 21st 11:00 - 12:00. $5 cash, ages 12 and up as sharp tools will be used. Must register at [email protected]

09/09/2026

In remembrance of this tragic day and all the lives affected, the museum will exhibit information about how Yorktown was touched by this heartbreaking event.

09/03/2026

Thank you, for the shout out!!!!

https://www.facebook.com/TheNineOneFour/

Okay this one got me. Yorktown has a museum on the top floor of a town building, it is completely free, and it turned 60 this month.

It opened in August 1966 with 115 objects that 15 people in town simply handed over. Chairs, tables, books, flags, maps. By that December, 39 donors had pushed it to 352. Today the collection is past 10,000. Nobody built this with a big endowment. Yorktown just kept giving it stuff for sixty years straight.

My favorite part is that the rooms point at real places you can still go stand in front of. There is an entire room rebuilding the Yorktown Depot around 1950, and the actual 1877 depot is still there in Railroad Park on the same street, restored in 2020. The museum's first two rooms were inside the Davenport House, a 1750 farmhouse on Croton Heights Road that served as a Continental Army command post.

There is also a dollhouse with 8,000 hand cut clapboards, which is a sentence I genuinely did not expect to type today.

Free, Monday to Friday, nine to four, 1974 Commerce Street, top floor of the Capellini Center.

Now tell me the small Westchester museum nobody talks about that you would drive to on a random Tuesday. I will go. (link in comments)

08/26/2026

Such a treat to have kids engaged in this wonderful hobby of model train making. And our resident expert Nick is so patient and fun, the experience is rewarding for everyone.

08/25/2026

Dollhouse Kits! All this week at the museum. For $10 cash, you get the easy to assemble kit with choice of furnishings and a coupon to the gift shop. Drop in and decorate your 'dream home'.

08/20/2026

Model train building and set design help with fine motor skills and creativity. Join the fun with our Model Train Making Workshop!
Tuesday, August 25th 11:00 am - 12:30pm. Top floor of the YCCC building
For ages 12 and up, as wire snips and cutting tools will be used.
Cost: $5 CASH only $ Must register at - [email protected]