The Walter Elwood Museum is a museum of local history in

Amsterdam, New York Amsterdam is a city in Montgomery County, New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 18,219. The city is named after Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The City of Amsterdam is surrounded on the northern, eastern ...

. The museum is currently located in at 100 Church Street in the former Noteworthy Complex and historic Sanford & Sons Carpet Mills building. The museum was founded in 1939 by Walter Elwood, a local history teacher, who began collecting local artifacts in the 1930s. The museum features interactive exhibits of local history, including area industry and textile mills, politics, the Victorian era and natural history. Collections include buttons, objects crafted by the Mohawk, hand-made doll clothes, glass teaching slides, political buttons, and fossils and shells. The museum has been housed in several locations in Amsterdam over time, including the Fifth Ward School, then the

Guy Park Avenue School } The Guy Park Avenue School is a historic school building located at 300 Guy Park Avenue in Amsterdam, New York, Amsterdam, Montgomery County, New York. It was built in 1902 and is a two-story, square brick building on a raised stone foundation. ...

, and then the Guy Park Manor in 2009. In 2011, damage from

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forced the museum to close until a new home could be found. The museum opened in its current location in 2013.

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Walter Elwood Museum
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