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NOTE: Hours of Operation Starting September 2023
Thursday - Saturday: 11 am - 5 pm - Group & walk-in public tours are available.
Tuesday & Wednesday: 11 am - 5 pm - Group tours with an appointment only.
*No public walk-in tours.
Sunday & Monday - Closed
We hope you enjoy your visit to our website and look forward to seeing you in person.
Help Save The Bundy Museum of History & Art
In order to ensure that the Bundy will remain open and able to continue its operations,
programs, and scheduled events, we are asking for your help.
For more information on how you can help, please click the button below to read a thank you statement from us to our members, friends, visitors, and the community at large.
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2023 News & Announcements
Bundy Fest Fundraiser Press Release 2023 (FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 12/8/2023)
Jeff Rasmussen
The Bundy Museum of History and Art
607-772-9179
jeffrasmussen@bundymuseum.org
BINGHAMTON, New York. (Dec. 8, 2023) The Bundy Museum of History and Art hosted “Bundy Fest” on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 to raise funds for the museum in response to recent financial hardships, in particular, a devastating loss suffered by the museum’s founder, who remains a major financial supporter of the nonprofit organization.
“Bundy Fest” Raises Thousands in Funds for The Bundy Museum. Fundraiser Was Held In Response to Financial Hardships.
Bundy-Fest: Save the Bundy Museum Fundraiser
Join us on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023 from 12 pm - 8 pm, located at the Bundy Museum Annex Theater to help support the Bundy Museum. There will be Raffle Baskets, Food, a Silent Art Auction, and Live Music! All proceeds go to help save the Bundy Museum.
The Bundy Museum Burlap Sack Fundraiser Silent Auction
The deadline for submitting your Burlap Sack artwork for the Bundy-Fest Fundraiser has passed. Thank you to everyone who participated. We will include the piece/s to be auctioned off at a silent auction on First Friday, December 1st & our Bundy-Fest: Save the Bundy Museum Fundraiser event on Saturday, December 2nd, 2023.
2022 News & Announcements
Vote for Bundy Museum of History & Art in the Southern Tier Tuesdays
Source: https://southerntiertuesdays.com/
We’ve been nominated to receive the award from Southern Tear Giving Tuesdays! But we need your help! The funds will support the things we love to do for our community and making our museum blossom.
You can vote each day til Thursday, December 15th 2022, at noon!
Upstate Shredding and WBNG 12 News are proud to partner to Make Every Tuesday Count! Thank you for voting daily to help us tell the stories of great non-profits making a difference in the lives of Southern Tier citizens. Your votes have helped us to distribute over $344K in grants across the Southern Tier.
Vote now to continue the impact.
Check out three Binghamton historical museums!
Visit the Roberson Museum and Science Center, Phelps Mansion Museum, and the Bundy Museum of History and Art to witness Binghamton's stories of the past.
Binghamton University Pipe Dream
Check out three Binghamton historical museums
ORIENTATION ISSUE 2022
By SAM LILLIANTHAL - JUNE 6, 2022
MANY/IMLS “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility” Press Release 2022
Thank you to the NYSCA and MANY Partnership Grants for Capacity Building for Awarding $4,230 to
The Bundy Museum of History & Art!
The Bundy Museum of History & Art selected as a Museum Association of New York Museum partner for “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility.”
Binghamton, NY — The Museum Association of New York (MANY) in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) awarded a total of $502,114 to 103 grantees to assist New York museums with capacity building.
The Bundy Museum will use this grant to fund the acquisition of a new collections management system and a host computer, with the intention of overhauling our current recordkeeping and making publicly available our collections information. By opening up our catalog to the public and having a dedicated space to view objects, we hope that more people will be able to explore the history and art of our area.
To read the full press release, click the button below.
We are putting out the call!
WordPlace Literary Center at the Bundy Museum is seeking a short school bus to be modeled into a "Banned Bookmobile".
We will consider purchasing a bus or providing a tax deduction for one to be donated. For full details regarding the purpose for acquiring a short school bus, please visit the WordPlace webpage.
WBDY-LP 99.5FM Is Now Broadcasting Live Online!
Inaugural Live From First Friday on July 2, 2021 at 6:00PM!!
Friends and Supporters of WBDY-LP, The Bundy Museum, and Binghamton Area Arts and Culture:
We here at The Bundy, WBDY-LP 99.5FM in Binghamton, are thrilled to announce that starting this First Friday, July 2nd, you will be able to tune in online in addition to on your radio! You will be able to find our station on our website at BundyMuseum.org/WBDY as well as on various mobile apps and streaming platforms. We will keep our website updated as we make our way to more platforms, so you can choose your best way to listen to your favorite Bundy programing, local musicians, and area radio personalities!
To celebrate our expanded listening options, we invite you to attend our inaugural Live From First Friday on July 2nd at 6:00PM. Live From First Friday is WBDY-LP’s effort to promote all the goings on during the monthly First Friday Art Walk. Every month, we will be broadcasting and streaming live music and highlighting First Friday artists and galleries.
This month, local singer-songwriter, and Bundy Museum of History and Art Board Member, Bess Greenberg, will be playing and we’ll be discussing the future of Binghamton Community Radio. Stop by in person or tune in!
The Bundy Museum of History & Art will also be having our usual First Friday gallery openings from 6:00PM-9:00PM. Both the Bundy’s local art galleries and our local photography gallery at Binghamton Photo will be available for public viewing. Come by for art, refreshments, and conversations with local artists and members of the Bundy Community. You can visit www.bundymuseum.org/upcoming-events for information on exhibits opening this month.
Thank you to all of our listeners, supporters, and community members for making Binghamton Community Radio possible. We’ve only gotten to where we are now with your help. With your continued support, we hope to keep spreading the word about the amazing work being done right here in the Greater Binghamton Area.
If you would like to support these efforts, please visit the Support WBDY page.
Broome County Arts Council’s Artisan Gallery, in partnership with WordPlace at The Bundy Museum Presents:
The Gifts of Poets: A Sampler - Six Part Series
In celebration of April’s National Poetry month, Broome County Arts Council’s Artisan Gallery, in partnership with WordPlace at the Bundy Museum, presents The Gifts of Poets: A Sampler. Poets featured this week are Elizabeth Cohen, Dante Di Stegano, and Andrei Guruianu. See all of the poets and upcoming schedule on our website: https://www.broomearts.org/education/... The Gift of Poets is hosted by the Broome County Arts Council, Artisan Gallery, and WordPlace Special thanks to WBDY-LP - Community radio station based out of the Bundy Museum of History and Art https://www.bundymuseum.org/wbdy
2021 News & Announcements
The Bundy Museum thanks the Broome County Arts Council United Cultural Fund
for 2021 General Operating Support.
To read the full press release, click the button below.
Thank you to the Community Foundation for South Central New York
Thank you for granting The Bundy Museum $6,000 to support our virtual First Friday art exhibits! With the help of this grant, the Bundy Museum will be able to create new ways for everyone to experience our exhibits virtually!
For information on this award, click the button below.
2020 NYSCA/GHHN Conservation Treatment Grant Program Awardees
The Bundy Museum of History & Art (Broome County) has received $7,500 for the conservation of a three-unity wooden folding screen with 3 inset canvas paintings; work to be done by West Lake Conservators, LTD.
Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) is awarding $115,739 in conservation treatment grants to 22 organizations, located in 14 counties of New York State, in partnership with the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA).
The Conservation Treatment Grant is a partnership of the New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) and Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN), that provides support for treatment procedures by professional conservators to aid in stabilizing and preserving objects in collections of museums, historical, and cultural organizations in New York State. The Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation has provided additional dedicated support for conservation treatment projects on Long Island and New York City.
To see this year's conservation treatment grant awardees, please visit GHHN-Conservation-Treatment-Grant-Awardees.
Congratulations to all those organizations who were funded!
MANY/IMLS CARES Act Grant Project: “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility”
The Bundy Museum of History & Art selected as a Museum Association of New York (MANY) museum partner for “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility.”
The Museum Association of New York (MANY) is thrilled to announce that 96 museums from across New York State have been selected to participate in “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility”, an IMLS CARES Act grant project designed to help museums impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic share their collections and reach audiences who cannot physically visit their museums.
In this two-year program, museums will identify a program to virtually deliver to their audiences, focusing on developing programs from stories found in their collections that reveal cultural and racial diversity in their communities.
To learn more about “Building Capacity, Creating Sustainability, Growing Accessibility” project, please read the full press release below.
This project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services [CAGML-246991-OMLS-20].
Visitors Center / Main Office
The Bundy Museum of History & Art Gift Shop
The Bundy Museum Gift Shop has a number of local history and art related items available for purchase, including books by local authors, such as the newly released Parking Meters into Mermaids by Merrill Oliver Douglas, art and history related items, Bundy Museum apparel and more! These items make a nice gift for any history or art enthusiast!
Stop by our gift shop anytime during our open hours, or during a visit to our art exhibits or museum tours. There is free parking, easily accessible and free to visit.
Visitors Center / Main Office:
133 Main St.
Binghamton, NY 13905
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