National Museum of Play at The Strong
National Museum of Play at The Strong is a museum in New York, at a modelled elevation of 158 m. Oak Mountain stands 358 m to the south-southeast, 20 miles off. The nearest named place is Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park, a park 0.1 miles away. Great Lakes Seaway Trail passes 2.7 miles off.
The story
The Strong National Museum of Play (also known as just The Strong Museum or simply the Strong) is part of The Strong in Rochester, New York, United States. Established in 1969 and initially based on the personal collection of Rochester native Margaret Woodbury Strong, the museum opened to the public in 1982, after several years of planning, cataloguing, and exhibition development for the museum's new building in downtown Rochester. For at least fifteen years after it opened, the mission of the museum was to interpret the social and cultural history of average Americans between 1830 and 1940, under the direction of H.J. Swinney and William T. Alderson. Mrs. Strong's collections of dolls and toys, American and European decorative arts, prints, paintings, Japanese crafts, and advertising ephemera provided a firm foundation for this mission, and were supplemented with collections purchased and donated to more fully support the museum's early mission. The museum received considerable local and national publicity/support as well as substantial financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Exhibitions and Public Programs division. In the 1990s, the museum's Board of Trustees and director changed the museum's mission to collecting, preserving, and interpreting the history of play. Since then, it has refined and increased its collections (hundreds of thousands of items), and expanded thrice, in 1997, 2006, and 2023. The museum is now one of six Play Partners of The Strong, which is also home to the National Toy Hall of Fame, the International Center for the History of Electronic Games, the World Video Game Hall of Fame, and the Brian Sutton-Smith Library and Archives of Play, and produces the American Journal of Play.
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Dates from 1969.
Wikidata Q7753203, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
- Fee
- Yes
- Step-free access
- Yes
How to reach it
- 2.7 mi off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail, National
Overlooks nearby
- Owen's Point · 6 mi
- Overlook · 9 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Park: 0.1 mi
- Wadsworth Square: 0.2 mi
- Washington Square Park: 0.2 mi
- Midtown Commons: 0.3 mi
- Midtown Parcel 5: 0.3 mi
- Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial: 0.2 mi
- Civil War monument: 0.2 mi
- Liberty Pole: 0.4 mi
- Rochester Veterans Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Nathaniel Square Dedication: 0.5 mi
- Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County: 0.4 mi
- Rundel Memorial Library: 0.4 mi
- Broad Street Bridge: 0.4 mi
- Main Street Bridge: 0.5 mi
- Harro East Ballroom: 0.6 mi
- I ❤️ ROC: 0.4 mi
- Signature Gateway: 0.4 mi
- Mill Wheel: 0.4 mi
- River Currents: 0.4 mi
- Water Table: 0.4 mi
- Pinnacle Hill: 1.4 mi
- Cobbs Hill: 1.7 mi
- Methodist Hill: 6.7 mi
- Craig Hill: 7.2 mi
- Paddy Hill: 7.5 mi
- Rochester Contemporary Art Center: 0.3 mi
- Rochester Auto Museum: 0.5 mi
- Memorial Art Gallery: 0.7 mi
- High Falls Museum: 1.0 mi
- George Eastman Museum: 1.1 mi
- Dorris Carlson Reading Garden: 0.3 mi
- Garden of Fragrance: 0.7 mi
- 490 Farms: 0.7 mi
- Good Luck Garden: 0.9 mi
- Swillburg Comm. Garden: 1.0 mi
- Upper Falls: 0.4 mi
- High Falls: 0.9 mi
- Middle Falls: 2.2 mi
- Lower Falls: 2.3 mi
- Norton’s Falls: 2.8 mi
- Windsor Beach: 7.0 mi
- Ontario Beach: 7.5 mi
- Hamlin Beach: 23.3 mi
- Charlotte-Genesee Lighthouse: 6.9 mi
- Keeper's House: 6.9 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 23.1 miles of National Museum of Play at The Strong. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oak Mountain | SSE 154° | 358 m | 20.3 mi |
| Jakman Hill | S 186° | 357 m | 21.7 mi |
| Baptist Hill | SSE 157° | 356 m | 23.1 mi |
| Hopper Hills | SSE 157° | 335 m | 15.5 mi |
| Allens Hill | S 169° | 317 m | 22.2 mi |
| Woodchuck Hill | SSE 169° | 297 m | 18.8 mi |
| Taft Hill | SSE 166° | 287 m | 19.6 mi |
| Baker Hill | SE 132° | 282 m | 12.1 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:15 | 18:45 | 19:23 |
| June solstice | 05:32 | 20:11 | 20:54 |
| September equinox | 06:58 | 18:32 | 19:10 |
| December solstice | 07:40 | 15:52 | 16:39 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: May–Oct.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 26 | 27 | 35 | 47 | 59 | 68 | 72 | 71 | 64 | 52 | 42 | 32 |
| Precip in | 2.5 | 2.1 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 2.9 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 3.3 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 2.8 | 2.7 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Rochester GTR Intl, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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Day trips start here
- Farmington · 18 mi
- Palmyra · 20 mi
- Williamson · 21 mi
- Canandaigua · 24 mi
- Newark · 27 mi
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