Any visit to Amherst Museum is a feast of sights and sounds -- music, dancing, art and creativity abound, and our collection contains priceless historical photographs and treasured artifacts of the region. Here's a sneak peek at what you're missing:

WNYLegacy.org
is a digital archive of regional treasures of Western New York. Created by the Western New York Library Resources Council, WNYLegacy provides online access to materials that document the rich cultural heritage of the Western New York region. In turn, WNYLegacy is part of the New York Heritage research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists, and others who are interested in the Empire State's history. New York Heritage is a gateway to hundreds of digital collections about New York State's people, places, and institutions and brings together freely accessible digital collections from libraries, museums and archives from all over the state.

Click here to view all Amherst, NY materials in the archive, including items from the Museum's own collection and from institutions throughout the region. Featured above is an image from the Hardy Family Photographs , a collection highlighting 20th century farm life in the Town of Amherst. To the left, Sue Miller Young's book, A History of the Town of Amherst, N.Y., 1818-1965 , published by the Town of Amherst in 1965, has been fully digitized, with high-resolution scans of each page and full-text search capabilities. This project was made possible through a grant from New York State's Regional Bibliographic Databases Program.