The Castellani Art Museum serves as a cultural resource for Niagara University and its surrounding community and an attraction for regional and international tourists. Exhibitions of nationally known and emerging contemporary artists and traditional folk arts are presented each year. Artist talks, workshops and educational programming accompany each exhibition. Niagara County's only collecting art museum, the Castellani has a permanent collection of over 5700 works of art, including well known artists such as Picasso, Miro, Dali, Calder, Nevelson, Warhol and many others. Admission is always free.

Founded by the Vincentian Community in 1856, Niagara University is a private liberal arts university with a strong, values-based Catholic tradition. Its four academic divisions include the colleges of Arts and Sciences, Business Administration, Education, and Hospitality and Tourism Management.
The Library supports users' research needs by providing access to high-quality online and print materials, including articles, books, and DVDs. The Library also assists users in identifying, locating, and interpreting information.

The Niagara County Historical Society (AKA The Niagara History Center) consists of three sites in Lockport, NY: the main complex at 215 Niagara Street; the Erie Canal Discovery Center near the canal; and the Colonel William Bond/Jesse Hawley House, a historic home on the National Register of Historic Places. Our mission is to preserve, promote and interpret the diverse cultural heritage of the people, places and events related to Niagara County and the Erie Canal.  We are a collaborative community resource for lifelong learning for current and future generations. The Niagara History Center is a vital community asset and the catalyst for connecting Niagara County’s past, present and future.

Niagara County Community College was founded on November 8, 1962, as the 25th State University of New York-chartered two-year College. The first classes were held in October 1963 at the original Niagara Falls campus in a former Nabisco Shredded Wheat factory. The college soon outgrew its grounds and built a state-of-the-art, eight-building campus in Sanborn in 1973. The library was designed to be the center of the campus because it was considered the heart of the college. In 2005, the library was renamed the Henrietta G. Lewis Library. The library’s mission is: to promote critical thinking and information literacy utilizing authoritative resources in an inclusive environment.

In 2024, the college was renamed SUNY Niagara. Collection titles will keep the Niagara County Community College or NCCC attribution since it reflects the institution’s name at the time of creation.  

In addition to the collections in New York Heritage, the Henrietta G. Lewis Library published the student newspapers. The digitized newspapers can be accessed through New York State Historic Newspapers at:
• Entricy Herald (1964-1968): http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/np00030003/
• Old Weird Herald (1969-1971): http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/np00030002/
• The Spirit (1972-2013): http://nyshistoricnewspapers.org/lccn/np00030001/

The Newburgh Historical Society is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to the collection and presentation of records and data pertaining to the Hudson River Valley, focusing especially on its Revolutionary War history. The society began in one room in the Newburgh Free Library, moved to two rooms at 48 Second Street, occupied the Glebe House on Clinton Street, and finally found its permanent home in 1954 in the Captain David Crawford House.

As our space has grown, so too has the collection and mission of the Historical Society. In addition to our extensive archives, the Society now boasts an impressive collection of 19th century furnishings, decorative arts, paintings and portraits. We are dedicated to preserving, promoting and protecting the unique history, architecture and culture of Newburgh. That story is told through our collections, programs and events.

The Newburgh Heritage Collection brings together views and descriptions of this city founded in 1709 and chronicled through three centuries. Images were captured by civil servants and by involved citizens who aimed to leave a legacy for future generations. Newburgh tightly filled a four-square-mile hillside overlooking the Hudson River with a streetscape that reflected each architectural era in the American stylebook until it embarked on a massive urban renewal program in the 1960s that demolished over 1,300 buildings. Photographs and descriptions of early Newburgh reveal a robust industrial community that went through the changes emblematic of American small cities.

The Newburgh Free Library is located in the City of Newburgh in the Hudson Valley region of New York State. The library's service area is the Newburgh Enlarged City School District, making it the hometown library for the City of Newburgh, the Town of Newburgh, and the Town of New Windsor. Since 1852 we have provided library resources that enhance our residents’ quality of life.

The Newburgh Free Library collects, organizes and makes available information, materials, and activities to serve the public’s informational, recreational, cultural and educational needs within the limitations of space and budget. The major emphasis of the Local History Collection is historical information about the geographical area encompassed by the Enlarged Newburgh City School District. The collection houses materials in a variety of formats including, but not limited to: books, pamphlets, local church records, local cemetery records, census records for Newburgh and surrounding counties, historic landmarks, land grants, maps, microform duplicated books, cd rom disks, photographs, post cards and scrapbooks.

Presented here is a selection of materials available in the Local History Room. The materials illustrate the social, cultural, economic and political history of the City and Town of Newburgh from the late 18th to the 20th century.

Founded in 1897, The Newark Public Library maintains a small Archives Collection in its Local History Room. A limited repository of materials of local interest, the collection preserves historical records and print items pertaining to the Village of Newark and the Town of Arcadia, in Wayne County, New York.

The mission of the New York State Military Museum and Veteran's Research Center is to preserve, interpret and disseminate the story, history and records of New York State's military forces and veterans. The collection is divided into the museum and the library/archives holdings.

Begun in 1863, the collection did not have a secure, permanent home until the Governor announced in 2001 that the historic armory in Saratoga Springs, NY would be renovated to house the collection. The building, designed by Isaac Perry and constructed in 1889, is a fine example of armory architecture that was popular in upstate New York in the late 1800's.

The museum houses over 10,000 artifacts dating from the Revolutionary War to Desert Storm that relate to New York State's military forces, the state's military history and the contributions of New York's veterans. The artifacts include uniforms, weapons, artillery pieces, and art. A significant portion of the museum's collection is from the Civil War. Notable artifacts from this conflict include Colonel Elmer Ellsworth's (the Union's first martyr) uniform, the medical kit of Jubal Early's surgeon, and the uniform and bugle of Gustav Schurmann (General Philip Kearny's boy bugler). Included in the museum are significant holdings relating to New York's 27th Division in World War I and World War II and notable state military regiments such as the 7th (Silk Stocking Regiment), 69th (Fighting Irish), 71st, and 369th (Harlem Hell fighters) New York Infantry.

The museum also owns the largest collection of state battle flags in the country and the largest collection of Civil War flags in the world. Of the over 1700 flags in the collection, more than 60% are from the Civil War. The flags date from the War of 1812 through the 1991 Gulf War. The museum maintains an exhibit of its flag collection in the state capitol building in Albany where the museum collection was originally housed.

The library and archive holdings in the Veterans Research Center include a 12,000 volume library of military and New York State history, over 9,000 photographs, unit history files, broadsides, scrapbooks, letters and maps. Highlights of the library and archives material include over 2,300 Civil War photographs, a collection of Civil War era newspaper clippings arranged by New York units, and New York National Guard service cards and service records dating from the 1880's to 1965.

The Veteran Research Center operates the New York State Veteran Oral History Program and the Veteran Questionnaire Program. The Oral History Program actively collects interviews of New York State veterans from all eras. The largest part of this collection is of World War II veteran interviews. The Veteran Questionnaire Program, similar to the Oral History Program, solicits and preserves the written and photographic record of the state's veterans.

The “Growing Place” is the perfect name for the New Woodstock Free Library. Chartered on June 16, 1939 by New York State, the library has been in continuous community service. As the community grew, so did the library. With this growth came a need for volunteers. The community has not let the library down. Volunteers have manned the library since its inception. The current librarian, Norm Parry, called the volunteers the “heart and soul” of the library.