Solar Spectacle: A Total Solar Eclipse

A once-in-a-century experience!

A Total Solar Eclipse will be occurring over the greater Rochester area and Mumford, NY! Mumford, NY is in the Path of Totality and will experience a 3 minute and 32 second total solar eclipse.

Genesee Country Village & Museum is excited to be offering the opportunity to experience totality in a 19th-century Historic Village – plus three days of celestial celebrations leading up to the total solar eclipse (April 5 – 7). Plan ahead and select your unique home-base for Eclipse Viewing Day – whether that is a private building in the Historic Village, one of our unique hospitality packages, or our Drive-In/Festival Grounds option. Or, select our new individual general admission ticket option!

Don’t forget – your next chance to see a total solar eclipse in Rochester will be in 2144, so make this one extra special! Click the buttons below to grab your tickets now and ensure you get the early bird price.

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Why Mumford, NY?

Enjoy access to acres of wide open space and un-obstructed eclipse views when you join us at Genesee Country Village & Museum in Mumford, NY, for the total solar eclipse on April 8, 2024!

Step outside of the hustle and bustle of cities like Rochester and Buffalo when you join us for a festival-like atmosphere without the crowds or light pollution big cities will see during this weekend of high-traffic tourism. Enjoy free, non-competitive parking, four designated viewing areas with un-obstructed sightline to totality, an all-access pass for food and non-alcoholic beverage included with the cost most ticket packages, fascinating hands-on historical programming in our 19th-century Village, Gallery, and Nature Center, and so much more.

Less than 2,000 lucky individuals (spread out over hundreds of acres!) will have the opportunity to join us for this solar spectacle – don’t hesitate – reserve your spot today!

Explore the 19th-century eclipse experience

Programming in the Historic Village

Enjoy a once-in-a-century experience on Monday, April 8! As you make your way around our 19th-century Historic Village, explore how 19th-century Americans viewed, understood, and recorded total solar eclipses (there was a total solar eclipse in Rochester in 1860!).

-Learn about the connections between eclipses, the weather, and the US Navy in the Telegraph Office
-Visit the Print Office to see reproductions of 19th-century articles about eclipses in production
-Learn about women in science like Maria Mitchell (pictured here) when you visit the Romulus Seminary
-Write your own celestially-inspired poem and learn about Mary Loomis Todd in the One Room Schoolhouse
-Explore religious interpretations of celestial phenomena in the Shaker Trustees’ Building
-Delve into celestial photography in the Eastman Boyhood Home
-Learn all about 19th-century astronomical observation and scholarship in Rochester through historical figure Lewis Swift in the Livingston-Backus House  and so much more!