The Spencerport Depot & Canal Museum is starting to actively collect new objects so we are able to keep our displays fresh each year. We would appreciate any donations of objects that fit within our collections policy for the museum. If you have something on our wish list that you would like to donate please contact our director Nora Venezky to discuss your donation either at director@spencerportdepot.com or at 585-352-0942.
We also have some items that we could use around the museum:
Pick-nick Table/ bench
Outdoor Adirondack/rocking chairs
Travel size toiletries
printer paper
What we are collecting:
Local History Artifacts related to Spencerport/Ogden
- Businesses
- Important people
- Farming
- Spencerport Schools
Transportation
- Erie Canal/Boats
- Tools
- Models
- Boat parts
- Pictures
- Postcards
- Businesses related
- Lanterns
- buoy
- mem-orabilia
- Trolley (RLBRR)
- Workers tools
- Spikes
- memorabilia
- Train (New York Central Falls view Branch)
- Worker tools/uniforms
- Spikes
- Train parts
- Lanterns
- memorabilia
- Car/Automobile (531)
- License plates
- Road signs
- memorabilia
- Bicycles
- Bike parts
- Cycle the Erie Canal
- memorabilia
- Travel
- Old trunks/luggage
- Old maps
Communication
- Telephones
- Typewriters
- Old radios
- Small black and white TV
- Telegraph machines
- Printing press/moveable type
Other
- Butter churn
- Spinning wheel
- Farming Tools
- Apple picking
- Cabbage farming
- Potato harvesting
- Ice Tongs
- Milk Bottles (Morgan/Pisher/ Local)
- Old Photographs
- General store goods (old food containers/ medicine, jars, scale, etc.)
- Other old household antiques (washboard,
- Games (cup and ball, hoop and stick, Jacobs ladder)
