Past Exhibits at the Empire State Plaza & Capitol

2025

2025 AAPI Exhibit at the Capitol

Resilience & Rights: AAPI Courage in the Face of Adversity

2025 AAPI Heritage Month Exhibition

A Lion Dance scene from a performance during the 2022 Lunar New Year celebration at the Empire State Plaza in Albany, NY.

2025 Lunar New Year Exhibition

2021 MLK Student Art Exhibit Entry

2025 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay...

View submissions from students around New York State honoring Dr. King's Six...

NY Firsts - Wesleyan Chapel, site of the 1848 Women’s Rights Convention

New York Firsts

This exhibit celebrates an array of New York “firsts."

HHM Hero Review

2025 Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit

BHM Civil Rights March on Washington

Black History Month Exhibition 2025

“Fight or Be Slaves:" A. Philip Randolph and the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car...

Women's History Month Exhibit

Moving Forward Together Women's History Month Exhibit

Women Educating & Inspiring Generations

Frontlines of Freedom Liberation Day March

Frontlines of Freedom: The Transgender Fight for Visibility and...

The Transgender Fight for Visibility and Rights

Civil Rights for All Exhibit

Civil Rights for All: The New York State Human Rights Law Turns...

View of the panels and photos included in the DREAM exhibition at the NYS Capitol.

2025 DREAM Exhibit

2024

Sweeping view of the Pride in Print Exhibition timeline.

Exhibition on view June 5 through June 28, 2024.

The 2024 Black History Month Exhibit in the New York State Capitol.

1964 New Yorkers Who Shaped History

2024 Black History Month Exhibition

Image of the 2024 Lunar New Year Exhibition on the Empire State Plaza Concourse

2024 Lunar New Year Exhibition

Image of the 2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition in the NYS Capitol featuring several panels with text and images.

2024 Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit

Image of the 2024 Dream Exhibit panels in the New York State Capitol.

2024 Dream Exhibit

Disability Rights & Employment Awareness Month Exhibition

Capitol Holiday Ornament Tree and Menorah

County-Inspired Ornaments at the New York State Capitol

Image of the Military Medicine Exhibition

Military Medicine

Student art work from the New York State Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay Exhibit.

2024 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay...

View submissions from students around New York State honoring Dr. King's Six...

Black and white image of women protesting for the Equal Rights Amendment

Champions of Equality

New York Women and the Equal Rights Amendment

The Tower that Never Was

The Tower That Never Was

Black and white image of marchers protesting the police beating of Peter Yew.

Focus on Justice

Exhibition on view May 1 through 31 in the New York State Capitol

Image of the Lafayette painting and exhibit in the New York State Capitol.

The Nation's Guest

Exhibition on view through Thursday, October 31, 2024

Image of Pixley Falls

100 Years: We’ll See You Out There

A celebration of 100 years of New York State Parks and Historic Sites

2023

Star Power Exhibit in the New York State Capitol

Historic Sightings at the New York State Capitol

Capitol Holiday Ornament Tree and Menorah

County-Inspired Ornaments at the New York State Capitol

A black and white photo of the Gay Activists Alliance and Vito Russo marching in the 1st Christopher St Liberation Day Parade

In the Footsteps of Heroes

The Legacy of New York LGBTQ+ Activists

Image of the 2023 Progress to Power Exhibition in the New York State Capitol

Progress to Power: The Legacy of New York’s Black Legislators

The Legacy of New York’s Black Legislators

2023 Lunar New Year Exhibition on the Empire State Plaza Concourse

2023 Lunar New Year Exhibition

DREAM exhibit NYS Capitol 2023

2023 DREAM Exhibit

In October, we celebrate National Disability Employment Awareness Month.

Image of the Shaping Narratives Women's History Month Exhibition

Shaping Narratives

2023 Women’s History Month exhibition

At the age of 10, Tai Ngo Shaw left Vietnam on a boat and made his way to New York.

Asian American Pacific Islander Exhibit

Voices from Asian American Pacific Islander Communities

Image of the New York's Past Present and Future Exhibition in the New York State Capitol

New York's Past Present Future

Exhibition on view in the New York State Capitol

Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit 2023

Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibit

2021 MLK Student Art Exhibit Entry

2023 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay...

View submissions from students around New York State honoring Dr. King's Six...

2022

Malta Pride Flag in the Map Photo

Flag in the Map

Exhibition on View Monday - Friday, October 17, 2022 through January 2, 2023.

1993 Disability Independence Parade NYC

2022 Exhibit Archive

2022 Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition

Hispanic Heritage Month Exhibition

On View Thursday, September 15 through Friday, October 14, 2022.

Pride Flag flies over the NYS Capitol

With Dignity and Pride: Photography by Vincent Cianni

Photography by Vincent Cianni

Isamu Noguchi Studies for the Sun

Isamu Noguchi & Kenzo Okada

An exhibit celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month in the...

First and Foremost Exhibition Photo

First & Foremost

An exhibit celebrating Women's History Month in the New York State Capitol

Black History Month 2022 Exhibit

Black History Month 2022 Exhibition

Selections from the New York State Harlem Art Collection.

2023 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay Exhibition Artwork

2022 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay...

View submissions from students around New York State honoring Dr. King's Six...

Historic Postcards

Early 20th century postcards on view in the Empire State Plaza

2021

2021 MLK Student Art Exhibit Entry

2021 NYS Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Art & Essay...

View submissions from students around New York State honoring Dr. King's Six...

2020

Black History Month Exhibit 2020

Black History Month 2020 Exhibition

Works of art by Black and Hispanic artists on view in the New York State Capitol

2019

The People of New York

New York's legacy of diversity

New York Women of Change

An exhibit celebrating Women's History Month in the New York State Capitol

Equality Will Never Be Silent

This exhibit honors the meaningful political, cultural, and artistic impacts of...

New York Leaders: Breaking Barriers

Celebrating Black History Month at the New York State Capitol

Explore the events of a watershed year on view in the Vietnam Memorial Gallery

2018

The Legacy of the Harlem Hellfighters

The 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters" was the first...

Historic Maps Exhibit

See historic land maps of New York State and learn about historical mapmaking...

2017

Women's Suffrage

This collection represents a portion of this historic struggle and a...