The museum holds the largest collection of Pan-American Exposition artifacts, to commemorate the Centennial of the l90l. Collections inlcude the Red Jacket Peace Medal, and the Pierce Motorette (an early motor vehicle), and prototype pacemakers, among the 80,000-plus items in our care. Sketches and paintings chronicle two centuries of growth of the city of
Buffalo and surrounding land, and portraiture ranges from Peter Porter, one time Secretary of War, to Presidents Grover Cleveland, and Millard Fillmore.