Educational programs, permanent and changing exhibitions, workshops, and guided and self-guided tours interpret the Oneida Community story for children and adults.  The curriculum-based field trip Children of the Mansion House serves fourth, fifth and sixth-grade classes as well as youth community groups, camp, and scout troops.  Students participate in hands-on learning centers, make comparisons and draw conclusions, listen to children’s stories from the past, hunt for curiosities, use historic reproductions, as well as examine architecture, primary documents, photos and museum displays.
For high school Advanced Placement U.S. History students, a customized tour of the Mansion House covers many subjects important in the state U.S. History curriculum -- gender, reform, religion, and utopian experiments.  For college, the tour is adapted to the instructor's subject in architecture, anthropology, history, sociology, women's studies, religion, art, or economics. The Mansion House also offers special group tours for specific audiences and provides speakers upon request.

Concerts, recitals, plays, and other presentations provide additional opportunities for revealing Community life. 

                 The Oneida Community Mansion publishes the Oneida Community Journal to

inform the public of the cultural and educational activities at the Mansion House and

to present articles about social and historical topics of interest within the context of

         its mission.

Family portraits, historical photographs in the thousands, a Victorian curio cabinet, period furniture, paintings crafted from silk braidings, books, Community-designed costumes, and ephemera - more than 30,000 objects in all - illustrate the intellectual, cultural, and business life of the Community.         The Mansion House is the queen of the collection; its interior key to Community activities.  Included in self-guided and guided tours are the Big Hall, described as “an embodiment of our life and faith” by founder John Humphrey Noyes, with its exquisite trompe l’oeil ceiling; the Upper Sitting Room that most defined their idea of home; the Community Library where life-long education was encouraged and more than 100 newspapers, magazines, and journals subscribed; and the Vestibule with its cabinet of curiosities.
In the History Room visitors can explore objects from Community life: silk thread and animal traps produced for sale, charming small wooden bureaus made for women to store their keepsakes, original Community china, and early Oneida silverware.

        The Syracuse University Library is the repository for much of the Oneida

        Community collection. 

              Orientation Exhibit. Recently installed exhibit features photographs, text,                artifacts, a timeline and more to provide visitors with a thorough introduction to        the Oneida Community prior to touring the House.

Oneida Game Traps, 1852-1925: The Edward J. Knobloch Collection. Located

in the Sherrill Manufacturing, Inc. administrative office building, the exhibit emphasizes the continuity of the Oneida Community and the Oneida Community, Ltd.  Considered together under the name "Oneida," this was America's most successful trap manufacturer for about 70 years.

Pictorialist Photographs of Harold Noyes, 1890s. Exhibit identifies Noyes as a participant in the movement that proclaimed photography as a high art like painting. 

The Braidings of Jessie Catherine Kinsley. A permanent exhibit featuring exquisite silk braidings and paintings by an Oneida Community descendent. 

Sherrill, 1948: Oneida Ltd.'s Centennial Extravaganza. Tracing its beginning to the start of the utopian Oneida Community (1848), the successful silverware company, Oneida Ltd., invited the City of Sherrill to a 100-year birthday party in 1948. This exhibit recalls what 1948 looked like in the Oneida Ltd. factories and offices, in the Mansion House, and in Sherrill's Noyes Park where 8,000 people gathered to celebrate the event. 

For more information about the historic Mansion House and the Oneida Community, visitors can purchase books and memorabilia at the charming bookstore.          The bookstore features many titles about the utopian, religious community as well as souvenirs and gifts including cards, clothing and games. For more information about titles or for mail order, please call (315) 363-0745 or write to:
Bookstore
Oneida Community Mansion House
170 Kenwood Avenue
Oneida, New York 13421

Open year-round except major holidays.
Monday through Saturday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Sunday:  12 to 4 p.m.   

Regularly scheduled guided tours are conducted Wednesday – Saturday, 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m. (Weekdays only in January and February) Groups of eight or more are welcome by reservation, 315-363-0745.  Self guided tours may be taken at any time.  Admissions prices are as follows:

Adults, $5
Children Under 12, Free
Family Unit (one set of parents and their children), $15
Students, $3
Museum is wheelchair accessible ~

Elementary School/Camp/Scout Program, by reservation