A MEANINGFUL, ENDURING HOLIDAY GIFT — PLACE A STAR, BELL OR THEATER SEAT PLAQUE IN OUR EXPANDED MUSEUM IN HONOR OF A PERSON WHO HAS IMPACTED YOUR LIFE
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SPECIAL 2025 COMMEMORATIVE CALENDAR
We will be producing a special commemorative calendar in 2025. It will be a 16-month calendar that starts in September 2025 and takes us through the 80th Anniversary of the film in December 2026. We did this for the 70th Anniversary.
We hope to have the special calendar available for purchase next summer. Keep an eye on our website.
FESTIVAL DATES: December 13, 14 & 15 -- Click on 2024 Festival Information Button (below) for Schedule of Events Involving the Actors & Other SpeakersTickets for Special Events are almost sold out.
Most tickets for our events are sold out A few are still available for the Friday night dinner:
Friday, December 13: Frank Capra's Preview Dinner -- Click on the BLUE button below for tickets
Tickets -- $140 plus tax and fees
See you in December!
Temporary Location (until 2026) is 76 Fall Street. Open Tuesday through Saturday, from 11 am – 4 pm. Suggested admission — $5/adult.
We are at our Temporary Location while our original Museum is undergoing major construction and expansion. All of the exhibits have been moved to the temporary location and some new exhibits have been added.
The temporary location is right in the center of Fall St. It is an old bank building with two big pillars and a blue door. We are across the street from the Seneca Falls Visitor Center and right next to El Bajio Mexican Restaurant.
DO NOT FOLLOW YOUR GPS -- it will take you to the back parking lot and we do not have a public back entrance. Park on Fall Street.
We also have an additional space two doors down at 80 Fall Street. There is a great free photo opportunity with the "You Are Now in Bedford Falls Sign". This space also shows some of our plans for our future Museum, additional photos of the actors today, and includes an expanded gift shop, including items signed by Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu).
CLOSED THANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS EVE AND CHRISTMAS DAY.
Four cast members of "It's a Wonderful Life" who had speaking roles at our Museum: (left to right) Karolyn Grimes (Zuzu Bailey), Carol Coombs (Janie Bailey), Jeanine Roose (Young Violet Bick) and Jimmy Hawkins (Tommy Bailey). Photo by Henry Law
Bells on the bridge honoring people who have impacted the lives of others.
Design concept by Caroline O'Donnell Architecture includes re-creation of sets from "It's a Wonderful Life." First floor plan. You will have the opportunity to place a bell in the Museum or stars and planets in our theater for someone who has impacted your life.
Design concept by Caroline O'Donnell Architecture includes, second floor. You will have the opportunity to place a bell in the Museum or stars and planets in our theater for someone who has impacted your life.
Jeanine Roose ("Young Violet Bick") in her garden. Photo by Henry Law. Click photo to read excerpt from Jeanine Roose's exhibit at our Museum.
Virginia Patton Moss in 2017 with an armadillo she sculpted which is now on display at the It's a Wonderful Life Museum (photo by Henry Law); Virginia Patton as "Ruth Dakin Bailey" in "It's a Wonderful Life" in 1946. Click photo to read recollections of Virginia Patton Moss.
“You are the salt of the earth. And It’s A Wonderful Life is my memorial to you!”
Help re-create Gower’s Drugstore
Sit at the counter and shop from display cases in Gower's Drugstore
Stand up against Mr. Potter and bullying
...in an interactive exhibit that re-creates this scene.
Lift the knob off the Newel Post
...in either despair or exhilaration on the staircase & in the elevator
Experience
...the hope of Zuzu's Petals.
Help Make it Happen
“Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world”
Come Together
to believe in ourselves and believe in each other again
Raise a cup of kindness
for "Auld Lang Syne" in the Bailey Living Room re-creation of this scene
Donate 19.46 or more
...to be listed as a Founder of the Museum
