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Through the experience of an immigrant family's 1890s home, the Voelker Orth Museum, Bird Sanctuary and Victorian Garden, preserves and interprets the cultural and horticultural heritage of Flushing, Queens and adjacent communities to engage their ever-changing populations.

The Museum is a welcoming place to relax, learn, and recharge. Through its period rooms, rotating exhibitions, and garden, the Museum yields stories and serves as a setting to explore, connections to our recent past and local environment.

The Museum opened to the public in 2003 —just seven years after the passing of the family’s last surviving member, Elisabetha Orth.  She donated the property in her will with the stipulation that her family’s home become a museum promoting local history and providing a Victorian-styled garden offering a sanctuary for wild birds. The house remained the home of the family for nearly its entire history and its appearance has changed little.  Click to learn more about the family.

The Voelker Orth Museum offers house tours, exhibitions, performances, talks and workshops, and educational programs year-round.  The property became a New York City Landmark in 2007 and was added to the National Register of Historic Sites in 2020, ensuring that this small corner of Flushing's history endures to be studied, experienced and simply enjoyed by generations to come. Click to learn about the Museum & the Property.

The Voelker Orth Museum operates as a private non-profit organization. Its programs receive funding from public and private sources. The Museum acknowledges support from Con Edison, Councilman Sandra Ung, the Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, the Museum Association of New York, with funds from NYSCA. Programs are supported in part by New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Art.


The Voelker Orth Museum operates as a private non-profit organization. It is governed by a Board of Trustees. Click to see a list of Board membersThe Museum's education programs are is made possible, in part, by Con Edison and the Museum Association of New York. Programs are generously supported in part with public funds, by New York City's Department of Cultural Affairs, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature. The Museum acknowledges support from Queens Borough President Donovan Richards, Councilman Peter Koo, and NYC's Materials for the Arts, its members and individuals.

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