Seneca Art & Culture Center at Ganondagan

Victor, New York

Just southeast of Rochester, New York, lies Ganondagan (ga·NON·da·gan), the site of what used to be a flourishing 17th-century Native American community. Ganondagan was the principal and largest town of the Seneca people, once populated with 4,500 residents and 150 bark longhouses. Considered the final resting place of the Mother of Nations, who inspired the warring nations of this region to join together to form the Iroquois Confederacy, it is a revered landmark to the Seneca, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, Mohawk, and Tuscarora people.

Today, Ganondagan hosts year-round special events, site interpretation, and educational programs that share important facets of United States history, show the Haudenosaunee influence on contemporary life and introduce thousands of visitors to the Seneca and Iroquois peoples of today.

Amaze Design worked with architect François de Menil to design the new Center that welcomes visitors and orients them to all there is to see and do here.

Architect: François de Menil, New York, NY 
Exhibit Fabrication: Explus, Sterling, VA