Rochester Museum & Science Center

A new exhibit opening this week at the Rochester Museum & Science Center will celebrate 200 diverse Rochester-area women and showcase how they helped shape and inspire the community.

Among those featured: Rochester native Aesha Ash, who was the first Black female full-time faculty member at the School of American Ballet in New York City; Anna Murray Douglass, key stationmaster on Rochester’s underground railroad and the first wife of famed abolitionist Frederick Douglass; and the Democrat and Chronicle’s own Tina MacIntyre-Yee and Mary Chao.

The exhibit also showcases more than 40 Haudenosaunee women. 

“The Changemakers: Rochester Women Who Changed the World” is a community-curated exhibition that opens Friday in the museum’s Riedman Gallery and adjacent spaces on museum’s third floor at 657 East Ave., Rochester. The exhibition, set to run through spring 2021, features hands-on interactives, including a flight simulator made from a decommissioned Cessna plane.

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