Festival Dates: December 13, 14 and 15, 2024

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Check our website in mid-June for a list of special guests and draft program. Tickets for special events will likely go on sale in July.

Back to Regular Hours — Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am – 4 pm

Museum Temporary Location (while original Museum undergoes major construction) -- 76 Fall Street.

Tmporary location is at 76 Fall Street, right in the center of town. 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).

All of the exhibits have been moved and some new exhibits have been added. This temporary museum space at 76 Fall St. is being provided to us through the generosity of Generations Bank while major construction takes place at our permanent location at 32 Fall St.

  • 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

“You are the salt of the earth. And It’s A Wonderful Life is my memorial to you!”

-- Frank Capra, The Name Above The Title, An Autobiography
Be a Part of the Museum’s Expansion Including the Re-Creation of Sets from the Movie, Interpretation of the Continued Relevance of its Message ... and Much More

Help re-create Gower’s Drugstore

Sit at the counter and shop from display cases in Gower's Drugstore

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Stand up against Mr. Potter and bullying

...in an interactive exhibit that re-creates this scene.

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Lift the knob off the Newel Post

...in either despair or exhilaration on the staircase & in the elevator

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Experience

...the hope of Zuzu's Petals.


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Together we will Create a Unique Museum Filled with the Spirit of Those Who Have Impacted Our Lives

“Evidently what rings true in one heart will toll the same bell all over the world”

-- Frank Capra, The Name Above The Title, An Autobiography

Come Together

to believe in ourselves and believe in each other again

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Raise a cup of kindness

for "Auld Lang Syne" in the Bailey Living Room re-creation of this scene

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Donate 19.46 or more

...to be listed as a Founder of the Museum

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All you can take with you is that which you’ve given away