Buffalo. Be Surprised.

Stand where Teddy Roosevelt stood when he took the oath of office. See one of the world’s great collections of modern art. Tour Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandest Prairie Style house. Stroll through one of America’s great neighborhoods. Explore a South American rainforest. Visit the birthplace of the American Arts & Crafts Movement. Visit Buffalo. Be surprised.

The new visitbuffaloniagara.com is designed to give you the insider’s perspective on our surprising city -- Buffalo, New York. You’ll find complete visitor information and travel planning resources for Buffalo and Niagara Falls, as well as everything you need to plan a great getaway, including information on Buffalo attractions, Buffalo hotels, Buffalo shopping, Buffalo events, and Buffalo dining. Come see what lies at the other end of Niagara’s rainbow.

THE BUZZ ABOUT BUFFALO

We're known for our winters here, so why not celebrate it! The Buffalo Powder Keg Winter Festival, a free downtown event, is planned for February 27-28. Scheduled events include live music, including a performance by Ron Hawkins of Lowest of the Low, the world's largest ice maze, tubing, skating, snow sculpture contests, and bubble hockey tournaments. Everything you love about winter snowballed into one event! Even better, the Powder Keg Winter Festival will coincide with the third annual Labatt Blue Buffalo Pond Hockey Tournament at the Erie Basin Marina. More...

The New Yorker magazine has named “Heat Waves in a Swamp: the Paintings of Charles Burchfield” as one of the best art exhibitions of 2009. The exhibit, organized by artist Robert Gober, is coming to Buffalo’s Burchfield Penney Art Center from March 6th through May 23rd after a much acclaimed run at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This is the first major retrospective of Burchfield’s work to be mounted in twenty years. After its appearance in Buffalo, the exhibition travels to the Whitney Museum in New York City in the summer of 2010. More...

Get to know what's under your skin at Sesame Street Presents: The Body at the Buffalo Museum of Science. This amazing educational exhibition teaches children how their bodies work and how to stay healthy as they hop, jump, run and dance their way through this hands-on Sesame Street adventure! Hurry! Oscar's Sneeze Machine is only in Buffalo February 27 - June 9.

March 8th-14th is Restaurant Week in Western New York. This third biannual event allows restaurant-goers the opportunity to sample some of their old favorites or venture off to try some new establishments. More than 150 independently-owned local restaurants are scheduled to participate, each offering a prix fix menu for $20.10. More...