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The city's highest-profile sports institutions are the teams representing Syracuse University in seven men's sports and 11 women's sports. The Orange, members of the Atlantic Coast Conference along with 14 other schools in the eastern half of the country, are perennial national powers in men's basketball and men's lacrosse, and also have a rich football tradition. The main athletic facilities are all on campus, with the best-known being the JMA Wireless Dome (historically Carrier Dome), home to the football, basketball, and lacrosse teams. The Dome, seating over 49,000 for football and lacrosse and over 33,000 for basketball, is by far the largest domed stadium on a U.S. university campus, and the world's largest facility by capacity regularly used for basketball.
The Syracuse Orange are the athletic teams that represent Syracuse University in Syracuse, New York. The university fields 20 varsity teams in NCAA Division I, most of them in the Atlantic Coast Conference, which Syracuse joined in 2013 after more than three decades as a founding member of the Big East Conference. The teams take their name from the school color, adopted in 1890; until 2004 they were known as the Orangemen and Orangewomen. The mascot is Otto the Orange.
Houses 11,000 works of American art, with an excellent permanent collection of ceramics, in a building designed by architect I.M. Pei.
The canal no longer passes through downtown Syracuse, but this museum celebrates its history. Features the last standing weighlock on the canal, a replica of an old canal freighter, and a number of historical exhibits.
The MoST
A kid-friendly science museum and learning center, equipped with an interactive rock-climbing wall, geologic cave, flight simulator, and a giant, multi-level indoor playhouse, among other exhibits. Also includes a domed IMAX theater and planetarium.
Permanent and temporary exhibits on local history.
Heritage center describing the history of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Native Americans from Central New York.
Small museum featuring exhibits and artifacts on Syracuse's historical salt industry.