Museums in Amherst, Massachusetts

A more unusual museum is the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, which features work by the local curat... More on Moon Handbooks: Massachusetts

A museum dedicated to the art of picture books. More on uptake_content

With three higher learning institutions within its city limits, Amherst is a quintessential college town. Discuss politics over coffee in a local cafe, read a book on the grass outside, or catch a...

Named for Baron Jeffery Amherst, a British general during the last of the French and Indian Wars, the illustrious liberal-arts college was founded in 1821. Robert Frost was a member of the faculty... More on Frommers

Just about everybody who comes here makes straight for the Emily Dickinson Museum. The museum comprises Th... More on The Rough Guide to: New England

Emily Dickinson's troubled life and influential work are chronicled at the Emily Dickinson Museum located i... More on Heritage

The Pratt Museum of Natural History at Amherst College features exhibits that showcase paleontology, geology and the Edward Hitchcock ichnology ... More on MuseumStuff.com

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History houses outstanding collections and exhibits that include vertebrate and invertebrate ... More on uptake_content

This airy complex on the Hampshire College campus is devoted to rescuing and redistributing Yiddish-language books and to celebrating Yiddish culture through films, lectures, and other public even... More on Frommers

An absolutely gorgeous building houses the contents of this massive undertaking. More on igougo

Mudpie, now known as Amherst Community Arts Center is a great, growing art center located right off ... More on Judysbook.com

The institution is known as a compact bastion of American treasures Robert Henri's Salome (1909) is housed here. The museum has recently acquired a collection of Russian art, mostly the fits ... More on travelandleisure

The Mead Art Museum is an American Association of Museums (AAM)-accredited museum that houses the art collections of Amherst College, nearly 14,000 works that have been acquired since 1839. -- Rece... More on MuseumStuff.com

The Museum is filled with decorative arts, paintings, household implements, agricultural tools and other pieces of history from the nearly three hundred years since Amherst was settled. Normal 0 fa... More on Heritage

Housed in the 1750 era Strong House, the Amherst History Museum takes visitors on a journey from the towns colonial past, through its industrial age and into ... More on MuseumStuff.com

The concrete box, designed by architects Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo in 1975, contains a concert hall ad a little- known contemporary ... More on travelandleisure

Situated on a sprawling 1,450-acre campus north of the town center, UMass Amherst's FAC books a variety of international dance, flamenco, jazz, and choral groups. The foremost of the campus's six ... More on Frommers