Museums in Amherst Center, Massachusetts

The Amherst History Museum is an amusement park for the History buff. The museum exhibits most of its collection in its gallery and period rooms. Its current exhibition, "Emily Dickinson's Amherst," features the poet's white dress ... More on MuseumsUSA.org

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

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 Amherst Fire Department provides comprehensive fire, rescue, EMS, and fire prevention services to the Town of Amherst, including the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College, and Hampshire College, ... More on Amherstma.gov

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

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

Designated a National Historic Monument, the Homestead is where Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and where... More on Frommers