Beneski Hall and Museum of Natural History
The Beneski, which opened in 2006 and houses the Geology Department, has received several architectural awards and features an innovative grouping of teaching spaces, research labs, and faculty offices. The museum contains three floors of exhibits and more than 1,700 individual specimens on display. The entrance floor features freestanding fossil skeletons, including a mammoth, mastodon, and saber-toothed cat.
Media Gallery
Museums
⭐ Museums
Amherst is home three world-renowned museums that annually welcome more than 70,000 visitors. Our campus galleries display works by influential Russian artists and contemporary art by student, faculty, alumni and visiting artists.
Mead Art Museum
The Mead houses Amherst College’s extensive art collection, and offers free admission and more open hours than any other college art museum.
Emily Dickinson Museum
The College’s Emily Dickinson Museum offers guided tours and events that amplify Dickinson’s revolutionary poetic voice from the place she called home.
Eli Marsh Gallery
Located in Fayerweather Hall, the Eli Marsh Gallery displays contemporary works in various mediums by student, faculty, alumni and visiting artists.
Russian Center Art Gallery
Located in the Amherst Center for Russian Culture in Webster Hall, the Russian Center Art Gallery displays art, books and archival materials from the Thomas P. Whitney ’37 collection of Russian art.
Archives & Special Collections
The College Archives & Special Collections in Frost Library houses and displays rare books, written materials of unique value, historic photographs, sound and moving image recordings and much more.
