Archive for the ‘Amherst’ Category

Mar 20 2010

Local News for Amherst

Published by Jo Landers under Amherst, Local News Feeds

Local news and rss feeds for Amherst, MA

Dec 22 2009

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History

Published by Jo Landers under Amherst, Especially for Kids, Science and Nature Museums

The Amherst College Museum of Natural History (formerly the Pratt Museum) contains three floors of exhibits and over 1700 individual specimens. There are a variety of displays on vertebrate evolution and extinction, geology of the Connecticut River Valley, and the world’s largest collection of dinosaur tracks, many from…

Dec 25 2009

The Bassett Planetarium

Published by Jo Landers under Amherst, Science and Nature Museums

The Bassett Planetarium, at Amherst College in Amherst, MA is open to groups by appointment only. Admission is free.

The planetarium is unusual in that it has not gone digital. The night sky is shown…

Nov 08 2008

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Published by Jo Landers under Amherst, Art Museums and Galleries, Especially for Kids

Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art

Founded in part by Eric Carle, the renowned author and illustrator of more than 70 books, including the 1969 classic The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is the first full-scale museum in this country devoted to national and international picture book art, conceived and built with the aim of celebrating the art that we are first exposed to as children. The Museum features three Galleries…

    

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