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![Museum Preparator Jacqueline Finnegan installs vinyl Museum Preparator Jacqueline Finnegan installs vinyl](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/people_2016su_staff_finnegan_aug05_0017-lpr_0.jpg?itok=65MYPzUv)
This week MHCAM reopens to the public after almost three months of installations. Associate Curator Hannah Blunt provides a brief overview of what has been happening behind the scenes, and what visitors will discover in the re-installed galleries.
![Hendrick Andriessen (Flemish, 1607-1655), Vanitas Still Life (detail), ca. 1650 Hendrick Andriessen (Flemish, 1607-1655), Vanitas Still Life (detail), ca. 1650](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/naomi-death.jpg?itok=l8JuVHic)
Self-guided tour, one of MHCAM Journeys, developed for visitors in Summer 2016
![Maker Unknown (Apsáalooke, Crow), Woman's saddle with stirrups (detail), late 19th or early 20th century Maker Unknown (Apsáalooke, Crow), Woman's saddle with stirrups (detail), late 19th or early 20th century](https://artmuseum.mtholyoke.edu/sites/default/files/styles/image_large/public/mh_sk_k_65_v7_01_crop.jpg?itok=SHcNzi8E)
Self-guided tour, one of MHCAM Journeys, developed for visitors in Summer 2016
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Last month, a blogger for OnlyInYourState.com deemed Mount Holyoke’s Joseph Allen Skinner Museum the number one weirdest place in Massachusetts. Aaron F. Miller, MHCAM’s Associate Curator of Visual and Material Culture, takes the opportunity to explore the top 10 weirdest objects in the Skinner Museum collection. A mummified wedding cake? A Teddy Roosevelt nutcracker? Read on to learn about these wondrous oddities!
On April 20, 2016, MHCAM hosted “Africana Studies at the Art Museum,” an event organized by Aladrianne Young ’16. An Africana Studies major and a receptionist at the Museum for three years, Aladrianne became interested in representations of diversity in academia and the art world. She conceived of this brilliantly successful event in order to explore issues of racial and gender identity, oppression, and history through artworks drawn almost exclusively from the MHCAM collection. Aladrianne recruited six student presenters to share their research, poetry, and personal anecdotes about works by Faith Ringgold, Kehinde Wiley, Alison Saar, and Shirin Neshat.
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