GIVESeparate from the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum and its nearly 7,000 objects represent a lifetime of collecting by Joseph Allen Skinner (1862–1946). The Skinner Museum holds important collections of minerals and fossils, early lighting, rare books and documents, furniture, maritime objects, firearms, glass and ceramics, tools and farm implements, 19th-century souvenirs, Native American and other Indigenous cultural items, and more. Highlights include a mid-19th century ship’s figurehead from Ipswich, Massachusetts; a 115-pound meteorite from Canyon Diablo, Arizona; and the door to the 18th-century childhood home of Mary Lyon, the founder of Mount Holyoke College. These are just a few of the many thousands of fascinating objects in the permanent collection of the Skinner Museum.
Skinner Museum Highlights
