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Welcome to the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum! Our galleries and events are free and open to the public. For hours of operation and closure announcements, please see below.
Art Museum Hours:
Tuesday–Friday: 11:00 am–5:00 pm
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00–5:00 pm
Closed Mondays and on these major holidays:
New Year's Eve, New Year’s Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving Eve, Thanksgiving Day, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day
The Museum periodically closes for installations during College breaks. We post these closures on our homepage.
Skinner Museum Hours:
May–October, Wednesday and Sunday, 2:00 pm–5:00 pm
And by appointment year-round
Office Hours:
Monday–Friday: 8:30 am–5:00 pm
Inclement weather:
When Mount Holyoke College announces a closure, the Art Museum will also be closed. Please call 413.538.2000 for weather-related closures.
Accessibility:
The Art Museum's lobby, galleries, auditorium, office, and a restroom are wheelchair accessible. Because the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum is housed in an historic building, it is not wheelchair accessible.
Events And Links
The Quilts of Mary Lee Bendolph
The central link in three generations of quiltmakers from Gee’s Bend, Alabama, Mary Lee Bendolph (b. 1935) is celebrated for her bold compositions and improvisational quilting style. She participated in the watershed traveling exhibitions The Quilts of Gee’s Bend (2002-2006) and The...
Enjoy a variety of activities that celebrate the season—including Japanese-inspired folding screens, art seeks, button-making, paper snowflakes, Emily Dickinson-inspired poetry activity, storytimes, and more. Warm up with cookies and hot chocolate! All ages welcome—we hope to see you there!
Nineteenth-Century Sculpture and Its Afterlives
Presenting more than a dozen statuettes from the Museum’s collection, this exhibition invites viewers to experience a century of European and American sculpture, dating from 1890 to 1990. The works have been selected and researched by Dr. Gülru Çakmak and her students in the seminar “Modernizing...