Amherst College Museum of Natural History
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11 Barrett Hill RoadAmherst College
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 542-2165
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2 reviews for Amherst College Museum of Natural History
2 reviews in English
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Review from Donna A.
Amherst, MA
2/23/2012
My daughter is a camp counselor K-1 for the town of Amherst. In fact she grew up going to the former Pratt History Museum on campus. She knows the collection very well. She recently brought her group of 19 kids to the Museum. She gave it such high reviews I had to post it.
The tour guide was so informative, and age appropriate, keeping all 19 children actively engaged. The space is of course amazing. All of the children had a wonderful experience and want to go back.
Many thanks to Amherst College for making such a wonderful resource available to the public. You have done much to inspire young minds. -
Review from Elizabeth P.
Princeton, NJ
12/16/2008
Sheer terror. That was the feeling I always associated with my childhood visits to the Amherst College Museum of Natural History. Enormous skeletons of mastodons and saber-tooth tigers, gigantic fossils of brutish-looking fish creatures, and the faint smell of death that hung about the old building all worked together to strike fear in my little heart. And then there were these tiny, sinister-looking ceiling fans buzzing around the whole place, imminently ready to descend and cut me to pieces--ironically, these bothered me most of all.
These visits formed such a deep impression that I did not return until almost two decades later, when a friend needed to turn in a final lab report for a geology class at Amherst. There I was astounded to find all my old nemeses disarmed of their former powers and housed in a gorgeous new building alongside oodles of geological specimens, all accompanied by informative labels. I think being literate and about three feet taller made a huge difference here. If you are a child in the area who is not easily frightened and enjoys encountering the remains of massive, fearsome creatures, I highly recommend you ask the tall person (or people) you know best to take you here.
