Museums
Rainy-Day PickMead Art Museum
No admission feeWalk through Amherst College's free art museum, with Assyrian palace reliefs, a 17th-century English paneled room and changing shows.
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Sightseeing
Porter-Phelps-Huntington House
Historic house museum on a 1752 farmstead known as Forty Acres, run by the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Foundation.
130 River Drive, Hadley, MA 01035 · Hadley, MA
About Porter-Phelps-Huntington House
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House sits on a farmstead first erected in 1752 by Moses and Elizabeth Pitkin Porter, later enlarged after their daughter married Charles Phelps. The grounds reflect labor from enslaved people, indentured workers, hired workers, and skilled artisans across generations. Its collections come from one extended family, and the house is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The museum also examines the Indigenous history of the land and the histories of enslavement and dispossession tied to the family's wealth.
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