Newsletter - Spring 2000
Feature Story

An Open House at Mr. Skinner's "Curiosity Cabinet"

The museum's Student Art Committee cordially invites you to an open house at the Skinner Museum on Monday 1 May, from 3-5 pm. The open house will give those of you who haven't yet visited the Skinner museum the opportunity to see the marvelously eclectic collection amassed by Joseph Skinner during the early part of the 20th century.

Collecting everything from armor to armadillos, fossils to fabric, bibles to butter churns, Skinner opened his collection to the public in the 1930s. When he died in 1946, he bequeathed the Skinner museum to the college.

This past summer museum student workers Anne Stephenson ('00), seen at right, and Bronwen Hodgkinson (FP '00) spent time at the Skinner Museum organizing and researching objects, rearranging cases, and inventorying part of the 5,000-object collection. This spring, the museum will undergo some "sprucing up" on the exterior as well as some refurbishing in the interior.

We hope that you'll join the Student Art Committee and the museum staff on 1 May and help us celebrate a truly unique museum.

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