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Joseph Allen Skinner Museum
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| The Joseph Allen Skinner Museum on Woodbridge
Street is housed in a group of buildings that include a mid-nineteenth-century
Congregational church moved to this site from the town of Prescott.
The former church houses a diverse collection of Early American
furnishings and decorative arts, shells, and minerals that were
collected by Joseph Allen Skinner, a local manufacturer and
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A one-room schoolhouse contains displays of American
birds and ethnographic artifacts. The Skinner Museum, which
is administered by the art museum, is open to the public without
charge on Wednesday and Sunday afternoons from May through October.
The Skinner Museum was created in 1939 and was donated to the
College in 1946.
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