Amherst Museum in Amherst, NY is an educational museum with the purpose of help explore history as well as the influence it has on today's life in the Niagara Frontier.
The museum puts special emphasis of the history of the town of Amherst. The museum accomplishes all of this be means of historical research and collections, exhibits, historical buildings, many events and activities.
The Amherst Museum is situated on 35 beautiful acres of land, which are full of many exhibits of interesting pieces of history such as textiles, local history and the Erie Canal. Tours are given of historic churches and homes, as well as the old style one-room schoolhouses. All of these interesting things are on the 35 acres that make up the Museum. The Amherst Museum is open year round, but is closed on Mondays and Holidays.
Some of the exhibits in the "exhibit building" at the Amherst Museum are the history of kitchens, clocks and photographs. The kitchen exhibits give you examples of what kitchens were like in the late 1800s and how they've changed in the last 100 years. The displays some the different furniture, appliances, dishes and other kitchen accessories and the different styles through the years.
The Clock exhibits are every bit as exciting to see as the kitchen displays. We don't full realize all the clocks that have brought us through the years from the ancient sundials and pocket watches to the modern wall clocks and wristwatches of today.
The Amherst Museum photograph collection is a display of photographs showing the people and where and how they lived for the past 175 years.
Other exhibits are a replica pioneer kitchen, a replica 1880s street downtown with all the stores of that time, a country store plus a gallery of old electronic equipment from then to now.
