The Northampton Center for the Arts...2 blocks
www.nohoarts.org
The Northampton Center for the Arts is dedicated to providing a place where people can dance, display art, make music, perform theatre, and be immersed in the creative process. They strive to make low-cost, high-value performance and exhibit space available to a wide range of artists and audiences in the community.

The Paradise City Arts Festival...1 mile
www.paradisecityarts.com
The Paradise City Arts Festival is a nationally acclaimed show that offers a spectacular array of contemporary craft and fine art, set amongst the blazing fall foliage of western Massachusetts along the majestic Connecticut River. The high caliber of the contemporary craft, art, and sculpture at Paradise City has set a new standard for quality and diversity.

The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead & The Evergreens...8 miles
www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org
The Dickinson Homestead, where Emily spent all but 15 years of her life, was mentioned frequently in her intensely idiosyncratic and strikingly modern poetry. Devoted Dickinson readers visit the Homestead and The Evergreens, the Italianate home built next door by Emily's brother Austin Dickinson, to walk today where Emily walked and to see what Emily saw.

The Fine Arts Center...7 miles
www.umass.edu/fac
The UMass Fine Arts Center seeks to engage audiences in the arts, embrace diversity, and uphold the highest standards for arts education. Comprehensive in scope, the center offers the region's only mix of classical music, dance, theater, jazz, Broadway, special events, and gallery exhibitions.

The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art...7 miles
www.picturebookart.org
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art is a new museum celebrating the art of the picture book. Founded by Eric Carle and his wife Barbara, the museum is for visitors of all ages: children and families, teachers and librarians, scholars, and everyone interested in the art of the picture book.

The Yiddish Book Center...9 miles
www.yiddishbookcenter.org
The National Yiddish Book Center is a vibrant, non-profit organization working to rescue Yiddish and other modern Jewish books and celebrate the culture they contain. Supported by 30,000 members, it is now the largest and fastest-growing Jewish cultural organization in America.

Jones Library...10 miles
www.joneslibrary.org
This unique public library serves local residents and visitors in a colonial-style building opened in 1928 with its much loved "living room" atmosphere. Recently renovated, the Jones Library contains exhibits on Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Robert Francis, as well as a wealth of historical information about Amherst and the Pioneer Valley.

The Museum of Fine Arts...14 miles
www.springfieldmuseums.org/the_museums/fine_arts/
The Springfield Museum of Fine Arts features 14 galleries of paintings, sculpture, and works on paper. Six galleries are devoted to American art from the 18th through the 20th centuries. You'll also find European paintings from the 14th through the 20th centuries, including stunning works by Chardin, Tiepolo, Gericault, and Corot. The Impressionist Gallery boasts works by Degas, Pisarro, Gauguin, and Monet. A fine Dutch and Flemish collection includes paintings by Ferdinand Bol and one of the earliest signed works by Jacob van Ruisdael.

The Springfield Science Museum...14 miles
www.springfieldmuseums.org/the_museums/science/
The museum features a Dinosaur Hall dominated by a life-sized replica of Tyrannosaurus rex; the multi-level R.E. Phelon African Hall with a mounted elephant, giraffe, and other animals, as well as exhibits on African cultures; the Solutia Eco-Center, an aquarium and live animal center; Mineral Hall; hands-on exhibits investigating natural and physical science; Native American Hall; a 100-seat planetarium; an observatory; and an exhibit on the Springfield-based aviation pioneers, the Granville Brothers.

Quadrangle...15 miles
www.springfieldmuseums.org/
Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle
Augustus Saint-Gaudens' statue "The Puritan" welcomes visitors to the Quadrangle, home of four fine museums: the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Springfield Science Museum, and the Connecticut Valley Historical Museum.

Jacob's Pillow...36 miles
www.jacobspillow.org
Celebrating its 77th season in 2009, the Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival attracts visitors from all over the world. Founded by dance pioneer Ted Shawn in the 1930's, the Pillow is recognized as one of America's irreplaceable dance treasures and was named to the National Register of Historic Places. Jacob's Pillow is located in the Berkshires town of Becket in Western Massachusetts.

Mass MoCA...45 miles
www.massmoca.org
The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) exhibits some of the liveliest, most evocative — and provocative — art being made today, in a beautifully restored 19th century factory. Critics have awarded MASS MoCA the nation's most coveted architectural and historic preservation honors for the breathtaking renovation of its buildings. Its thought-provoking, visually stunning exhibitions have put it on the "must-see" list of art lovers from around the world.