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Mount Holyoke Summit House

This is also part of the South Hadley Heritage tour. Navigate back to the tour page HERE .

The Summit House atop of Mount Holyoke mountain is a gem. The entire mountain range is crisscrossed by trails. A TRAIL MAP is available. The mountain house is a former hotel that is now a visitor’s center. Great views can be seen of the entire valley. Skinner State Park surrounds the house and forms the entire top of the mountain.

If geology is your interest, then this is a paradise. A self-guided tour brochure is available from the state.

There is a TREE tour at the peak too.

The Met has an awesome painting of the Oxbow area as done by Thomas Cole.

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Art Museum Hours:

• Tuesday–Friday: 11:00 am–5:00 pm
• Saturday and Sunday: 1:00–5:00 pm

Closed Mondays, select College breaks, and days when the College is closed due to inclement weather. Check this page for up-to-date information.

Planned Museum closures for Spring 2024:

• Closed Sunday, May 5, 2024
• Summer closure - beginning Monday, May 27, 2024

Gallery closures:

• The Evans Gallery of Ancient Art is currently closed for reinstallation

Skinner Museum :

Closed for the foreseeable future. Please use the  Visitor Interest form to receive updates about re-opening plans.

Group Visits:

We welcome groups under eight to self-guide during open hours. If your group has eight or more people please contact [email protected] to schedule your visit.

Health and Safety Protocols:

• Masks are welcome per MHC COVID-19 Health and Safety guidelines .
• We ask you to always respect the space of other visitors.
• Please refrain from visiting if you are feeling unwell.

Accessibility:

The Art Museum's lobby, galleries, auditorium, office, and a restroom are wheelchair accessible. The first floor of the Joseph Allen Skinner Museum is wheelchair accessible.

Museum Guidelines:

• Please do not touch the works of art.
• Large bags, backpacks, and coats you are not wearing can be a danger to the art, so please store them before entering the galleries.
• Food and drinks are not allowed.
• Small sketchbooks, notepads, and pencils are welcome in the galleries.
• For the safety of the artwork, pens and markers are not permitted. Please ask the museum guard on duty if you need a pencil.
• Only photography without flash is allowed in the galleries.

Inclement weather:

When Mount Holyoke College announces a closure, the Art Museum will also be closed. Please call 413.538.2000 for weather-related closures.

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Curated by Kymberly S. Newberry

Leading up to fall 2026, the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum’s 150th anniversary, Museum staff will be working with the campus and community to imagine new methods of display. This full-scale rethink aims to broaden and deepen the stories we are able to share, raise the voices of marginalized...

Leading up to our 150th anniversary in fall 2026, MHCAM staff are reimagining our permanent collection galleries. That begins with a fresh take on art from the 20th and 21st centuries. This installation features strengths of our permanent collection—primarily American and European art, with...

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Campus Walking Tour

Tuesday, July 9, 2024 at 2:00 PM until 3:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00

Mount Holyoke College 50 College St South Hadley, MA 01075 United States

• First-year student (current high school student or younger)
• Frances Perkins student (non-traditional age student 25 years and older)
• Transfer student (current college student age 24 years and younger)

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Floor Plans

MHC username and password (same login and password as my.mtholyoke) is required to view floor plans .

You can check out tours of some of our residence halls at the links below:

Walk Through Of MacGregor Hall

Residence Hall Tours: Brigham Hall

Residence Hall Tours: Creighton Hall

Residence Hall Tours: Rockefeller Hall

Residence Hall Tours: Safford Hall

Residence Hall Tours: Wilder Hall

Moscow Metro

The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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Moscow metro private tours.

• 2-hour tour $87:  10 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with hotel pick-up and drop-off
• 3-hour tour $137:  20 Must-See Moscow Metro stations with Russian lunch in beautifully-decorated Metro Diner + hotel pick-up and drop off. 
• Metro pass is included in the price of both tours.

Highlight of Metro Tour

• Visit 10 must-see stations of Moscow metro on 2-hr tour and 20 Metro stations on 3-hr tour, including grand Komsomolskaya station with its distinctive Baroque décor, aristocratic Mayakovskaya station with Soviet mosaics, legendary Revolution Square station with 72 bronze sculptures and more!
• Explore Museum of Moscow Metro and learn a ton of technical and historical facts;
• Listen to the secrets about the Metro-2, a secret line supposedly used by the government and KGB;
• Experience a selection of most striking features of Moscow Metro hidden from most tourists and even locals;
• Discover the underground treasure of Russian Soviet past – from mosaics to bronzes, paintings, marble arches, stained glass and even paleontological elements;
• Learn fun stories and myths about Coffee Ring, Zodiac signs of Moscow Metro and more;
• Admire Soviet-era architecture of pre- and post- World War II perious;
• Enjoy panoramic views of Sparrow Hills from Luzhniki Metro Bridge – MetroMost, the only station of Moscow Metro located over water and the highest station above ground level;
• If lucky, catch a unique «Aquarelle Train» – a wheeled picture gallery, brightly painted with images of peony, chrysanthemums, daisies, sunflowers and each car unit is unique;
• Become an expert at navigating the legendary Moscow Metro system;
• Have fun time with a very friendly local;
• + Atmospheric Metro lunch in Moscow’s the only Metro Diner (included in a 3-hr tour)

Hotel Pick-up

Metro stations:.

Komsomolskaya

Novoslobodskaya

Prospekt Mira

Belorusskaya

Mayakovskaya

Novokuznetskaya

Revolution Square

Sparrow Hills

+ for 3-hour tour

Victory Park

Slavic Boulevard

Vystavochnaya

Dostoevskaya

Elektrozavodskaya

Partizanskaya

Museum of Moscow Metro

• Drop-off  at your hotel, Novodevichy Convent, Sparrow Hills or any place you wish
• + Russian lunch  in Metro Diner with artistic metro-style interior for 3-hour tour

Fun facts from our Moscow Metro Tours:

From the very first days of its existence, the Moscow Metro was the object of civil defense, used as a bomb shelter, and designed as a defense for a possible attack on the Soviet Union.

At a depth of 50 to 120 meters lies the second, the coded system of Metro-2 of Moscow subway, which is equipped with everything you need, from food storage to the nuclear button.

According to some sources, the total length of Metro-2 reaches over 150 kilometers.

The Museum was opened on Sportivnaya metro station on November 6, 1967. It features the most interesting models of trains and stations.

Coffee Ring

The first scheme of Moscow Metro looked like a bunch of separate lines. Listen to a myth about Joseph Stalin and the main brown line of Moscow Metro.

Zodiac Metro

According to some astrologers, each of the 12 stops of the Moscow Ring Line corresponds to a particular sign of the zodiac and divides the city into astrological sector.

Astrologers believe that being in a particular zadiac sector of Moscow for a long time, you attract certain energy and events into your life.

Paleontological finds 

Red marble walls of some of the Metro stations hide in themselves petrified inhabitants of ancient seas. Try and find some!

• Every day each car in  Moscow metro passes  more than 600 km, which is the distance from Moscow to St. Petersburg.
• Moscow subway system is the  5th in the intensity  of use (after the subways of Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul and Shanghai).
• The interval in the movement of trains in rush hour is  90 seconds .

What you get:

• + A friend in Moscow.
• + Private & customized Moscow tour.
• + An exciting pastime, not just boring history lessons.
• + An authentic experience of local life.
• + Flexibility during the walking tour: changes can be made at any time to suit individual preferences.
• + Amazing deals for breakfast, lunch, and dinner in the very best cafes & restaurants. Discounts on weekdays (Mon-Fri).
• + A photo session amongst spectacular Moscow scenery that can be treasured for a lifetime.
• + Good value for souvenirs, taxis, and hotels.
• + Expert advice on what to do, where to go, and how to make the most of your time in Moscow.

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