During their long careers at Mount Holyoke College, both Prof. Shattuck and Prof. Clapp helped establish experiential learning as a major tenet of Mount Holyoke College’s mission in many ways, including through the use of microscopes and natural specimens.

In addition to historical and contemporary teaching microscopes, the Science Center houses several Natural History Collections. These Collections demonstrate the long history of Mount Holyoke as an important institution in the education of women scientists.

Join Science Center staff and experience the joy of scientific discovery using a variety of microscopes to view a large selection of objects from our Collections.