Editing Amherst, Massachusetts (section)

==Arts and culture==
===Points of interest===
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* Amherst Center Cultural District, formed in 2016.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.amherstdowntown.com/amherst-center-cultural-district/|title=Amherst Center Cultural District - Amherst Downtown Business Improvement District|work=Amherst Downtown Business Improvement District|access-date=2018-03-20|language=en-US|archive-date=2018-12-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181226231114/http://www.amherstdowntown.com/amherst-center-cultural-district/|url-status=dead}}</ref>
* [[Amherst Area Chamber of Commerce]]
* Amherst Cinema Arts Center: a local non-profit theater showing mostly arthouse and independent films<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://amherstcinema.org/about-us |title=About Us |publisher=Amherst Cinema |access-date=July 1, 2015}}</ref>
* Amherst History Museum, which opened in 1916 and is governed by the Amherst Historical Society<ref>{{Cite web |title=Amherst Historical Society {{!}} Connecting people to the town of Amherst, MA |url=https://amhersthistory.org/ |access-date=2023-10-18 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* [[Beneski Museum of Natural History]], including the [[Hitchcock Ichnological Cabinet]]
* [[Dickinson Homestead|Emily Dickinson Museum]], birthplace and lifelong residence of poet [[Emily Dickinson]], now a museum. 
* [[Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art]]
* [[Hitchcock Center for the Environment]], an environmental education center on the grounds of [[Hampshire College]] 
* [[Jones Library]] 
* [[Mead Art Museum]] at [[Amherst College]]: 18,000 items with a particular strength in American art
* [[W. E. B. Du Bois Library]] at the [[University of Massachusetts Amherst]]: the tallest academic library in the United States