The Museum's diverse collections of cultural artifacts offer residents and visitors a window on the wider world. Most of the collection came from Franklin Fairbanks's friends, family, and neighbors who traveled widely or spent extended periods in public or private service abroad. Many of these collections reveal cultures undergoing dramatic change during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The collections include tools, weapons, costumes and textiles, decorative arts, household objects, dolls, toys, trade goods, and archaeological artifacts from native America, Polynesia, Micronesia, Melanesia, the Philippines, Japan, China, southern and western Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East.

Please feel free to contact us to answer any questions you may have regarding the Museum's collections.