Longyear Museum is dedicated to advancing the understanding of the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science. Its collection includes eight historic houses and thousands of artifacts that help to document her history and the early years of her church.
“The collection is what makes Longyear a museum,” says Executive Director Sandy Houston. “It provides a focus for our work. It’s the basis of our exhibits, our educational programs, our tours, and our publications. There are aspects of the collection that are unique to Longyear. For example, no other organization owns, cares for, and gives public tours of historic houses that Mary Baker Eddy lived in. The collection of letters, books, and other artifacts that belonged to the Baker family is also completely unique to Longyear, as is our collection of nearly 200 portraits of pioneer Christian Scientists.”
Mary Beecher Longyear began the collection more than a century ago to ensure that the story of the Discoverer of Christian Science could be told to the public for generations to come.
Click on the thumbnails below and scroll through to see larger images. For more on the Longyear collection, see “Safeguarding the Evidence.”
