Arkell Museum

Visit the Arkell Museum

The Arkell Museum is one of the most beloved attractions in Cooperstown, NY, Bartlett Arkell, the founder and the first president of the Beech-Nut Packing Company built the original Canajoharie Gallery in 1927. A beautiful expansion was made to the museum in 2007 to provide inspiring new space for exhibitions and programs. Most of the paintings in the permanent collection were purchased by Bartlett Arkell for the people of Canajoharie. The American painting collection includes 21 works by Winslow Homer, and significant paintings by many distinguished artists, including George Inness, William M. Chase, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, and Georgia O’Keeffe. Permanent and changing exhibitions also feature selections from the museum’s Mohawk Valley History collection as well as the Beech-Nut archives of early twentieth-century advertising material.