Mercer_Museum

**THE MERCER MUSEUM**









Henry Mercer
 



 * **Dr. Henry C. Mercer was an anthropologist, antiquarian, artist, writer, tile-maker, and leader in the turn-of-the-century Arts and Crafts movement**
 * **Antiquarian means studying antiques**
 * **Born July 24, 1856**
 * ===Died 1930 ===
 * ===Lived in Doylestown all his life. ===
 * ===Educa ted at Harvard and the University of Penn. ===
 * The Mercer Museum is known  **as the museum with the most extensive collections of artifacts associated with pre-1850 American ways of life**
 * <span style="color: rgb(225, 9, 9); font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">**Henry Mercer had interest in pre-industrial tools**
 * <span style="color: rgb(225, 9, 9); font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">**The Museum also has artifacts from Native American, West Africa, China and Southeast Asia.**
 * <span style="color: rgb(225, 9, 9); font-size: 16px; line-height: 23px;">**There are more than 40,000 tools and artifacts in the museum**