Massachusetts has a rich heritage of making and collecting art on display across the state in museums of all kinds.
The world-renowned Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has an encyclopedic collection that ranges from French Impressionists to ancient Egyptian art. The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) showcases contemporary art in its striking new building overlooking Boston Harbor. Across the Charles River in Cambridge, the Harvard Art Museums are home to works by Matisse, Picasso and Italian Renaissance masters in intimate galleries. And traveling north of metro Boston, Salem’s Peabody Essex Museum exhibits connections between art, architecture and culture.
Large-scale American sculpture is sited throughout the 35 acres of the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park in Lincoln. Worcester’s Art Museum, acknowledged as one of America’s leading small art museums, includes works by Cassatt, Gauguin, Goya, Monet, Sargent and Whistler. In Western Massachusetts, the Norman Rockwell Museum houses the largest collection of the illustrator’s original art, many from the Saturday Evening Post. Fuller Craft Museum is one of eight museums in the country specializing in contemporary craft.
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Botanic Garden of Smith College
Northampton
Brush Art Gallery & Studios
Lowell
Brush It Off
Sturbridge (fiskdale)
Buttonwoods Museum
Haverhill
By the Bay Shows
Brewster
Cahoon Museum of American Art
Cotuit
Cape Ann Designs, Sea Glass Jewelry & Accessories
Gloucester
Cape Ann Museum
Gloucester
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Dennis
Cape Kaleidoscopes
Mashpee
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
Ipswich
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
Allston
Charles Fine Arts
Gloucester
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Waltham
Chelsea Art Walk
Chelsea
Chesterwood A Nation Trust Historic Site
Glendale
The Christina Gallery
Edgartown
Church of the Transfiguration
Orleans
The Clark
Williamstown
The Clock Tower Gallery
Winthrop
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Botanic Garden of Smith College
16 College Lane
Lyman Plant House, Smith College
Northampton
413-585-2740 - B
Brush Art Gallery & Studios
256 Market St
Lowell
978-459-7819 - C
Brush It Off
559 Main St., Rt. 20
P.o. Box 173
Sturbridge (fiskdale)
774-241-3444 - D
Buttonwoods Museum
240 Water St
Haverhill
9783744626 - E
By the Bay Shows
2271 Main St
Brewster
7742077179 - F
Cahoon Museum of American Art
4676 Falmouth Road
Po Box 1853
Cotuit
5084287581 - G
Cape Ann Designs, Sea Glass Jewelry & Accessories
44 Thurston Pt. Rd. (by Appointment)
Gloucester
978-283-8333 - H
Cape Ann Museum
27 Pleasant St
Gloucester
9782830455 - I
Cape Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane
Dennis
508-385-4477 - J
Cape Kaleidoscopes
3 Central Square, P.o. Box 518
Mashpee Commons
Mashpee
877-319-0661 - K
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
290 Argilla Rd.
Ipswich
978.356.4351 - L
Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard
224 Western Ave
Allston
617.495.8680 - M
Charles Fine Arts
196 Main Street
Gloucester
978-559-7762 - N
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
154 Moody Street
Waltham
781-893-5410 - O
Chelsea Art Walk
100 Pearl St
Chelsea
617-875-3188 - P
Chesterwood A Nation Trust Historic Site
4 Williamsville Road
Glendale
413-298-3579 - Q
The Christina Gallery
5 Winter Street
Edgartown
508-627-8794 - R
Church of the Transfiguration
5 Bay View Drive
Orleans
5082551094 - S
The Clark
225 South St.
Williamstown
413-458-2303 - T
The Clock Tower Gallery
45 Pauline St.
Winthrop
617-721-4162