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.
Berkshire Museum
Pittsfield
Hancock Shaker Village
Pittsfield
Pop Up Art Gallery
Pittsfield
Artscape
Pittsfield
Ongoing outdoor gallery that changes each year. more
Berkshire Artisans/Lichenstein Center for the Arts
Pittsfield
Municipal arts center; galleries, workshops, public mural program. more
NUarts Artist Studios & Gallery
Pittsfield
NUarts is a group of 20 artists who share a floor of studio spaces in an office building in the Upstreet... more
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Berkshire Museum
39 South St (route 7)
Pittsfield
413-443-7171 - B
Hancock Shaker Village
1843 W Housatonic St. (routes 20 & 41)
Po Box 927
Pittsfield
413-443-0188 - C
Pop Up Art Gallery
25 Union Street
Pittsfield
413-841-1659 - D
Artscape
Lichtenstein Center For The Arts
28 Renne Avenue
Pittsfield
413-499-9348 - E
Berkshire Artisans/Lichenstein Center for the Arts
28 Renne Ave.
Pittsfield
413-499-9348 - F
NUarts Artist Studios & Gallery
311 North Street
2nd Floor
Pittsfield
617 750-5003