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.
Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
Ipswich
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Ipswich Museum
Ipswich
Great Marsh Studios
Ipswich
Great Marsh Studios in Ipswich, Ma is a clay studio and gallery that features beautiful handmade pottery and sculpture made... more
Ipswich Arts
Ipswich
Profiles and information on all facets of the Ipswich art scene. Includes information on local artists and artisans, classes and... more
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Castle Hill on the Crane Estate
290 Argilla Rd.
Ipswich
978.356.4351 - B
Ipswich Museum
54 South Main St.
Ipswich
978-356-2811 - C
Ipswich Museum
54 S. Main St.
Ipswich
9783562811 - D
Great Marsh Studios
43 Jeffreys Neck Rd
Ipswich
978-771-6467 - E
Ipswich Arts
Ipswich
978-356-4664