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.
Adam's Nest
Provincetown
Addison Art Gallery
Orleans
Aries East Gallery
Brewster
Bobby Baker Gallery
Cataumet
By the Bay Shows
Brewster
Cahoon Museum of American Art
Cotuit
Cape Cod Museum of Art
Dennis
Cape Kaleidoscopes
Mashpee
The Christina Gallery
Edgartown
Church of the Transfiguration
Orleans
Cross Rip Gallery
Harwich Port
Cross Rip Gallery
Harwich
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
South Yarmouth
The Field Gallery
West Tisbury
Fritz Glass
Dennis Port
The Galleries at 820 Main
Harwich Port
A gallery
Provincetown
The Gallery at Tree's Place
Orleans
Greater Light
Nantucket
Hadwen House
Nantucket
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Adam's Nest
379a Commercial Street
Provincetown
5084876600 - B
Addison Art Gallery
43 South Orleans Road (route 28)
Box 2756
Orleans
508-255-6200 - C
Aries East Gallery
2805 Main St.
P O Box 1124
Brewster
508 896-7681 - D
Bobby Baker Gallery
1403 Route 28a
Cataumet
508-566-8922 - 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 Cod Museum of Art
60 Hope Lane
Dennis
508-385-4477 - H
Cape Kaleidoscopes
3 Central Square, P.o. Box 518
Mashpee Commons
Mashpee
877-319-0661 - I
The Christina Gallery
5 Winter Street
Edgartown
508-627-8794 - J
Church of the Transfiguration
5 Bay View Drive
Orleans
5082551094 - K
Cross Rip Gallery
486 Route 28
Harwich Port
(508)432-1130 - L
Cross Rip Gallery
204 Sisson Rd
Harwich
5084321130 - M
Cultural Center of Cape Cod
307 Old Main St.
South Yarmouth
508-394-7100 - N
The Field Gallery
1050 State Road
West Tisbury
1-508-693-5595 - O
Fritz Glass
36 Upper County Road
P.o. Box 249
Dennis Port
508-394-0441 - P
The Galleries at 820 Main
820 Main St/ Rt 28
Harwich Port
508-430-7622 - Q
A gallery
192 Commercial Street
Provincetown
508-274-8298 - R
The Gallery at Tree's Place
60 Route 6a
60 Cranberry Highway
Orleans
5082551330 - S
Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - T
Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894