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.
Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
Waltham
Rose Art Museum
Waltham
Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate
Waltham
Lincoln Arts Gallery
Waltham
Contemporary art gallery on thriving Moody Street in downtown Waltham. more
Waltham Mills Artists Association
Waltham
WMAA artists work in a wide range of media, including sculpture, glass, drawing, printmaking, painting, textiles, photography, woodworking, film and... more
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Charles River Museum of Industry & Innovation
154 Moody Street
Waltham
781-893-5410 - B
Rose Art Museum
415 Street
415 South Street
Waltham
781-736-3434 - C
Stonehurst, the Robert Treat Paine Estate
100 Robert Treat Paine Dr.
Waltham
781-314-3290 - D
Lincoln Arts Gallery
289 Moody Street
Waltham
781-209-0058 - E
Waltham Mills Artists Association
144 Moody St.
Waltham
718-986-8996