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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Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
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The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
Amherst
FOLCWALD Gallery of Sculptural Art
Amherst
Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
Amherst
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Amherst
UMass Fine Arts Center
Amherst
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Amherst
Yiddish Book Center
Amherst
Museums 10
Amherst
In the heart of western Massachusetts, Museums10 is a dynamic collaborative of 10 museums that inspire, engage and enrich their communities... more
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Amherst Business Improvement District
35 South Pleasant Street
Amherst
413-345-2945 - B
Beneski Museum of Natural History @ Amherst College
11 Barrett Hill Drive
Box 5000
Amherst
413-542-5054 - C
The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art
125 West Bay Rd.
Amherst
413-658-1100 - D
FOLCWALD Gallery of Sculptural Art
236 North Pleasant Street
Studio 101
Amherst
4133675303 - E
Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
319 Main Street
Amherst
4138350197 - F
Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
41 Quadrangle Drive
Amherst
413-542-2335 - G
UMass Fine Arts Center
151 Presidents Drive
Amherst
800-999-UMAS - H
University Museum of Contemporary Art
Fine Arts Center / Umass Amherst
151 Presidents Drive
Amherst
413-545-3672 - I
Yiddish Book Center
1021 West St.
Amherst
413-256-4900 - J
Museums 10
97 Spring Street
Amherst
413.542.4015