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.
Edward Gorey House
Yarmouth Port
The Edward Gorey House preserves the legacy of Gorey's whimsically macabre books and illustration and highlights his love and care... more
Fresh Paint Gallery
Yarmouthport
A Fine Art Gallery featuring Oil, Watercolor, Monotype Printmaking, Mixed Media, Pen & Ink and Acrylic painting done by award... more
Laurel Wilson Watercolors
Yarmouth Port
Realistic watercolor paintings of Cape Cod and New England by well-known Cape Cod artist, Laurel Wilson. Original paintings, as well... more
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Winslow Crocker House, A Historic New England Property
250 Main Street (route 6a)
Old King's Highway
Yarmouth Port
617-994-6661 - B
Edward Gorey House
8 Strawberry Lane
Yarmouth Port
508-362-3909 - C
Fresh Paint Gallery
169 Route 6a
Yarmouthport
1-508-375-9220 - D
Laurel Wilson Watercolors
14 Elisha's Pond Drive
Yarmouth Port
508-362-2270