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.
Winchester Cultural District
Winchester
Griffin Museum of Photography
Winchester
A nonprofit organization dedicated solely to the art of photography. Through our many exhibitions, programs and lectures, we strive to... more
Lee Gallery
Winchester
Founded in 1981 by Mack Lee, the Lee Gallery maintains an inventory of 19th and 20th century vintage photographs with three... more
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Winchester Cultural District
15 High St
Winchester
(781) 729-8870 - B
Griffin Museum of Photography
67 Shore Rd.
Winchester
781-729-1158 - C
Lee Gallery
9 Mount Vernon St.
Winchester