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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Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
Amherst
Melody Phaneuf Paintings
Gloucester
Memento Cape Cod
Orleans
MIT Museum
Cambridge
Mobilia Gallery
Cambridge
Museum of African American History
Boston
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
Canton
Museum of Bad Art
Somerville
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
Greenfield
Museum of Science
Boston
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
Boston
The Museum Shop at WAM
Worcester
My Art Boston
Jamaica Plain
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
Nantucket
Nantucket Whaling Museum
Nantucket
New Bedford Art Museum
New Bedford
New Bedford Free Public Library
New Bedford
New Bedford Whaling Museum
New Bedford
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
Boylston
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Mead Art Museum at Amherst College
41 Quadrangle Drive
Amherst
413-542-2335 - B
Melody Phaneuf Paintings
3 Centennial Ave
Gloucester
617 236 4322 - C
Memento Cape Cod
57 Route 6a
Orleans
5082551187 - D
MIT Museum
Building N51
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
617-253-5927 - E
Mobilia Gallery
358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge
617-876-2109 - F
Museum of African American History
46 Joy Street, Boston
29 York Street, Nantucket
Boston
6177250022 x222 - G
Museum of American Bird Art at Mass Audubon
963 Washington St.
Canton
781-821-8853 - H
Museum of Bad Art
Somerville Theater
55 Davis Square
Somerville
781.444.6757 - I
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston
617-267-9300 - J
Museum of Our Industrial Heritage
2 Mead Street
Greenfield
413-336-8275 - K
Museum of Science
1 Science Park
Boston
617-723-2500 - L
Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists
300 Walnut Ave.
Boston
617-442-8614 - M
The Museum Shop at WAM
55 Salisbury Street
Worcester
508-799-4355 - N
My Art Boston
865 Centre St.
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Jamaica Plain
6178936337 - O
Nantucket Lightship Basket Museum
49 Union Street
Nantucket
5082281177 - P
Nantucket Whaling Museum
13 Broad St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - Q
New Bedford Art Museum
608 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
5089613072 - R
New Bedford Free Public Library
613 Pleasant Street
New Bedford
(508) 991-6275 - S
New Bedford Whaling Museum
18 Johnny Cake Hill
New Bedford
508-997-0046 - T
New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill
11 French Drive
Boylston
508-869-6111