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.
The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
Springfield
Art for the Soul Art Gallery
Springfield
Artists Square Group Gallery
Springfield
Iconic Illustrator's Trail
Springfield
Springfield Museums
Springfield
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
Springfield
Outstanding collection of Oriental arms and Middle Eastern rugs, Chinese cloisonne, and Asian decorative arts; 19th-century American paintings; sculpture cast... more
Museum of Fine Arts
Springfield
American art from the 18th to 20th centuries; European paintings from the 14th to 20th centuries. Works by Winslow Homer,... more
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The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum
21 Edwards St.
Springfield
800-625-7738 - B
Art for the Soul Art Gallery
1500 Main Street, Floor 2
Tower Square
Springfield
413-301-6314 - C
Artists Square Group Gallery
1500 Main Street
Springfield
413-301-6314 - D
Iconic Illustrator's Trail
21 Edwards St.
Springfield
413-263-6800 - E
Springfield Museums
21 Edwards St.
Springfield
413-263-6800 - F
George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum
Springfield Museums At The Quadrangle
At The Quadrangle, 21 Edwards St.
Springfield
800-625-7738 - G
Museum of Fine Arts
At The Quadrangle, 21 Edwards St.
Springfield
800-625-7738