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.
Adolphus Busch Hall
Cambridge
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
Cambridge
Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
Cambridge
Harvard Art Museums
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of Natural History
Cambridge
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
Cambridge
Imagine: A Center for Community & the Arts
Cambridge
MIT Museum
Cambridge
Mobilia Gallery
Cambridge
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
Cambridge
FROM RUSSIA WITH ART Gallery
Cambridge
From Russia With Art gallery in Cambridge, near Porter Sq. is a unique place that features original etchings, paintings and... more
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
Cambridge
The Harvard Museums of Science & Culture (HMSC) is a partnership of four Harvard museums; Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments,... more
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
Cambridge
Le Laboratoire Cambridge is a unique art and design center that invites visitors to explore the experiments and wonders of... more
List Visual Arts Center, MIT
Cambridge
Exhibitions explore challenging, intellectual contemporary art making in all media: painting, sculpture, photography, video, installation, and architecture/design. Map available... more
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Cambridge
Established in 1985, the List Visual Arts Center is the contemporary art gallery of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. more
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Adolphus Busch Hall
29 Kirkland Street
Cambridge
617-495-9400 - B
Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments
1 Oxford St
Cambridge
1-617-495-2779 - C
Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African American Art
102 Mount Auburn St.
Cambridge
617-496-5777 - D
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge
617-495-9400 - E
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - F
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
1-617-495-4631 - G
Imagine: A Center for Community & the Arts
23 Bay State Road
Cambridge
617-661-0077 - H
MIT Museum
Building N51
265 Massachusetts Ave.
Cambridge
617-253-5927 - I
Mobilia Gallery
358 Huron Avenue
Cambridge
617-876-2109 - J
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University
11 Divinity Ave.
Cambridge
617-496-1027 - K
FROM RUSSIA WITH ART Gallery
1977 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge
617 354 2930 - L
Harvard Museums of Science & Culture
20 Oxford St.
Cambridge
617-496-1638 - M
Le Laboratoire Cambridge
650 East Kendall Street
Cambridge
617-945-7515 - N
List Visual Arts Center, MIT
20 Ames St.
E15-109
Cambridge
617-253-4680 - O
MIT List Visual Arts Center
Mit List Visual Arts Center
20 Ames St.
Cambridge
[617] 253-4680