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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New Bedford
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Lincoln
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Boston
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Nantucket
Hamill Gallery of African Art
Boston
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Gloucester
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Pittsfield
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Cambridge
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Cambridge
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Cambridge
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Brewster
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Sandwich
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Lenox
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Falmouth
Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour
Cummington
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Deerfield
Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
Amherst
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Gallery X
169 William Street
New Bedford
508-992-2675 - B
Giclee of New England, Inc
1240 Park Street
Palmer
413-284-4344 - C
Gold Gallery
655 Tremont St.
Boston
8572398972 - D
Greater Light
8 Howard St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - E
Gropius House
68 Baker Bridge Rd.
Lincoln
781-259-8098 - F
The Guild of Boston Artists
162 Newbury Street
Boston
617-536-7660 - G
Hadwen House
96 Main St.
Nantucket
508-228-1894 - H
Hamill Gallery of African Art
2164 Washington Street
Boston
617-442-8204 - I
Hammond Castle Museum
80 Hesperus Avenue
Gloucester
978-283-2080 - J
Hancock Shaker Village
1843 W Housatonic St. (routes 20 & 41)
Po Box 927
Pittsfield
413-443-0188 - K
Harvard Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge
617-495-9400 - L
Harvard Museum of Natural History
26 Oxford Street
Cambridge
617-495-3045 - M
Harvard Museum of the Ancient Near East
6 Divinity Avenue
Cambridge
1-617-495-4631 - N
Heart Pottery
1145 Main Street
Brewster
508-896-6189 - O
Heritage Museums & Gardens
67 Grove Street
Sandwich
508-888-3300 - P
HG October Mountain Estate
430 East Street
Box 2282
Lenox
8662645139 - Q
Highfield Hall & Gardens
56 Highfield Dr
Falmouth
508-495-1878 - R
Hilltown 6 Pottery Tour
108 Mount Road
Cummington
4132000494 - S
Historic Deerfield
80 Old Main St.
(off Rts. 5 And 10)
Deerfield
413-775-7214 - T
Hope & Feathers Framing and Gallery
319 Main Street
Amherst
4138350197