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Art Museums

the work of the great American
landscape painters, including
Winslow Homer, Fitz Henry Lane,
and Marsden Hartley.
Worcester Art Museum,
4
MA
MAP E3 • 55 Salisbury St • 508 799
4406 • Open 11am–5pm Wed–Fri,
Sun, 10am–5pm Sat • Adm
• www.worcesterart.org
Striking Roman mosaics, arms and
armor, and a top collection of pre-
Columbian art from Mexico and
Central America are the highlights
at this small general art museum.
Currier Museum of Art,
5
Manchester, NH
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum MAP M6 • 150 Ash St • 603 669 6144
• Open 11am–5pm Sun–Mon,
Isabella Stewart Gardner
1 Wed–Fri, 10am–5pm Sat • Adm
Museum, Boston, MA
• www.currier.org
MAP S6 • 25 Evans Way • 617 566 In addition to its emphasis on
1401 • Open 11am–5pm Wed, Fri– 19th-century painting, the Currier
Mon, 11am–9pm Thu • Adm Museum’s collection embraces
• www.gardnermuseum.org dynamic contemporary art as well.
One of the all-time great private
Museum of Fine Arts,
collectors, Gardner built this lovely 6
Renaissance-style palace to display Boston, MA
her 2,500-object collection. MAP S6 • 465 Huntington Ave • 617
267 9300 • Open 10am–5pm Mon–
Mass MoCA, North
2 Tue, Sat–Sun, 10am–10pm Wed–Fri
Adams, MA
• Adm • www.mfa.org
MAP B2 • 1040 Mass MoCA Way • 413 Highlights at Boston’s world-class
662 2111 • Open late Jun–Labor Day: Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) include
10am–6pm Sun–Wed (to 7pm Thu– major holdings of Asian, Egyptian,
Sat); Sep–late Jun: 11am–5pm Wed– and Nubian art. It also has the
Mon • Adm • www.massmoca.org most important Monet collection
The Mass MoCA museum focuses outside of Paris.
on new work by living artists, and
also stages dance, avant-garde
theater, and performance art.
Portland Museum of Art,
3
Portland, ME
MAP N4 • 7 Congress Sq • 207 775
6148 • Open 10am–5pm Tue–Sun
(to 9pm Fri); 10am–5pm Mon
(end May–mid-Oct) • Adm
• www.portlandmuseum.org
A visit to Maine’s largest art museum
is rewarded by the chance to admire Homer’s The Blue Boat at Boston’s MFA

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