The Hill-Stead Museum in Connecticut features iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope's collection of French Impressionist masterpieces. You can also see works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt and Édouard Manet.
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The Hill-Stead Museum in Connecticut features iron industrialist Alfred A. Pope's collection of French Impressionist masterpieces. You can also see works by Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Mary Cassatt and Édouard Manet.
Courtesy of Hill-Stead Museum
The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Mississippi is an unlikely avant-garde museum in a Gulf Coast beach town known for its casinos and sunshine. Nineteenth-century ceramicist George Ohr was an eccentric who called himself the Mad Potter of Biloxi.
Ohr-O'Keefe Museum, Mississippi —
The Ohr-O'Keefe Museum in Mississippi is an unlikely avant-garde museum in a Gulf Coast beach town known for its casinos and sunshine. Nineteenth-century ceramicist George Ohr was an eccentric who called himself the Mad Potter of Biloxi.
Courtesy of Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art
Admire Gutenberg Bible from the 1450s and an illuminated manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the collection of the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.
The Huntington Art Gallery, California —
Admire Gutenberg Bible from the 1450s and an illuminated manuscript of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the collection of the Huntington Art Gallery in San Marino, California.
Alexander Vertikoff
Michigan State University's new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is the first-ever university building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.
Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan —
Michigan State University's new Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum is the first-ever university building designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Zaha Hadid.
Photo by Paul Warchol
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York features American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and other artists who have called this place home.
Parrish Art Museum, New York —
The Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York features American Impressionist William Merritt Chase and other artists who have called this place home.
Hufton + Crow
Sugar heiress Electra Havemeyer Webb collected Hudson River School landscapes, quirky folk art, circus posters and other art and created the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont to display her collection.
Shelburne Museum, Vermont —
Sugar heiress Electra Havemeyer Webb collected Hudson River School landscapes, quirky folk art, circus posters and other art and created the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont to display her collection.
Shelburne Museum
Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and the Dia Foundation transformed a decommissioned army base into a 340-acre arts compound two hundred miles from the nearest airport.
Chinati Foundation, Texas —
Minimalist sculptor Donald Judd and the Dia Foundation transformed a decommissioned army base into a 340-acre arts compound two hundred miles from the nearest airport.
Florian Holzherr/Courtesy of the Chinati Foundation/Artists Rights Society
Take the ferry to the new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington state. It features a lovely regional collection of contemporary fine arts and crafts.
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Washington —
Take the ferry to the new Bainbridge Island Museum of Art in Washington state. It features a lovely regional collection of contemporary fine arts and crafts.
Art Grice
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas is the brainchild of Walmart heir Alice Walton, who has collected centuries of American art and now displays it in the same town where Sam Walton opened his first five and dime.
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Arkansas —
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas is the brainchild of Walmart heir Alice Walton, who has collected centuries of American art and now displays it in the same town where Sam Walton opened his first five and dime.
Timothy Hursley/Courtesy of Crystal Bridges Museum of American Ar
Mass MoCA's 13-acre campus is made of up of repurposed 19th-century brick buildings that now feature raw space for larger-than-life installations in visual, music, dance, film and theater arts.
Mass MoCA, Massachusetts —
Mass MoCA's 13-acre campus is made of up of repurposed 19th-century brick buildings that now feature raw space for larger-than-life installations in visual, music, dance, film and theater arts.
Zoran Orlić