The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has many world-class museums. Here is a list alphabetically by city or town. We hope this is a comprehensive list – please let us know if there are any additions.
- Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, Amherst
- Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst
- Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, Amherst
- University Museum of Contemporary Art, Amherst
- Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover
- Cyrus E. Dallin Art Museum, Arlington
- Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro
- MassArt Art Museum, Boston
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
- Boston Athenaeum, Boston
- Boston University Art Gallery, Boston
- Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
- Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston
- Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton
- Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge
- MIT Museum, Cambridge
- MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
- Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University, Cambridge
- McMullen Museum of Art at Boston College, Chestnut Hill
- Museum of Russian Icons, Clinton
- Cahoon Museum of American Art, Cotuit
- Cape Cod Museum of Art, Dennis
- The Art Complex Museum, Duxbury
- Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg
- Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham
- Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester
- Fruitlands Museum, Harvard
- National Heritage Museum, Lexington
- DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln
- New England Quilt Museum, Lowell
- Whistler House Museum Of Art, Lowell
- Tufts University Gallery, Medford
- New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford
- Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton
- Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield
- Pilgrim Hall Museum, Plymouth
- Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown
- Peabody Essex Museum, Salem
- Heritage Museums and Gardens, Sandwich
- Sandwich Glass Museum, Sandwich
- Museum of Bad Art, Somerville
- Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley
- The Springfield Museums at the Quadrangle, Springfield
- Norman Rockwell Museum, Stockbridge
- Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University, Waltham
- Davis Museum at Wellesley College, Wellesley
- Clark Art Institute, Williamstown
- Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown
- Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester
- Worcester Art Museum, Worcester