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Fogg Art Museum Description

The Fogg Art Museum is Harvard's oldest art museum, it opened in 1895. The museum was endowed by Elizabeth Fogg in memory of her husband. Fogg Art Museum moved to its Italian Renaissance-style building on the Harvard University campus in 1927.

The collection at the museum is composed of European and American sculpture, painting, drawings, photographs and decorative arts from the Middle Ages to the present. The Wertheim Collection is housed on the second floor of the Fogg Museum. It contacins Impressionist and post-Impressionist work, with many famous masterworks.

The Fogg Art Museum is also home to the Straus Center for Conservation, the oldest research center for the scientific study of works of art in the United States

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Hobbies & Activities category: Paintings, art collections; Gold, silver, metalworking exhibit; Major world-scale museum; Oriental art

Address

Harvard University Art Museums
32 Quincy Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
Phone 1 (617) 495-9400

http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu

Hours



Open	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	10:00	13:00
Closed	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00	17:00

Always closed on:
New Year's Day (January 1) Martin Luther King's Birthday - USA (3rd Monday, January) President's Day - USA (3rd Monday, February) Memorial Day - USA (Last Monday, May) American Independance Day (July 4) Veteran's Day - USA (November 11) Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November) Christmas - Christian (December 25) Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24) New Year's Eve (December 31)