Cambridge - Fogg Art Museum

 
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.

Must-see attractions nearby:
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.
Hours:
10am-5pm; Closed: Sun, Mon
Always closed on: Labor Day - USA (1st Monday, September), Columbus Day - USA (2nd Monday, October ), Thanksgiving - USA (4th Thursday, November ), Veteran's Day - USA (November 11), Christmas - Christian (December 25), New Year's Eve (December 31), Christmas Eve - Christian (December 24)
Facilities: Gift shop
Transit: T: Harvard Square

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