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600 Main St Hartford, CT 06103
Hartford, CT
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monday
closed
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tuesday
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wednesday
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thrusday
12:00pm-5:00pm
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friday
12:00pm-5:00pm
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saturday
12:00pm-5:00pm
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sunday
12:00pm-5:00pm
About Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art
Specialties: The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States. The museum's nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years, from Greek and Roman antiquities to the first museum collection of American contemporary art.
Highlights include the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned B...
Specialties: The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art is the oldest continually operating public art museum in the United States. The museum's nearly 50,000 works of art span 5,000 years, from Greek and Roman antiquities to the first museum collection of American contemporary art.
Highlights include the Morgan collection of Greek and Roman antiquities and European decorative arts; world-renowned Baroque and Surrealist paintings; an unsurpassed collection of Hudson River School landscapes; European and American Impressionist paintings; Modernist masterpieces; the Serge Lifar collecton of Ballets Russes drawings and costumes; the George A. Gay collection of prints; the Wallace Nutting collection of American colonial furniture and decorative arts; the Samuel Colt firearms collection; costumes and textiles; African American art and artifacts; and contemporary art. Established in 1842. The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art was founded in 1842 by Daniel Wadsworth, one of the first major American art patrons. Since opening its doors to the public in 1844, the museum has paved the way for encyclopedic museums across the country, and has a rich legacy of firsts. It was the first museum in America to purchase works by Caravaggio, Frederic Church, Joseph Cornell, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, and was the first to exhibit major surveys of works by Italian Baroque masters, Surrealists, and Picasso. Progressing Wadsworth's vision, the museum's collection has grown to hold approximately 50,000 works of art that span 5,000 years.
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