17 Best Museums in Boston
"When you walk into the renowned Harvard Art Museums—which became admission free in June 2023—you’re technically stepping into three museums at once: The Fogg Museum showcases Western art from the Middle Ages to the present day; the Busch-Reisinger Museum focuses on all modes and periods of art from northern and central Europe, with an emphasis on German-speaking countries; and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum features a collection of Asian, Islamic, and later Indian art. Once housed separately, the museums now peacefully coexist in the Fogg Museum building, which made its expanded and modernized debut in 2014, redesigned by Renzo Piano. Behind the beautiful brick facade, dating to 1927, the museums enclose a historic courtyard, now topped by a Piano-conceived pyramidal glass ceiling. The Italian architect’s impressive work for the institution re-endows it with a sense of the breadth and depth of the university’s footprint in the art world." - Elizabeth Wellington, Andrew Sessa
