Art Museums and Galleries

Locations for the exhibition of art, primarily paintings and sculpture

Akron Art Museum Akron, Summit County, Ohio 44308 The museum first opened its doors on February 1, 1922 as the Akron Art Institute. It was located in two borrowed rooms in the basement of the public library. After 1965, the institute was transformed from a school and art center into a museum.

Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Bethel, Conneticut

Alexandria Museum of Art Alexandria, Louisiana

Amarillo Museum of Art Amarillo, Texas

American Visionary Art Museum Baltimore, MaryLand 21230 The 35,000-square-foot main building of the museum combines an elliptical, three-story, historic industrial building with extensive new architecture. There is also a Tall Sculpture Barn, a former whiskey warehouse with 45-foot ceilings.

Anglo-American Art Museum Baton Rouge, Louisiana

Aroostook County Historical and Art Museum Houlton, Maine

Art Gonzales Museum Conejo, California

Art Museum of South Texas Corpus Christi, Texas

Art Museum of Southeast Texas Beaumont, Texas

Art Museum of the Americas Washington, D.C. (District of Columbia)

Artesia Historical Museum and Art Center Artesia, New Mexico

Atlanta Cyclorama and Civil War Museum Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia The painting that makes up the cyclorama is the largest oil painting in the world. If it were flattened, it would measure 42 feet high by 358 feet long.

Austin Museum of Art Austin, Texas

Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MaryLand 21218 This historic building was designed in the 1920s by renowned American architect John Russell Pope. A massive wing for contemporary art was added in 1994.

Bass Museum of Art Miami, Florida

Bates College Museum of Art Lewiston, Maine

Beeville Art Museum Beeville, Texas

Bergen Museum of Art and Science Hackensack, New Jersey

Birmingham Museum of Art Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama 35203 This is the largest municipal art museum in the southern United States. It houses a nationally-recognized permanent collection of more than 15,000 works of art dating from ancient to modern times, featuring paintings, drawings, and decorative arts.