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Currier Museum of Art
Photo courtesy of
Currier (Jan Gossaert, Self Portrait, 1515-1520) .
Just an hour from the Seacoast, the Currier Museum of Art is an internationally renowned art museum featuring European and American paintings, decorative arts and sculptures...all in a classic setting. Visitors to the Museum can view master works by the greatest artists in history with paintings by Pablo Picasso, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth, and with sculpture by Henri Matisse, Frederic Remington and Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The museum has an excellent collection of American Impressionist paintings including works by Edmund Tarbell and Childe Hassam, and is well represented with contemporary works by Josef Albers, Adolph Gottlieb and Alexander Calder. American decorative arts at the Currier include fine examples of 18th and 19th century New England Glass Works. The Currier is home to one of the country's finest collections of glass paperweights, the Henry Melville Fuller collections, which includes rare pieces from the historic French glass houses of Baccarat, Clichy and St. Louis.
HOURS: See web site for hours, Closed Tuesdays
WEBSITE: http://currier.org
ADMISSION: Free for nembers, $5 adults, $4 seniors & students, Under 18 Free, Free admission to all: Saturday 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
PHONE: (603) 669-6144
ADDRESS: 201 Myrtle Way, Manchester, NH 03104 Manchester, NH 03802
DIRECTIONS: I-293, take Exit 6-Amoskeag Bridge, bearing right to cross bridge, following signs for US Route 3 and Business District to Elm Street. At traffic light, cross Elm and go 0.4 miles to Beech St. Turn right onto Beech, the Currier will be 1/2 mile on the left.
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