The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts.
It is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. It easily acce...
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The Wadsworth Atheneum is the oldest public art museum in the United States, with significant holdings of French and American Impressionist paintings, Hudson River School landscapes, modernist masterpieces and contemporary works, as well as extensive holdings in early American furniture and decorative arts.
It is located at 600 Main Street in a distinctive castle-like building in downtown Hartford, Connecticut, the state's capital. It easily accessible from I-91 and I-84, as well as by train. With 196,000 square feet (18,200 m), the museum is the largest art museum in the state of Connecticut.
Susan Lubowsky Talbott, previously director of Smithsonian Arts at the Smithsonian Institution, became museum director on May 1st, 2008 She stated that one of her top goals would be to attract visitors "who would never have otherwise thought of coming here." She previously had been director of Smithsonian Arts at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. for three years, where she was...
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