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The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, America's oldest continuously-operating art museum, was founded by arts patron Daniel Wadsworth in 1842 and has since then paved the path for the many major art museums in the country.

It was the first American museum to acquire artworks by Caravaggio, Joseph Cornell, Frederic Church, Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí, and also the first in the country to showcase exhibits of important surveys of works by Surrealists, Picasso and Italian Baroque masters.

The museum today holds more than 50,000 works of art covering more 5,000 years of human history. Some of the most important collections include major Baroque and Surrealist paintings; the Morgan collection of Roman and Greek antiquities and decorative arts from Europe; and one of the world's best collections of Hudson River School landscapes.

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main St, Hartford, Connecticut 06103, Phone: 860-278-2670, Facebook

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