Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Connecticut

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What is the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art?
- The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford is America's oldest continuously operating art museum.
- It was founded by arts patron Daniel Wadsworth in 1842 and paved the way for many major art museums in the country.
What are some of the museum’s notable firsts?
- It was the first American museum to acquire artworks by Caravaggio, Joseph Cornell, Frederic Church, Joan Miró, and Salvador Dalí.
- It was also the first in the country to showcase exhibits of important surveys of works by Surrealists, Picasso, and Italian Baroque masters.
How large is the museum’s collection?
- Today, the museum holds more than 50,000 works of art spanning over 5,000 years of human history.
What are some of the most important collections?
- The museum has major collections of Baroque and Surrealist paintings.
- It houses the Morgan collection of Roman and Greek antiquities and decorative arts from Europe.
- It also features 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

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

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