Located in downtown Portland in the area known as the Arts District, the Portland Museum of Art is the oldest and largest public art institution in Maine. Founded in 1882 as the Portland Society of Art, the museum moved to its current location, the McLellan House, in 1908. After extensive renovation, the museum was opened in 1911. Since then, the scope and size of the museum’s exhibitions have significantly expanded.

Today, the museum holds over 18,000 artworks from the 18th century to the present, featuring artists such as Winslow Homer, John Marin, Marsden Hartley, Louise Nevelson, John Greenleaf Cloudman, and Andrew Wyeth. The museum’s European collection is the biggest in Maine, with works from major European movements from Impressionism to Surrealism, including some by Mary Cassatt, René Magritte, Edgar Degas, Edvard Munch, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, and Auguste Rodin.

7 Congress Sq, Portland, ME 04101-1119, Phone: 207-775-6148

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