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Special Resources

Early American Art CD-ROM preview
A preview of the Early American Art CD-ROM


Web access to thousands of images and the library catalogs of the Worcester Art Museum and the College of the Holy Cross.

Online Gallery

The Worcester Art Museum online gallery is just a small sample of what you'll find in our extensive collection. It features art and descriptive text from our Selected Works catalog, including American, Ancient, Asian, European and Precolumbian art samples.

Perhaps you'd rather see what we've recently acquired? Our recent acquisitions page includes a brief history of the pieces features. New this fall are pieces of Paul Revere silver, a gift of UnumProvident.

Collections

The Worcester Art Museum is acclaimed for the quality of its collections. European and North American painting, prints, photographs and drawings; Asian art, Greek and Roman sculpture and mosaics and Contemporary art. The collection is organized geographically except for Western prints, drawings and all photographs which are organized by medium and Contemporary Art which is defined as the international art of the past ten years in all media.

For questions that do not clearly fall within our defined curatorial department contact the Curatorial Department Office at 508.799.4406 x3005.

Library

The Worcester Art Museum Library, founded in 1909 as a non-circulating bibliographic resource dedicated to the history of art, reflects the collection strengths of the Worcester Art Museum.