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Fogg Art Museum Review
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Fogg Art Museum 
- Address: 32 Quincy St., Cambridge, MA | Map It
- Phone: 617/495-9400
- www.artmuseums.harvard.edu
- Category: Museums/Galleries
- Location: Cambridge
Fodor's Review:
Seldom has so much been packed into so small a space. Harvard's most famous art museum is a virtual history of art, set in a Gothic interior. It's not overwhelming, rather just the right size to do the collection justice in an hour or two. The more than 80,000 permanent works focus primarily on European, American, and East Asian art. Collections of Italian Renaissance and 19th-century French impressionist paintings include Renoirs and Monets, plus works by van Gogh (Self-Portrait Dedicated to Paul Gauguin) and Degas (The Rehearsal). There are also works by Gauguin, Whistler, Klee, and Kandinsky. The museum has an impressive collection of decorative arts, including American and English silver, and the curious and distinctly uncomfortable Harvard University "President's Chair," used only at commencement.
Your ticket includes admission to the Busch-Reisinger Museum, entered through the Fogg Art Museum. From the serenity of the Fogg's old masters, you step into the jarring and mesmerizing world of German expressionists and other 20th-century artists. The museum was founded in 1902 as the university's Germanic Museum, but its collections now include the modern art considered "degenerate" by the Nazis, and art from central and northern Europe.
- Cost: $9, includes admission to Arthur M. Sackler Museum; free Sat. 10-noon, daily after 4:30
- Open: Mon.-Sat. 10-5, Sun. 1-5
- Metro: Harvard
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