WORCESTER ― On this Women's History Month, it might surprise some to learn that Worcester Art Museum's first acquisition, gifted in 1896, was painted by a woman. The oil painting portrait of William ...

He died in 1961 at age 87. Today, most of the vast collection is housed in the Worcester Art Museum. The Worcester Art Museum is currently constructing new galleries to display the Higgins collection.

WORCESTER — The Worcester Art Museum has entered into a cultural cooperation agreement with the Italian government after identifying two objects from its collection that appear to have been ...

WORCESTER — The Worcester Art Museum announced Wednesday that it has hired Daniel W. Healey to the newly created position of provenance research specialist. Provenance research includes the ...

An online survey has been started on the authority's website and several consultations are planned in the coming months. The ...

Constructed over a three-year period concluding in 1931, the four-story building opened as The Museum of Steel and Armor.

The museum opened in 1931 and was founded by John Woodman Higgins, owner of the Worcester Pressed Steel Company, according to the Worcester Art Museum website. Higgins loved medieval tales of ...

See more than 35 Japanese prints — many on public view for the first time — at a new exhibition opening at the Worcester Art Museum called “Reflections of a Changing Japan: The Evolution of ...

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art — or MASS MoCA — will be hosting a number of local artists for their Assets for Artists (A4A) program; announcing the 2025 Worcester County ...