Portland Museum of Art

See Winslow Homer, Andrew Wyeth, Monet and Picasso across three linked buildings in Portland's downtown Arts District.

7 Congress Square · Portland, ME

About Portland Museum of Art

Founded in 1882, the Portland Museum of Art is the oldest and largest public art institution in Maine, holding more than 22,000 works. Its campus joins the McLellan House, the L. D. M. Sweat Memorial Galleries and a 1983 building by Henry Nichols Cobb of I. M. Pei & Partners. You can see paintings by Winslow Homer and Andrew Wyeth alongside European works by Monet and Picasso, and visitors 21 and under always get in free.

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