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Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA

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Rose Art Museum

Brandeis University's free museum of modern and contemporary art, with a collection of about 9,000 objects and changing exhibitions.

415 South Street, Waltham, MA 02453 · Waltham, MA

About Rose Art Museum

The Rose Art Museum opened in 1961 on the Brandeis University campus in Waltham and holds one of the largest collections of modern and contemporary art in New England, about 9,000 objects. Its early collection includes works by Johns, Rauschenberg, Warhol and Willem de Kooning, and its galleries show changing exhibitions. Out front, Chris Burden's Light of Reason fans out in three rows of Victorian lamp posts. Admission is free with a timed ticket; the museum is open Wednesday to Sunday.

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