Worcester Art Museum

Worcester Art Museum

      in Worcester, Mass., one of the finest small art museums in the United States, whose chronologically arranged collections span 50 centuries and whose exhibitions are often major events in the art world. The John Chandler Bancroft collection of some 3,000 Japanese prints is internationally renowned, as is the reconstructed 12th-century Romanesque chapter house from a French monastery near Poitiers. The museum opened in 1898.

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