Salem Art Works is one of the most remarkable assets of Salem. Founded by Anthony Cafritz in 2005, Salem Art Works supports emerging and established artists dedicated to creating new, progressive work, and promotes understanding and appreciation of contemporary art within the region. Visit their website here.

Opened to the public in 1955, the Clark has become one of the most beloved and respected art museums in the world, known for its intimate galleries and stunning natural environment. One of the few institutions in the United States that combines a public art museum with research and academic programs, including a major art history library, the Clark is now a leading international center for research and discussion on the nature of art and art history. Visit their website here.

The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing arts in the United States. Visit their website here.

This art museum features distinguished collections of European and American art, and modern and contemporary art. Its permanent collection of nearly 4,000 works spans centuries and consists of paintings, drawings, graphics, sculpture and decorative arts. The core collection, acquired by museum founders Louis and Charlotte Hyde, includes works by such artists as Botticelli, El Greco, Rembrandt, Rubens, Degas, Seurat, Picasso, and Renoir; and American artists Eakins, Hassam, Homer, and Whistler.

The museum’s collection of modern and contemporary art features works by artists including Albers, Gottlieb, Hartigan, Kelly, LeWitt, Motherwell, Nicholson and Rauschenberg. The Hyde Collection presents changing exhibitions in its four galleries, as well as lectures, concerts and events in its modern museum complex and historic house.