Let your imagination
run wild
The MassArt Art Museum (MAAM) is Boston’s only free contemporary art museum, a space to experience works by extraordinary artists at the forefront of contemporary art. As MassArt's teaching museum, we are committed to educating and empowering the next generation of artists—both on our campus and throughout the world.
Welcome to MAAM!
This season our exhibitions explore how we shape the world we share. The artists on view consider how rights, histories, and identities are not simply inherited, but made and altered through engagement and acts of creativity. Think about the structures and beliefs that influence and enable the ways we live. What values are protected and promoted? What values do you think should be questioned, changed, or reinforced?
In the lobby, Baseera Khan shifts old symbols and materials of imperial power to imagine another future. Upstairs, Banu Cennetoğlu focuses on global human rights for her transformative installation. Downstairs, Robert Lazzarini creates mathematically-distorted sculptures that make us rethink how nations tell their stories and represent themselves.
Your curiosity makes our exhibitions and programs come alive.
Thank you for visiting!
Warmly,
Lisa Tung
To open eyes, expand minds, and create opportunity through the lens of contemporary art
We make groundbreaking contemporary art accessible to our community and the world—free of charge. We invite everyone to experience contemporary art, exchange ideas, and be part of the MAAM community.
MAAM is a kunsthalle, a non-collecting museum. We are always changing, forever evolving. We seek to demonstrate how contemporary art shapes our understanding of the world.
We curate diverse exhibitions designed to connect everyone to contemporary art. MAAM builds meaningful relationships with individuals and institutions in order to spark positive change in our community.
We are a teaching museum committed to shaping the visions and futures of MassArt students. Our educational reach is boundless: MAAM empowers families & communities through contemporary art.
We are bold, we seek the unprecedented. We inspire a broad and diverse array of artists – and ourselves – to experiment and transcend traditional disciplines.
Land Acknowledgment
The campus of Massachusetts College of Art and Design is located on the lands of indigenous tribes, such as the Wampanoag and Massachusett. We make this land acknowledgment to pay respect to these communities – past, present, and future – and recognize the painful history of erasure and ongoing violence toward indigenous people in North America and across the world. We acknowledge this part of our history to affirm our values to pursue a more just, compassionate, and equitable learning environment.
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