cape ann museum

Beautiful recently renovated spaces. Excellent special and permanent exhibits. Friendly and helpful staff. Very nice small performance auditorium. Well worth the visit.

The Cape Ann Museum is a hidden gem of local art and history packaged in a beautiful, convenient and not-too-large building in downtown Gloucester, where all ages can learn more about local history and current culture via beautiful local art. The exhibits are pleasantly arranged, with a balance of old masterpieces and new art featured. We live locally, my husband and I, and never tire of visiting.

Recently renovated in to a small, world class museum. They have one of the largest collections of Fitz Henry Lane paintings in the world.

We've sailed the waters surrounding Cape Ann for many years, heard the stories and read about the heroes. The Cape Ann Museum puts it all together beautifully, capturing the light, ingenuity, and determination of visitors and natives alike. We visited just in time for a docent tour and it was just perfect. The emphasis was on the well known local artists, but we also got a lot of history, maritime and cultural...The galleries are beautifully designed and natural light abounds. It's well worth a visit and the gift shop doesn't disappoint.

New expansion is spectacular. Loved the history of Cape Ann that is carefully captured. A must see when visiting Cape Ann.

First, the interior spaces of this beautiful gem. I don't know of a finer set of spaces to display art. If you love art museums, you'll marvel at the ambiance. The Cape Ann Museum, like its bigger sibling the the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, began with a maritime emphasis. There is enough of that remaining to be interesting, but now the museum has a very excellent collection of American art, most of it by artists who at some time painted in Gloucester. These are artists like Theresa Bernstein, Edward Hopper, Fitz Henry Lane, Milton Avery, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam as well as Myerowitz, Sloan, Twachtman, Pendergast, Max Kuehne and others. There are also excellent works by contemporary artists from Cape Ann. If you are a museum person you will not regret a couple of hours in the wonderful place.

This little gem has a Winslow Homer! along with Fitz Henry Lane's and other gorgeous local painters, it is absolutely worth a visit or even two.

Amazed! Everyone who loves museums should visit this one! Not only are the Fritz Henry Lane works impressive but so many other works in the museum are note worthy. If possible, take the guided tour! Our tour guide was wonderful and we would have missed a lot of the explanations on set up and design and details of other artist if we missed the tour. The tour included the Davis House, which complimented the newly beautifully renovated museum. Must see this museum for yourself, to fully appreciate its essence. A small well displayed gift shop is available.

This museum is a little gem. I call it the museum for people who aren't crazy about museum visits. Not just paintings, although they are wonderful, but furniture and artifacts that give a really good idea of Gloucester and its history. Not to be missed, and not expensive.

We visited the museum and took the docent's tour which was very informative. I was surprised, however, that she didn't even mention the 3 Winslow Homer's and the Edward Hopper! Learned quite a bit about the various artists of the Cape Ann area of which there were many. I was especially interested in the Folly Cove Designers beautiful textiles. There were also artifacts such as a Fresnel lens that was used in one of the two Thatcher Island lighthouses. The museum has just had a major renovation and was well-laid out with many period pieces of furniture as part of the exhibits. I f you are at all interested in maritime history, this museum is a must.

I visited this museum as part of the free day of the Smithsonian institution's Museum Day Live program. It's on the small side and I don't think I would have visited if I had to pay for admission. The focus of the artwork is on Fitz Henry Lane and his maritime inspired art. We caught up with the guided tour at one point to hear how the museum's collection has art that has to do with Walker Hancock and the Monument Men.

Thanks to a multi-million dollar renovation, this gem of a museum now presents the story of Cape Ann in a way that engages locals and visitors alike. There are world class paintings and sculptures, exhibits on fisheries, maritime history, the granite industry, and local crafts (the Folly Cove Designers alone are worth the trip.)There are also changing exhibits of living and classic artists and craftspeople. A unique community now has the museum that it deserves.

It's a well laid out museum that has exhibits to appeal to adults and some activities for children as well.

When I have out of town visitors I always bring them to the Cape Ann Museum and it never disappoints. It is being renovated right now but will reopen this summer. It has some history and culture of Cape Ann so you do not have to be an art lover to enjoy it.Within walking distance of the museum is Main Street which has great restaurants and shops.It is 2 blocks from the waterfront and beautiful parks.

This is a small museum that does not have a lot of fanfare, pushing of membership, advertisement of them or being pretentious. What they have is a great collection of paintings of the area and from past and present artists. If you like Fritz Hugh Lane paintings you will love this place. Well worth the visit over other area museums with larger budgets and expenses..