The Worcester Art Museum stands at 55 Salisbury Street in Worcester, Massachusetts. It opened in 1898 in a three-story building designed by Stephen C. Earle. Stephen Salisbury III gave the land and $100,000 for its construction.
The museum grew in stages. A Salisbury Street wing, designed by William Truman Aldrich and built from 1931 to 1933, has a Beaux-Arts exterior. It also holds a twelfth-century French chapter house, which was bought in 1927 and installed in 1932. The Renaissance Court beside it has an Antioch mosaic floor from the first to sixth centuries. A rear wing was added in 1920 and 1921. The Higgins Education Wing followed in 1970 and the Hiatt Wing in 1983.
Today the museum holds more than 38,000 works of art.
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