Located in Boston’s new Seaport District, the ICA is Boston’s newest art museum, designed by award-winning architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The Institute of Contemporary Art strives to share the pleasures of reflection, inspiration, provocation, and imagination that contemporary art offers through public access to art, artists, and the creative process.
Heiress and philanthropist Isabella Stewart Gardner collected and carefully displayed a collection comprised of more than 2,500 objects—paintings, sculpture, furniture, textiles, drawings, silver, ceramics, illuminated manuscripts, rare books, photographs and letters—from ancient Rome, Medieval Europe, Renaissance Italy, Asia, the Islamic world and 19th-century France and America.
Located on the Charles River, the Boston Museum of Science is on the cutting edge of science education with innovative and interactive exhibits and programs.
