Wadsworth Atheneum

The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, is the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the United States. Founded in 1842, it occupies a group of historic buildings, including the Gothic Revival Wadsworth Atheneum designed by Alexander Jackson Davis. Its collections span more than 5,000 years of art and culture. The museum holds European and American paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, modern art and contemporary works. Highlights include paintings by Caravaggio, Monet, Dalí and Georgia O’Keeffe, as well as ancient Egyptian and Greek objects and one of the country’s notable collections of Hudson River School paintings.