This is an interesting and eclectic collection housed in a beautiful building in the upscale part of town. We enjoyed our visit, and focused our study on the paintings. An uplifting experience.

Museum is free and worthy of a visit(s). The floor plan is somewhat confusing. There are some unique exhibits here, for an art museum. We enjoyed it and would recommend a visit! 3-4 hours should be sufficient. No “great” works, but many “nice” works. Great for a hot day or a day with precipitation.

If you are looking for something to do on a day that is rainy and/or cold, this is a wonderful, educational museum to visit, and a bonus for tourists: admission is FREE!!This museum has artifacts from Egypt, vases and other treasures from Greece, paintings from the Medieval period as well as paintings from the 17th, 18th and 19th century. We didn't have time to visit much of the sculptures in their Sculpture Court, but what we saw was impressive. During our visit it was not crowded at all and was quiet. One downside of this place is that their map isn't terribly useful in helping visitors navigate through all the galleries, especially if you are trying to quickly find your way out to whichever entrance you came in. Fortunately there are plenty of employees scattered throughout the museum to help direct you back. Be sure to visit the 1 West Mount Vernon Place (Hackerman House), which is connected to the main building but also can easily be accessed from the street, via Washington Place entrance. The House holds 19th century art as well as contemporary ceramics. It has an amazing marble floating staircase with Tiffany glass ceiling at the top of it. There is street parking across the street, but we parked at the 15 West Franklin garage, where there was plenty of parking and the museum was a 3-minute walk away.

We free parked on Sunday morning near the 178’ Washington monument/Peabody Library and walked down to the museum for the 10AM opening. After using the nice restrooms, we took the elevator to the top and descended through all 3 floors of exhibit galleries to include the attached Hackerman House. Highpoints of our 2 hour visit to this large collection include the ancient Buddhas, superb Asian porcelain(4th C Reubens Vase/18th C “One Hundred Flowers vase), Della Robbia terracotta, carved ivory, medieval weaponry, Impressionists(Manet, Monet, Pissarro & Sissley) & the lovely rooms of the 1909 palace. Very worthwhile!

Fabulous, free, and wonder- full in every room. Statues, religious, ancient, precious. Really great collection