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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Review
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Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 
Museums / Galleries, Providence
Fodor's Review:
Deceiving from the exterior, this museum is a multilevel complex housing paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, textiles, and decorative arts -- 80,000 works are in frequent rotation. The museum's permanent holdings include the Aldrich collection of Japanese prints, Gorham silver, American furniture, Latin American art, and French impressionist paintings including Monet, Manet, Degas, and Renoir. Also here are galleries filled with Greco-Roman, Egyptian, Asian, and Islamic art, as well as European and American art from the Middle Ages through the 20th century. Keep an eye out for purposeful juxtapositioning: a 19th-century bronze bust of an African woman is displayed in a gallery dominated by a formal family portrait of the Napoleonic era; a machine-age painting of flowers flanks a window to the museum's garden courtyard; an early Gauguin landscape hangs beside a Pissarro painted at the same site. Since this is a university museum, exhibits may include demonstration videos, or unfinished works by masters such as Cassatt and Cézanne. Popular with children are the 10-foot wooden statue of Buddha and the Egyptian mummy, which dates from 300 BC. Admission includes the adjoining Pendleton House, a replica of an early-19th-century Providence house.
INFO
- Address: 224 Benefit St., East Side, Providence, RI, 02903
- Phone: 401/454-6500
- Web site
- Cost: $8, free Sun. 10-1 and Fri. noon-1:30
- Open: Tues.-Sun. 10-5
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