This renowned art museum not only offers an astounding permanent collection of works by European and American masters, such as Claude Monet, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, John Marin, Andrew Wyeth, and Childe Hassam, but presents changing exhibits of contemporary works. Also run by the Currier is the nearby Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Zimmerman House, built in 1950. Wright called this sparse,...
One of northern New England's premier art museums is a huge surprise in this industrial city. Housed in an elegant, classical 1932 Beaux Arts building a few blocks from Manchester's main drag, the Currier benefited from major renovations in the late 1990s and a second expansion in 2008. The permanent collections include some 12,000 works of European and American art, with fine pieces by Degas,...