Fogg Museum
- Architect
- Richard Morris Hunt
- Year
- 1896
- Style
- Colonial Revival
- City
- Boston, MA
The Fogg Museum is the founding institution of the Harvard Art Museums, established in 1895 and housed in a Georgian Revival building designed by Richard Morris Hunt in 1896. It grew alongside the Busch-Reisinger Museum (1903) and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (1985), the three eventually unified under one name as the Harvard Art Museums.
the building
Scale. The main building contains 204,000 square feet of space for exhibitions, classrooms, and conservation and research labs, with roughly 43,000 square feet dedicated to public exhibition galleries.
the style
Richard Morris Hunt's Georgian Revival design, completed in 1896, aligned the young museum with the classical architectural language then favored for American academic and civic buildings.
More on Colonial Revivalthe architect
Richard Morris Hunt, who designed the Fogg's 1896 building, was one of the most significant American architects of his era.
significance
Individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the Fogg now anchors the Harvard Art Museums, a merger of three institutions — the Fogg, the Busch-Reisinger Museum (1903), and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum (1985) — combined in 1983 (with "University" dropped from the name in 2008) and holding a collection of roughly 250,000 objects.
nearby
- Harvard Art Museums
- Sever Hall
- Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
- Harvard Union
- Memorial Hall
- Church of the New Jerusalem