McMullen Museum of Art

Chesnut Hill, United States

4.8

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4 reviews

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+1 617-552-8100
Website:
www.bc.edu
Address:
Boston College - Devlin Hall 108 140 Commonwealth Ave, Chesnut Hill, MA, 02467
Nearby public transportation stops & stations:
0.4 miBoylston St @ Hammond St
0.4 miBoylston St @ Star Market - Service Rd
0.4 miBoylston St @ Tully St
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Today

Today 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Open now
Local time (Chesnut Hill) 13:29 Friday, 29 November 2024

Business hours

Monday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Tuesday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Thursday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Friday 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Saturday 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Sunday 12:00 pm – 5:00 pm

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4 reviews of McMullen Museum of Art

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Place rating: 4
Wellesley, MA
I always love a pocket-​sized, free museum; you can browse and leave without feeling compelled to get your money’s worth. The current exhibit is about art and artifacts from the periphery of the Roman Empire and features some cool mosaics. It’s not difficult to park for free a little ways up Comm Ave, and BC’s campus architecture is beautiful.
Place rating: 5
Boston, MA
A wonderful museum that puts on exciting, interesting, and thought-​provoking exhibitions — history and art oriented. You can see the whole museum without getting exhausted. It’s in the Newton part of Chestnut Hill. Go to the main gate on Commonwealth Ave. and tell the guards you want to go to McMullen Museum of Art. Unless, there is a big athletic event on campus, they will let you park right very close. The BC stop on the Green line is within walking distance too.
Place rating: 5
Newton, MA
An oft-​neglected little free gem of BC. I believe they have one exhibition per semester. It’s located behind the admissions office in Devlin Hall If you go during the week, during the day, don’t be put off by the mobs of prospective students/​families and current students flooding in/​out of class. Once you get past the crowds, you’re free to retreat in the quiet, intimate, two floor displays. The guards are very sweet and knowledgeable and will often talk to you about what they know. You can probably leisurely soak in the entire exhibit in a hour or two, which makes for a lovely weekend afternoon outing (or fantastic break from outrageous thesis researching). There have never been more than a handful of people in there when I’ve visited during the week, and I doubt the weekends are any busier.
Last semester there was a Jackson Pollock/​Herbert Matter exhibit, and currently the exhibit is Jewish mosaics from the Roman Empire.
Place rating: 5
Cambridge, MA
The McMullen Museum resembles the traveling exhibition portion of a larger art museum. The show I went to was professionally put together and organized, and the art (making it’s American debut from Belgium) was world-​class. I highly recommend a visit to this really cool, free museum.