FB94 THE BOSTON COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART

Boston College Fact Book, 1993-1994

Contact:  factbook@bc.edu 

Date Posted: 09-01-94

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THE BOSTON COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART



The Boston College Museum of Art aims to increase 

understanding of the visual arts, to encourage inquiry, and 

to enrich learning through the display of a notable permanent 

collection and special exhibitions of international 

importance. The Museum occupies two floors of Devlin Hall. 

Spacious galleries with movable walls provide flexible 

exhibition spaces that rival venues in larger museums. 



Begun in the nineteenth century, the University's permanent 

collection contains masterpieces that span the history of art 

from Europe, Asia and the Americas. Outstanding among them 

are Gothic and Baroque tapestries, Italian paintings of the 

sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, American landscape 

paintings of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, 

and Japanese prints. The collection is displayed on a 

rotating basis in the Museum's galleries on the ground floor. 

In keeping with the teaching mission of a university museum, 

accompanying text explains the significance of each work in 

its historical context and addresses questions from the 

current scholarship. The Museum maintains an active special 

exhibition program, bringing outstanding works from around 

the world to Chestnut Hill. The Museum also contains a Micro 

Gallery, an innovative computer system which visitors to the 

Museum may use to display information and images of works in 

the permanent collection, as well as photographs of related 

works. The Museum organizes public lectures, symposia, 

workshops, film series, and gallery tours in concert with 

current exhibitions.



Source: Boston College Museum of Art