Chrysler Museum of Art

The Museum's campus also features the Perry Glass Studio,[1] a full-service restaurant,[2] a gift shop, Kaufman Theater,[3] and the Goode Works on Paper Center,[4] and it oversees the historic Myers House.

The most recent expansion[8] was to the museum’s Perry Glass Studio[9], located at 245 Grace Street, which tripled the size of the facility and doubled the educational and programmatic offerings available.

École de Paris Jewish artist Yitzhak Frenkel,[15] the French artists Eugène Delacroix, Édouard Manet, Paul Cézanne, Gustave Doré, Auguste Rodin, Mary Cassatt, Paul Gauguin, Georges Rouault, Henri Matisse, Georges Braque and the German Albert Bierstadt.

The Chrysler Museum is home to the final sculpture of the Baroque master Gianlorenzo Bernini, a marble bust of Jesus Christ created as a gift for the artist's benefactor, Queen Christina of Sweden.

[citation needed] In 1999, the provenance and ownership of the sculpture The Wounded Indian by Peter Stephenson was contested by the Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association.

[16] The Chrysler Museum provides guided tours, lectures, films, concerts, family days, story time in the galleries, travel programs, and publications.

Recent offerings include Rembrandt's Etchings: The Embrace and Darkness of Light, From Goya to Sorolla: Masterpieces from The Hispanic Society of America, To Conserve a Legacy: American Art from Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Rodin: Sculpture from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection and American Chronicles: The Art of Norman Rockwell.

[18] In 2022, the Museum embarked on an expansion project which tripled the size of the Glass Studio and doubled the number of classes available to both the general public and community partners.

The library subscribes to several hundred art-related journals, has an extensive collection of current and historical auction catalogues, and exchanges publications with 400 art museums around the world.

In 1977, the library of the London art dealer M. Knoedler & Co. was purchased, adding major historical reference volumes, periodicals, and rare annotated sales catalogues.

The library also houses the museum's archives, which includes the original copy of Mark Twain's speech he delivered at the Jamestown Tricentennial Exposition of 1907 and a collection of papers from the Moses Myers family.

Today the house contains an important collection of American, English and French furniture, glass, silver, ceramics, and portraits by Gilbert Stuart, Thomas Sully, and John Wesley Jarvis.

Its facade features a pedimented gable end roof and a small aedicula type portico surrounding the front door.