Wadsworth Atheneum

| Art museums | Wadsworth  Atheneum |
| Country | the United States |
| State | Connecticut |
| City | Hartford  |
| Location | 600 Main Street
Hartford CT 06103 |
| About the Museum | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, located at 600 Main Street, Hartford, CT, is the oldest continuously operating public art museum in the United States, founded in 1842 and opened in 1844 — three decades before the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. |
| Museum Collections | The Permanent Collection: European art, American decorative, Contemporary art, Costume & textiles , European decorative arts. |
| Web site | http://www.wadsworthatheneum.org/ |










