Museums in USA
Discover 52 artists’ homes, studios and creative spaces across USA. Browse by city or open a museum page for its description and practical visitor information.
Alice Austen House
Staten Island, New York, USA
The Alice Austen House preserves Clear Comfort, the waterfront home of pioneering American photographer Alice Austen. Period rooms, exhibitions and Austen’s photographs illuminate her working life and her 56-year relationship with Gertrude Tate.
Bush-Holley House
Cos Cob, Connecticut, USA
Bush-Holley House preserves the setting of the Cos Cob Art Colony as well as an earlier period of the house’s history. Guided visits explore the rooms where artists lived, worked and gathered.
Chesterwood
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Chesterwood was the summer home and studio of sculptor Daniel Chester French. The estate combines his working studio, domestic rooms, gardens and woodland with exhibitions of sculpture.
Colonial Williamsburg
Williamsburg, Virginia, USA
The world's largest living history museum, recreating 18th-century colonial Virginia with original and reconstructed buildings. Nestled in Williamsburg, USA, it preserves an extraordinary record of colonial history for visitors to discover.
Couse-Sharp Historic Site
Taos, New Mexico, USA
The Couse-Sharp Historic Site preserves the homes and studios of two founding members of the Taos Society of Artists. Appointment-led tours explore paintings, working spaces, gardens and the Couse family’s workshops.
Demuth Museum of Art on King
Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA
The Demuth Museum’s King Street location presents exhibitions connected to Charles Demuth and Lancaster’s artistic heritage. This listing is for the gallery at 120 East King Street; check the museum’s visitor information for access to its other historic spaces.
Dia Beacon
Beacon, USA
Dia Beacon occupies a former Nabisco box-printing factory overlooking the Hudson River. Its expansive, naturally lit galleries present long-term installations and major works from the 1960s to the present, with the industrial building forming an essential part of the experience.
Dyckman Farmhouse Museum
Manhattan, New York, USA
Manhattan's oldest surviving farmhouse, built in Dutch colonial style around 1784. Set in in the heart of Manhattan, the historic house draws visitors from around the world who come to experience its unique atmosphere firsthand.
Eames Foundation
Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, USA
The iconic Case Study House #8 designed by Charles and Ray Eames, a mid-century masterpiece in Pacific Palisades. Nestled within extensive gardens in Pacific Palisades, it preserves an extraordinary record of Charles Eames's work and life for visitors to discover.
Edgar Allan Poe Cottage
Bronx, New York, USA
Small cottage in the Bronx where Edgar Allan Poe lived from 1846 to 1849, writing some of his final works. A place of genuine historical and artistic significance, it offers a rare window into Edgar Allan Poe's work and life.
Edward Hopper House Museum & Study Center
Nyack, New York, USA
Edward Hopper’s childhood home in Nyack is now a museum and study centre. Historic rooms and changing exhibitions explore his early surroundings and the continuing influence of his work.
Emily Dickinson Museum
Amherst, USA
The Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, Massachusetts, comprises two adjacent properties: the Homestead, where Dickinson was born in 1830 and lived for most of her life, and The Evergreens, the Italianate villa next door occupied by her brother and sister-in-law. Together they preserve the domestic world of one of America's most extraordinary poets, who composed nearly 1,800 poems while rarely leaving these grounds.
Florence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
Florence Griswold’s boardinghouse became a gathering place for the Lyme Art Colony. Painted doors and panels, historic rooms, gardens and galleries connect the artists’ shared domestic life with their work.
Frelinghuysen Morris House & Studio
Lenox, Massachusetts, USA
The modernist home and studios of Suzy Frelinghuysen and George L. K.
Gari Melchers Home and Studio
Falmouth, Virginia, USA
Belmont preserves the home, studio and gardens of painter Gari Melchers and his wife Corinne. House tours and the studio collection connect his international career with life on the Virginia estate.
Gropius House
Lincoln, Massachusetts, USA
Walter Gropius’s family home offers an intimate view of the Bauhaus founder’s domestic life. Hour-long tours explore the preserved house and its relationship to the surrounding landscape.
Hemingway Home and Museum
Key West, Florida, USA
Ernest Hemingway's Spanish Colonial home in Key West where he wrote some of his most celebrated novels. Today it stands as one of Key West's most compelling cultural sites, offering an intimate encounter with Ernest Hemingway's work and life.
Hollyhock House
Los Angeles, USA
Frank Lloyd Wright designed Hollyhock House for arts patron Aline Barnsdall as the centrepiece of an experimental cultural complex. The house blends indoor and outdoor space, abstract hollyhock motifs and monumental forms, and forms part of the UNESCO-listed works of Wright.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Eccentric Boston collector Isabella Stewart Gardner's Venetian-style palace housing a world-class art collection. A place of genuine historical and artistic significance, it offers a rare window into Isabella Stewart Gardner's work and life.
John F. Kennedy's House
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
A Kennedy family home in Brookline associated with the early years of President John F. Kennedy.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy National Historic Site
Brookline, Massachusetts, USA
The birthplace of President John F. Kennedy, preserved as it appeared in 1917 by the Kennedy family.
Judd Foundation
New York, USA
The Judd Foundation at 101 Spring Street in SoHo occupies the five-storey cast-iron building that Donald Judd purchased in 1968 and spent nearly three decades transforming into a total work of art. Every floor was arranged by Judd himself, integrating his own works alongside furniture of his own design, works by contemporaries — Flavin, Chamberlain, Stella — and the objects, books, and tools of daily life into a unified spatial environment unlike any other.
Lefferts Historic House
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Dutch colonial farmhouse from the 1780s, preserved in Prospect Park, Brooklyn. Located in Brooklyn, USA, it has long been a cherished destination for those with an interest in colonial history.
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Corona, Queens, New York, USA
The Louis Armstrong House Museum preserves the Queens home where Louis and Lucille Armstrong lived from 1943. Small guided tours reveal original rooms, personal recordings and everyday belongings, while the nearby Armstrong Center expands the story through exhibitions and archives.
MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House
West Hollywood, Los Angeles, USA
The Schindler House is the headquarters and exhibition space of the MAK Center for Art and Architecture. Its programme brings art and architecture together through exhibitions, talks and events.
MANITOGA / The Russel Wright Design Center
Garrison, New York, USA
Russel Wright’s Dragon Rock home is set into a former quarry at Manitoga. Guided tours bring together the designer’s domestic interiors, landscape design and changing art installations.
Mark Twain House & Museum
Hartford, USA
The Mark Twain House in Hartford, Connecticut, is the exuberant High Victorian Gothic mansion where Samuel Langhorne Clemens lived from 1874 to 1891, the period during which he produced some of his most celebrated work: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and The Prince and the Pauper were all written here. Twain designed much of the interior himself in collaboration with the decorator Louis Comfort Tiffany.
Merchant's House Museum
Manhattan, New York, USA
Remarkably intact 1832 New York townhouse preserving its original Federal-period furnishings and décor. Located in Manhattan, USA, it has long been a cherished destination for those with an interest in 19th-century history.
Molly Brown House Museum
Denver, Colorado, USA
The Molly Brown House Museum interprets the restored 1889 Denver home of activist, philanthropist and Titanic survivor Margaret Brown. Its rooms place Brown’s public advocacy, international life and family story within the architecture of Gilded Age Capitol Hill.
Mount, Edith Wharton Cultural Center
Lenox, USA
The Mount is the country house that Edith Wharton designed and built in 1902 in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, applying the principles she had set out in her influential treatise The Decoration of Houses. The property — house, formal gardens, and woodland walks — was Wharton's most sustained experiment in architecture and landscape design, and she wrote some of her finest work here, including The House of Mirth.
Neutra VDL Studio and Residences
Silver Lake, Los Angeles, USA
Richard Neutra's personal Los Angeles studio home beside a small lake, a landmark of Californian modernism. Set in in Silver Lake, USA, the architect's house draws visitors from around the world who come to experience its unique atmosphere firsthand.
Noguchi Museum
Long Island City, New York, USA
Isamu Noguchi's former studio and garden in Queens, displaying his sculptures and Japanese-American aesthetic. Located in Long Island City, USA, it has long been a cherished destination for those with an interest in sculpture and art.
Olana State Historic Site
Hudson, New York, USA
Olana is landscape painter Frederic Edwin Church’s 250-acre home, studio and designed landscape above the Hudson River. The Persian-inspired house, art-filled interiors and carriage roads form a single artistic composition with views toward the Catskill Mountains.
Pollock-Krasner House
East Hampton, New York, USA
The former home and studio of Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner preserves their working environment in Springs. Paint traces in the studio and exhibitions in the house connect their daily lives with their experimental painting.
Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation
New York, USA
The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation preserves the Greenwich Village townhouse studio of the sculptor Chaim Gross, who was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1904 and became one of the leading figures of twentieth-century American sculpture. The five-storey building at 526 LaGuardia Place was Gross's home and working studio for decades, and it retains the personal collection of art, artefacts, and objects he assembled over a lifetime.
Rowan Oak
Oxford, Mississippi, USA
Rowan Oak was William Faulkner’s home in Oxford, Mississippi. The house and wooded grounds preserve the setting of his working life, including the study where he wrote an outline of A Fable on the walls.
Saarinen House
Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA
Eliel and Loja Saarinen’s home and studio is an Art Deco ensemble at Cranbrook, restored with original furniture, textiles and family-designed interiors. Guided tours visit the principal rooms and private spaces of the house.
Saint-Gaudens National Historical Park
Cornish, New Hampshire, USA
The sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens made his home and studios at Aspet in Cornish. Gardens, outdoor sculpture and seasonal historic interiors reveal the landscape and working spaces behind his public monuments.
Sam and Alfreda Maloof Foundation
Alta Loma, California, USA
Sam and Alfreda Maloof’s home displays the woodworker’s furniture alongside the couple’s art collection. The handmade architecture and gardens provide a setting for understanding Maloof’s approach to craft and everyday living.
Taliesin
Spring Green, Wisconsin, USA
Taliesin was Frank Lloyd Wright’s home, studio and school on an extensive Wisconsin estate. Several tours explore the house and other buildings, tracing different periods of Wright’s architectural work.
The Andrew Wyeth Studio
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA
Andrew Wyeth’s studio preserves the rooms where he developed much of his work and began family life with Betsy Wyeth. Guided visits depart by shuttle from the Brandywine Museum.
The Chinati Foundation
Marfa, Texas, USA
Founded by Donald Judd, the Chinati Foundation presents permanent installations conceived in relation to their buildings and desert surroundings. Guided tours provide access to much of the collection on the former military site.
The Gamble House
Pasadena, USA
The Gamble House introduces the architecture and craftsmanship of Charles and Henry Greene. Guided visits explore rooms with specially designed furnishings, handcrafted details and distinctive woodwork.
The Getty
Los Angeles, USA
The Getty Center brings together European art, photography, architecture, gardens and sweeping Los Angeles views on Richard Meier’s hilltop campus. Its galleries range from medieval manuscripts and decorative arts to paintings, sculpture and modern photography.
The Glass House
New Canaan, Connecticut, USA
Philip Johnson’s transparent house and the surrounding buildings form a landscape of architecture, art and gardens. Visits begin at the visitor centre at 199 Elm Street and travel to the site by shuttle.
The N.C. Wyeth House & Studio
Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, USA
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The Stickley Museum at Craftsman Farms
Morris Plains, New Jersey, USA
The Log House at Craftsman Farms was Gustav Stickley’s family home and a centre for his Arts and Crafts ideals. Guided tours reveal original furnishings and restored rooms from the family’s years on the property.
Thomas Cole National Historic Site
Catskill, New York, USA
Cedar Grove preserves Thomas Cole’s home and studios overlooking the landscape that shaped his painting. Historic interiors and changing exhibitions explore the artist’s work and the beginnings of the Hudson River School.
Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Thomas Hart Benton lived and painted in this Kansas City home for more than three decades. Guided tours introduce the family rooms and the separate studio, preserved with the artist’s materials and furnishings.
Washington Irving's Sunnyside
Irvington, New York, USA
Washington Irving’s Sunnyside is the author’s romantic Hudson River cottage and landscape, expanded to his own picturesque design. Guided tours explore the furnished rooms, Irving’s study and the grounds associated with the writer of Rip Van Winkle and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.
Weir Farm National Historical Park
Wilton, Connecticut, USA
Weir Farm preserves the home, studios and rural landscape associated with three generations of artists. Seasonal ranger-led visits connect the domestic rooms and working studios with the surrounding gardens and fields.
Wharton Esherick Museum
Malvern, Pennsylvania, USA
Wharton Esherick’s hand-built studio-home brings together sculpture, furniture and architecture. Guided visits explore the workspaces and interiors where he shaped wood into expressive everyday objects.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of museums are included?
The collection focuses on artists’ homes, writers’ houses, architects’ studios and other places connected to creative lives.
Should I check hours before visiting?
Yes. Opening hours and admission arrangements can change, so check the official museum link before travelling.