The Risd Museum Of Art, Providence, Rhode Island

This was a very nice art museum. My son enjoyed some of the more contemporary art created by the students of RISD. It was a nice way to get a taste of many types of important works of art in a museum that is very easy to navigate. My son also enjoyed poking around the gift shop afterwards.

Though it looks deceptively small from the street, the museum is actually quite large and comprises several buildings. The collection is enormous and impressively wide-reaching -- spanning many time periods, cultures, and an incredible variety of media. There is everything from decorative arts, silverworks, Chinese terra cotta, a wonderful selection of French Impressionist works, and Renaissance French and Greek statuary. The American wing holds paintings by Warhol, John Singer Sargent, and others.