On View
Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship (through December 31, 2023):
Level 1, Rotunda, Exhibition Hall, and Gallery 109
Sea Change (through December 31, 2023): Level 1, Galleries 102–105
Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context (through February 11, 2024): Level 2, Galleries 201–209
Models of American Sailing Ships (permanently on view): Lower Level
Exhibitions on view
Permanently installed works of art


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Sea Change (through 12/31/23) presents selections from the Addison’s rich collection of seascapes, maritime art, and model ships to explore the ocean and its shores as spaces of labor, leisure, passage, and danger.
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Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship (through December 31, 2023) presents a new body of work by Reggie Burrows Hodges, the inaugural recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Prize. In these compositions, Hodges contemplates the notion of turning a big ship—of marshalling collective will and labor to resist a powerful current.
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Hayes Prize 2023: Reggie Burrows Hodges, Turning a Big Ship (through December 31, 2023) presents a new body of work by Reggie Burrows Hodges, the inaugural recipient of the Addison’s Bartlett H. Hayes, Jr. Prize. In these compositions, Hodges contemplates the notion of turning a big ship—of marshalling collective will and labor to resist a powerful current.
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Sea Change (through 12/31/23) presents selections from the Addison’s rich collection of seascapes, maritime art, and model ships to explore the ocean and its shores as spaces of labor, leisure, passage, and peril.
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Sea Change (through 12/31/23) presents selections from the Addison’s rich collection of seascapes, maritime art, and model ships to explore the ocean and its shores as spaces of labor, leisure, passage, and peril.
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Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context (through 2/11/24; entire second level) demonstrates how recently acquired works complement the museum’s extant holdings and help us to see the collection in novel ways, drawing out new narratives, juxtapositions, and conversations across time and media.
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Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context (through 2/11/24; entire second level) demonstrates how recently acquired works complement the museum’s extant holdings and help us to see the collection in novel ways, drawing out new narratives, juxtapositions, and conversations across time and media.
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The Addison Gallery’s famed model ship collection, permanently installed in the building’s lower level, consisted originally of 24 works commissioned by the museum’s founder, Thomas Cochran, to document four centuries of American history.
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