The Decorative Arts collection encompasses more than 55,600 objects from Europe, the Americas, and across the globe.
These artworks and objects of daily life span the 16th-century to the present and include examples of ceramics, furniture, glass, jewelry, silver, textiles, and other materials. Luxurious or ordinary, hand-crafted or mass-produced, decorative or functional—each reveals multifaceted stories of the people who made and used them. The largest collection object, the 1885 Ballantine House, showcases the Decorative Arts collection in its period rooms and galleries. Major subcollections include art pottery, studio crafts, American silver, and jewelry.
The Ballantine House is closed for restoration through Fall 2023.
Reopening November 17 
