MassArt Art Museum

Just a block from either of Boston’s storied art institutions on Huntington Avenue, The MassArt Art Museum is a hidden gem for modern art that’s free to check out. Comprising two moderately-sized galleries, MAAM opened in 2020 and has made contemporary art more accessible in Boston than ever before. Like you’d find at the city’s renowned Institute for Contemporary Art a few miles away in the Seaport, avant-garde exhibitions of global, national and local artists are MAAM’s mission. “Displacement,” a show of nine artists’ works up through December 8, explored human relationships with their environments with multimedia works that have stayed in my mind. MAAM is currently closed until January 23, when “Future Fossils” opens with “imagine relics” created by more than a dozen international luminaries including Ai Weiwei. Did we mention it’s always free?