Take your family to enjoy the beautiful displays of art at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art. This is a world class museum which traces the history of art from antiquity to the present through special exhibitions and a collection of nearly 84,000 works of art in all media including painting, sculpture, decorative, arts, costumes & textiles, prints, drawings, photographs and video. Highlights include Pendleton House, the first wing of a museum devoted to American decorative arts; a nine-foot Buddha, an Egyptian coffin & mummy; an arcade of 19th century galleries including Monet, Manet, Cezanne, and Matisse; and special exhibitions devoted to contemporary art.