The Muskegon Museum of Art is an art museum in Muskegon, Michigan. It was started in 1912 as the Hackley Art Gallery because of a gift from Charles Hackley. The museum is in the Muskegon Historic District.
History
Charles Hackley, a business owner from Muskegon, left $150,000 in his will to buy "pictures of the best kind," which became known as the Hackley Picture Fund. In 1910, five years after Hackley's death, the Muskegon Public Schools Board of Education decided to build a museum to store the growing collection. The Hackley Art Gallery opened in 1912 and was renamed the Muskegon Museum of Art in 1980 after a large expansion.
From 2024 to 2025, the museum completed a $15.4 million expansion project. This project increased the museum's size from 31,800 to 57,570 square feet, nearly doubling its space.
Collection
The museum has more than 5,000 works in its permanent collection, including pieces by artists such as John Steuart Curry, Edward Hopper, Winslow Homer, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Lucas Cranach the Elder, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre Bonnard.
Gallery
- Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Holy Family, around 1910.
- John Steuart Curry, Tornado Over Kansas, 1929.
- Edward Hopper, New York Restaurant, 1922.
- Joos van Cleve, Saint Jerome in Penitence, 1516–18.
- James McNeill Whistler, Study in Rose and Brown, around 1884.
- Alfred Sisley, La Seine à Saint Mammès, around 1880–81.
- Camille Pissarro, La Ferme (The Farm), 1879.
- Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther as Knight George (Junker Jörg), 1537.
- Workshop of Lucas Cranach the Elder, Portrait of Katharina von Bora, 1537.