Lyman Allyn Museum of Art

Frommer's Review

This neoclassical granite pile stands on a hill looking across Route 32 toward the Coast Guard Academy. Its holdings are the result of the enthusiasms of private collectors and therefore adhere to no specific curatorial vision. Colonial American paintings are supplemented by landscapes by Hudson River School landscapists Frederic Edwin Church, George Inness, and Albert Bierstadt. Upstairs are exhibits as diverse as Asian temple castings and Japanese lacquerware, along with traveling shows. Pause a moment to study the robustly intricate ship models of a local folk artist. A notable collection of 19th-century dolls and dollhouses, arranged in detailed room settings right down to tiny ladles on the kitchen counter, is now in the nearby Deshon-Allyn House.

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