Visit
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Installation view, Tony Cokes: If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol 2, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, on view January 31–April 12, 2020. Pictured: Tony Cokes, The Will and The Way...Fragment 2 (video), 2019. Photo: Julia Featheringill / Stewart Clements.
While our iconic concrete building is difficult to miss among the surrounding brick architecture, our entrances can be hard to find. Enter by going up the ramp from Quincy Street, arriving at our Level 3 Gallery, or you may go down the steps from Quincy Street, entering by the poster kiosk at our Level 1 Gallery.
24 QUINCY STREET
CAMBRIDGE, MA 02138
(617) 496-5387
Public Transportation
The Carpenter Center is on the east perimeter of the Harvard University campus and east of the Harvard Square Red Line T stop. It is located between the Harvard Art Museums and Harvard Faculty Club, one block north of Massachusetts Avenue, at 24 Quincy Street in Cambridge.
Parking
Limited metered street parking is available on both Quincy Street and Broadway. Parking garages are available around Harvard Square.
Tours
Exhibition and building tours of the Carpenter Center may be accommodated on a case-by-case basis. We are expanding our building tour availability, so check back soon!
For group and class visits, please submit a Tour Request Form.
Bookshop
At our Bookshop on Level 3, you will find Carpenter Center original publications and tote bags, as well as books related to our current exhibitions. Visit us in person and online.