The Sert Gallery was created to provide exhibition space for modern and contemporary art at the Art Museums. Completed in the summer of 2000, the gallery builds upon the Art Museums commitment to programming and scholarship in this important area of study.

The Art Museums have actively collected contemporary art since the early twentieth century. Over the years, these holdings have grown significantly, prompting the recent creation of a curatorial department of modern and contemporary art, in addition to new gallery space.

Adjacent to the Fogg and Busch-Reisinger Museums, the Gallery is located within the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, the only building in North America designed by Le Corbusier. The principal architectural challenge of the renovation was to create a clear and individual identity for the gallery, while respecting one of North America’s most significant architectural monuments.

The new Sert Gallery has been designed to accommodate a broad range of media, including painting, sculpture, works on paper, film and video, and installations. At 1,200 square feet, the gallery is a pure geometric form—a rectangle. The space includes museum-quality climate control and lighting systems, as well as an adjoining café overlooking the Harvard campus.

Admission to the Sert Gallery is free.