The Davis Museum at Wellesley College is an art museum on the Wellesley College campus in Wellesley, Massachusetts. Rafael Moneo designed it, and it opened in its present form in 1993. The article does not name a client, construction dates or materials. The college first displayed its collection in the Farnsworth Art Building, which was founded in 1889.
The permanent collection holds about 11,000 objects that span antiquity to the present. Artists include Paul Cézanne, John Singleton Copley, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol, and the museum stands on the Wellesley campus.
A large Antioch mosaic, excavated jointly with the Worcester Art Museum, has been restored and is among its notable holdings. The college displayed its collection in the Farnsworth Art Building before the museum opened in its present form in 1993.
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