The small but comprehensive museum attached to the Rhode Island design college features many changing exhibitions, particularly relating to textiles. The museum's permanent collection includes the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller collection of Japanese prints, Chinese terracotta, Greek statuary and some French Impressionist paintings. Highlights are works by masters such as Monet, Cézanne, Rodin and Picasso. There is also an American section containing paintings by Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley and John Singer Sargent.

Address: 224 Benefit Street

Website: www.risdmuseum.org

Telephone: (401) 454 6500

Opening times: Tuesday to Sunday from 10am to 5pm; Thursday 10am to 9pm

Admission: $10 (adults), $3 (youths 5-18). Admission is on a 'pay-what-you-wish' basis on Sundays from 10am to 1pm, and free on the third Thursday of every month between 5pm and 9pm, and free on the last Saturday of every month