Figge Art Museum

Iowa


The glass-walled Figge Art Museum sparkles above the River Road. The museum’s Midwest Regionalist Collection includes many works by Iowa native (and American Gothic painter) Grant Wood; you can also stroll through the world-class Haitian and Mexican Colonial collections.


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