Higgins Armory Museum [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Higgins Armory Museum
The Higgins Armory Museum is the name of a collection in the Worcester Art Museum. It was formerly a separate museum located in the nearby Higgins Armory Building in Worcester, Massachusetts, dedicated to the display of arms and armor. It was "the only museum in the country devoted solely to arms and armor" and had the second largest arms and armor collection in the country from its founding in 1931 until 2004, behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The collection consists of 2,000 objects
highlights of the Higgins collection is on view, and the art museum will renovate its current library to house the collection permanently. The new gallery is slated to open in 2015. It is still unknown what will be done with the Higgins Armory building.
Architecture.
The Higgins Armory Museum building was constructed between 1929 and 1931 specifically to hold Higgin's collection of arms and armor in a museum setting. The four-story Art Deco building was designed by Joseph D. Leland of Boston, Massachusetts. The steel-framed