Higgins Armory Museum

The Higgins Armory Museum was a non-profit museum, located in Worcester, Massachusetts, dedicated to the display of arms and armor. According to the Boston Globe, from its founding in 1931 until 2004 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 behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The collection consisted of 2,000 objects, including 24 full suits of armor. The museum closed at the end of 2013 due to a lack of funding. Its collection and endowment were transferred and integrated into the Worcester Art Museum, with the collection to be shown in a new gallery slated to open in 2015. The Higgins Armory building was sold in December 2014. The historic structure is believed to be one of, if not the first, building in the U.S. constructed solely out of steel and glass.”