The Museum Of Bad Art (MOBA) is the world's only museum dedicated to the collection, preservation, exhibition and celebration of bad art in all its forms.
What's New
THIRD OPEN CALL FOR INSPIRED INTERPRETATORS: You've read the interpretations of MOBA art. Try naming this work and writing your own narrative. Someone will win a prize and a lot of glory.
After much deliberation, a WINNER has been declared in the Second Open Call for Guest Interpretators. You were challenged to interpretate an anonymous painting and write a narrative.
A new category of Bad Art - "Recent Acquisitions" is now available for your discerning viewing enjoyment.
About MOBA
Since 1994, the Museum of Bad Art has been dedicated to bad art. It is only through the efforts of the worldwide Friends of MOBA that we have been able to carry out our mission: to bring the worst of art to the widest of audiences.
MOBA maintains this website as well as the largest network of theatre-basement exhibition venues on Earth. That is, we have not one, but two bricks-and-mortar galleries in the basements of the Somerville Theater in Davis Square,
Somerville, MA, and the Dedham Community Theatre in Dedham Square, MA. Through traveling exhibits, special events, and changing exhibits, we share the best bad art ever assembled in one or two museums.
Our collection numbers almost 400 pieces, but due to limited exhibition space, we show 30 to 40 at a time. Each piece is presented with the kind of descriptive narrative you will find with the art here.
