Museum of Bad Art, Art museum in Boston, United States

The Museum of Bad Art is a privately owned museum whose stated aim is to celebrate artists whose work would be shown nowhere else. Its permanent collection holds over 700 pieces, of which 25 to 35 hang at any one time. Founded in 1993, it began in Dedham and is now in Boston.

Antique dealer Scott Wilson found Lucy in the Field with Flowers between two trash cans on a Roslindale curb in Boston. He wanted only the frame, but Jerry Reilly kept the painting and urged friends to look for more bad art. Reilly and Marie Jackson hosted a party in their West Roxbury basement, jokingly titled "The Opening of the Museum of Bad Art". The museum was officially founded in 1993, and its first exhibition opened in March 1994.

The museum's motto is "art too bad to be ignored". Co-founder Marie Jackson said the collection celebrates "an artist's right to fail, gloriously", and curators reject deliberate kitsch and works by children. The signature piece, Lucy in the Field with Flowers, was found between two trash cans in Roslindale.

The museum's gallery is inside the Dorchester Brewing Company at 1250 Massachusetts Avenue in Boston. It is free to visit during the brewery's opening hours, which begin at 11:30 AM. The display is in the same room as the brewing space, so visitors can see the tanks while viewing the art.

Two works have been stolen from MOBA. R. Angelo Le's "Eileen", found in the trash with a knife slit in the canvas, vanished in 1996; a $6.50 reward was offered, later raised to $36.73, and the painting returned in 2006 after a $5,000 ransom demand went unpaid. In 2004 Rebecca Harris's "Self Portrait as a Drainpipe" was taken and replaced by a $10 ransom note with no contact details; the painting came back with a $10 donation.