Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Also known as Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MFA Boston, MFA, MFAB
art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Key facts
- Established
- 1870 ( 1870 )
- Location
- 465 Huntington Avenue , Boston , Massachusetts, 02115
- Type
- Art museum
- Accreditation
- AAM
- Visitors
- 1,249,080 (2019)
- Director
- Pierre Terjanian
- Architect
- Guy Lowell
- Public transit access
- Green Line ( E branch ) Museum of Fine Arts Orange Line Ruggles Franklin/Foxboro Line Ruggles Providence/Stoughton Line Ruggles
- Website
- mfa.org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Revenue
- 144946782
- Official website
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The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than 1.2 million visitors a year, it is the 83rd-most-visited art museum in the world as of 2024.
Founded in 1870 in Copley Square, the museum moved to its current Fenway location in 1909. It is affiliated with the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts.
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