Back متحف الفنون الجميلة في بوسطن Arabic متحف بوسطون للفنون الجميله ARZ Təsviri Sənət Muzeyi (Boston) Azerbaijani Museu de Belles Arts de Boston Catalan Muzeum výtvarného umění (Boston) Czech Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) Danish Museum of Fine Arts, Boston German Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών της Βοστώνης Greek Belarta Muzeo de Bostono Esperanto Museo de Bellas Artes (Boston) Spanish
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 Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground | |
  Location within Boston  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Massachusetts)  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (the United States) | |
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| Established | 1870 |
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| Location | 465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115 |
| Coordinates | 42°20′22″N 71°5′39″W / 42.33944°N 71.09417°W |
| Type | Art museum |
| Accreditation | AAM |
| Visitors | 1,249,080 (2019)[1] |
| Director | Matthew Teitelbaum |
| Architect | Guy Lowell |
| Public transit access | Museum of Fine Arts  Ruggles Ruggles Ruggles |
| Website | mfa.org |
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,[2] it is the 79th-most-visited art museum in the world as of 2022[update].
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.
- ^ "Visitor Figures 2016" (PDF). The Art Newspaper Review. April 2017. p. 14. Retrieved March 23, 2018.
- ^ "Museum of Fine Arts Annual Report". Museum of Fine Arts. Retrieved May 20, 2016.