Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts main entrance with the Appeal to the Great Spirit statue in the foreground | |
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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) |
| 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, it is the 79th-most-visited art museum in the world as of 2022.
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.