The story of the human experience
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) is one of the great encyclopedic museums of the world. Founded in 1870, the museum moved to its current location on Huntington Avenue in 1909. More than 450,000 objects in its collection span antiquity to the present day and it hosts significant special exhibitions, including for leading contemporary artists, providing a dynamic dialogue between historical and new art. The critically acclaimed Art of the Americas Wing opened in 2010, with 53 galleries to display the museum’s collections of north, south and central American art together for the first time. The Linde Family Wing for contemporary art opened in 2011 and in 2022 the MFA Boston unveiled a suite of seven galleries for Dutch and Flemish art, predominantly from the 17th century–a collection to rival any outside the Netherlands.
