Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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 (1870)
Location	465 Huntington Avenue Boston, Massachusetts 02115
Coordinates	42°20′22″N 71°5′39″W / 42.33944°N 71.09417°W / 42.33944; -71.09417
Type	Art museum
Accreditation	AAM
Visitors	1,249,080 (2019)[1]
Director	Matthew Teitelbaum
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

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.