Museum of Fine Arts Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in , 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.
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  • Type: Museum
  • Description: art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Also known as: “BMoFA”, “Boston Art Museum”, “Boston Museum of Fine Arts”, “Boston Museum of FIne Arts”, “MFA”, “MFA Boston”, “MFAB”, “MoFA”, “Museo de Bellas Artes (Boston)”, “Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)”, “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”, “Muzej lepih umetnosti v Bostonu”, “Бостонский музей изящных искусств”, “Бостонский художественный музей”, “Художественный музей Бостона”, and “波士顿美术博物馆”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and James P. Kelleher Rose Garden.

Museum
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The is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, which houses significant examples of European, Asian, and American art. Its collection includes paintings, sculpture, tapestries, and decorative arts. is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Garden
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College
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The is a private music school in , , United States. The conservatory is located on Huntington Avenue along the Avenue of the Arts near Boston Symphony Hall, and is home to approximately 750 students pursuing undergraduate and graduate studies, and 1,500 more in its Preparatory School and School of Continuing Education. is situated 2,200 feet east of Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Frederick Douglass Square Historic District and Mission Hill.

Neighborhood
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The is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts.

Suburb
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is a 3⁄4 square mile, primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, bordered by , and Fenway-Kenmore and the town of .

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The neighborhood is named after Kenmore Square, and after the Fens, both of which it encompasses. Kenmore Square is the area's dynamic urban center.

Museum of Fine Arts Boston

Latitude
42.33982° or 42° 20′ 23″ north
Longitude
-71.09394° or 71° 5′ 38″ west
Elevation
16 feet (5 metres)
Open location code
87JC8WQ4+WC
Geo­Names ID
4944804
Wiki­data ID
Q49133
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Museum of Fine Arts Boston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “متحف الفنون الجميلة في بوسطن”
  • Armenian: “Բոստոնի գեղարվեստի թանգարան”
  • Armenian: “Գեղարվեստի թանգարան”
  • Azerbaijani: “İncəsənət Muzeyi”
  • Azerbaijani: “Təsviri Sənət Muzeyi”
  • Bashkir: “Бостон нәфис сәнғәт музейы”
  • Basque: “Bostongo Arte Ederren Museoa”
  • Catalan: “Museu de Belles Arts de Boston”
  • Chinese: “波士頓美術館”
  • Czech: “Muzeum výtvarného umění”
  • Danish: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Danish: “Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Dutch: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Dutch: “Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “متحف بوسطون للفنون الجميله”
  • Esperanto: “Belarta Muzeo de Bostono”
  • Esperanto: “Muzeo de Belarto ĉe Bostono”
  • Finnish: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Finnish: “Museum of Fine Arts”
  • French: “musée des Beaux-Arts de Boston”
  • French: “Musée des beaux-arts de Boston”
  • French: “Musée des Beaux-Arts”
  • Galician: “Museo de Belas Artes de Boston”
  • Georgian: “ბოსტონის სახვითი ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
  • Georgian: “სახვითი ხელოვნების მუზეუმი, ბოსტონი”
  • German: “Museum der Schönen Künste Boston”
  • German: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • German: “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
  • Greek: “Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών της Βοστώνης”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון לאמנויות יפות”
  • Hebrew: “המוזיאון לאמנות (בוסטון)”
  • Igbo: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Indonesian: “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
  • Indonesian: “Museum Seni Rupa, Boston”
  • Italian: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Italian: “Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Japanese: “ボストン美術館”
  • Kazakh: “Бостон әсемдік өнер музейі”
  • Kirghiz: “Бостон асем искусство музейи”
  • Korean: “보스턴 미술관”
  • Latvian: “Bostonas tēlotājmākslas muzejs”
  • Malay: “Muzium Seni Halus, Boston”
  • Mazanderani: “قشنگ هنرون موزه”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Norwegian: “Museum of Fine Arts”
  • Persian: “موزه هنرهای زیبا”
  • Polish: “Museum of Fine Arts w Bostonie”
  • Portuguese: “Museu de Belas Artes de Boston”
  • Russian: “Музей изящных искусств Бостона”
  • Russian: “Музей изящных искусств”
  • Serbian: “Музеј лепих уметности у Бостону”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Muzej lijepih umjetnosti”
  • Slovenian: “Muzej lepih umetnosti”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Bellas Artes de Boston”
  • Spanish: “Museo de Bellas Artes”
  • Swedish: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
  • Swedish: “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
  • Tatar: “Sınlı Sänğät Muzeyı”
  • Telugu: “మ్యూజియం ఆఫ్ ఫైన్ ఆర్ట్స్, బోస్టన్”
  • Thai: “พิพิธภัณฑ์วิจิตรศิลป์”
  • Turkish: “Boston Güzel Sanatlar Müzesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Бостонський музей образотворчих мистецтв”
  • Ukrainian: “Музей витончених мистецтв”
  • Urdu: “میوزیم آف فائن آرٹس، بوسٹن”
  • Uzbek: “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
  • Vietnamese: “Bảo tàng Mỹ thuật Boston”
  • Welsh: “Amgueddfa’r Celfyddydau Cain”

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