Museum of Fine Arts Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Also known as: “Boston Art Museum”, “Boston Museum of Fine Arts”, “MFA”, “MFA Boston”, “MFAB”, and “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and Appeal to the Great Spirit.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Public building
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The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum 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. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is situated 1,500 feet southwest of Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Appeal to the Great Spirit
Work of art
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Appeal to the Great Spirit is a 1908 equestrian statue by Cyrus Dallin, located in front of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. It portrays a Native American on horseback facing skyward, his arms spread wide in a spiritual request to the Great Spirit. Appeal to the Great Spirit is situated 400 feet south of Museum of Fine Arts Boston.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Frederick Douglass Square Historic District and Mission Hill.
Frederick Douglass Square Historic District
Neighborhood
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The Frederick Douglass Square Historic District is a historic district roughly bounded by Hammond Street, Cabot Street, Windsor Street, and Westminster Street, in the Lower Roxbury area of Boston, Massachusetts.
Mission Hill
Suburb
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Mission Hill is a 3⁄4 square mile, primarily residential neighborhood of Boston, bordered by Roxbury, Jamaica Plain and Fenway-Kenmore and the town of Brookline.
Fenway-Kenmore
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The Fenway-Kenmore 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
- Categories: art museum, nonprofit organization, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: City of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, New England, United States, North America
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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 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: “Boston Museum of FIne Arts”
- French: “musée des Beaux-Arts de Boston”
- French: “Musée des beaux-arts de Boston”
- French: “Musée des Beaux-Arts”
- French: “Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”
- Galician: “Museo de Belas Artes de Boston”
- Georgian: “ბოსტონის სახვითი ხელოვნების მუზეუმი”
- Georgian: “სახვითი ხელოვნების მუზეუმი, ბოსტონი”
- German: “BMoFA”
- German: “Boston Museum of Fine Arts”
- German: “MoFA”
- 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: “Boston Museum of Fine Arts”
- Igbo: “MFA Boston”
- Igbo: “MFA”
- Igbo: “MFAB”
- Igbo: “Museum of Fine Arts Boston”
- 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: “BMoFA”
- Latvian: “Bostonas tēlotājmākslas muzejs”
- Latvian: “MoFA”
- 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: “MFA Boston”
- Portuguese: “MFA”
- Portuguese: “Museu de Belas Artes de Boston”
- Russian: “Бостонский музей изящных искусств”
- Russian: “Бостонский художественный музей”
- Russian: “Музей изящных искусств Бостона”
- Russian: “Музей изящных искусств”
- Russian: “Художественный музей Бостона”
- Serbian: “Музеј лепих уметности у Бостону”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Muzej lijepih umjetnosti”
- Slovenian: “BMoFA”
- Slovenian: “MoFA”
- Slovenian: “Museum of Fine Arts”
- Slovenian: “Muzej lepih umetnosti v Bostonu”
- Slovenian: “Muzej lepih umetnosti”
- Spanish: “MFA Boston”
- Spanish: “MFA”
- Spanish: “Museo de Bellas Artes (Boston)”
- 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: “లలిత కళల ప్రదర్శనశాల”
- 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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