An art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, often called the MFA. With more than 450,000 works of art, it holds one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.
The Museum of Fine Arts, often called MFA Boston or the MFA, is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It holds 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works of art, one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas, and is the 20th-largest art museum in the world by gallery area.
The museum was founded in 1870 in Copley Square and moved to its current location in the Fenway in 1909. It receives more than 1.2 million visitors a year.