Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) Other Ideas:Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum; Harvard Museum of Natural History; American Textile History Museum; Old State House Museum; Charles Hayden Planetarium The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is an elegant and impressive space filled with captivating masterpieces from around the world.
The museum offers several hands-on art and drop-in programs for families and children. Mfaboston. Ori Gersht: History Repeating Play Gersht's photos and videos startle, seduce, and sometimes explode.
On view August 28, 2012 - January 6, 2013. Learn more here: She Who Tells a Story The provocative works in "She Who Tells a Story: Women Photographers from Iran and the Arab World" challenge perceptions of Middle Eastern identity. Explore the exhibition: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States.
It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas. With more than one million visitors a year, it is (as of 2013[update]) the 62nd most-visited art museum in the world. History[edit] 1870–1907[edit] Welcomemfashop.com. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Collections. Architectural History. Current Exhibitions. Interactive Tours. Museum Of Fine Arts. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Collection. The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston houses a collection of 450,000 objects from around the world and across the ages.
The Art of the Ancient World collection ranks among the premier encyclopedic collections in the world, representing more than 7,000 years of art from Nubia, Egypt, the Near East, Cyprus, Anatolia, Greece, and Italy. Also noteworthy are the museum's holdings in Asian art, with works dating from 4,000 BC and encompassing Japanese, Chinese, and Indian painting and sculpture, Japanese prints and metalwork, and Chinese, Korean, and Vietnamese ceramics. The American collections include Paul Revere's silver, New England furniture, and a selection of paintings from all eras of America's history.
Selections from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collections are represented in ARTstor with over 13,000 images. The museum has also shared more than 22,000 photographs documenting archaeological excavations at the Giza pyramids from 1905 to 1942. Collection information. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to launch its first online catalogue, Paintings of the Americas. BOSTON.- Just in time for Presidents’ Day, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will debut on February 20 its first online catalogue, Paintings of the Americas.
The free digital publication, available here, will feature a selection of more than 400 paintings from its collection of nearly 2,000 (including new acquisitions) created by artists from the 17th through the 20th centuries. The online catalogue was produced to complement the Museum’s Art of the Americas Wing. This is the first publication in a generation to document the MFA’s world-renowned holdings of American paintings, along with those that represent the broader spectrum of the Americas. Museum of Fine Arts in Boston opens new Art of the Americas Wing. Exterior improvements continue at the museum — part of its ongoing efforts to embrace the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Back Bay Fens, surround the building with greenery, and in so doing, help to rejuvenate the museum's neighborhood.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. School of the Museum of Fine Arts. School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (also known as the Museum School or SMFA) is an undergraduate and graduate college located in Boston, Massachusetts, dedicated to the visual arts.
It is affiliated with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and offers undergraduate and graduate degree programs in partnership with Tufts University and Northeastern University. SMFA is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD), a consortium of several dozen leading art schools in the United States. Overview[edit] The school does not have a foundations program, but it does require all new students to take a freshman seminar. Encouraged to build an individual program of interdisciplinary study, students are not asked to declare a major, but by choosing among in-depth courses in a dozen disciplines, students are free to concentrate in a medium of their choice.