From it's beginnings in 1876 with 5,600 works of art, the MFA now holds a comprehensive collection encompassing 500,000 works of art, spanning the history of artistic endeavor from ancient Egyptian to contemporary.
Major collections include Art of the Americas, Art of Europe from the Middle Ages through the mid-20th century, Asian Art since 4000 BC, African and Pacific Art, an encyclopedic collection of Antiquities, and Contemporary Art.
More than 100 works from the MFA’s collection
Nearly 30 works explore the splendor of items made for Jewish religious experience
30 works from the Dalí Museum in St. Petersburg FL, with European masterpieces from the MFA’s collection
Nearly 30 prints by one of Canada’s finest printmakers
12 large-format photographs plus contact prints chronicle the passage of time
At once imaginary and real, Bloom’s drawings conjure the spirit of the wilderness
Four contemporary artists reinvent conventional art forms
150 +/- works of these two iconic modernists juxtaposed
110+/- works in a wide range of media—prints, drawings, paintings, sculpture & illustrated books
175 works ranging in time from democracy’s origins in ancient Greece to today
Artworks by four artists made over centuries and across the Atlantic
74 photographs and accompanying inscriptions in a book handmade for his wife
20+/- Van Gogh works plus examples of influential earlier Dutch art & Japanese woodblock prints