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.
Exhibitions & Dates
Philip Guston Now
May 1 2022 - Sep 11 2022
125 paintings & 70 drawings from some 40 collections trace his career
Turner’s Modern World
Mar 27 2022 - Jul 10 2022
Explores Turner as an interpreter and champion for his generation
Touching Roots: Black Ancestral Legacies in the Americas
May 26 2022 - May 21 2023
Traces narratives of Blackness across the Atlantic world
The Obama Portraits - from the National Portrait Gallery
Sep 3 2022 - Oct 30 2022
A five-city tour of the portraits by artists Kehinde Wiley and Amy Sherald
Weng Family Collection of Chinese Painting: Art Rocks
Mar 26 2022 - May 3 2023
Celebrating a landmark gift of Chinese art
New Light: Encounters and Connections
Jul 3 2021 - Aug 22 2022
More than 60 works —new and old— in 21 “conversations”
LIFE Magazine and the Power of Photography
Oct 9 2022 - Jan 16 2023
Examines how the magazine shaped the modern idea of photography in the United States