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  2. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Wikipedia

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    The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) 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.

  3. Boston Athenæum - Wikipedia

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    Many of the Trustees at the Boston Athenaeum participated in the movement to create a separate museum in Boston. In the years 1872–1876, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts exhibited in the Athenaeum's gallery space while awaiting completion of its new building's construction. There would be no more annual exhibitions; shelves were installed and the ...

  4. List of museums in Boston - Wikipedia

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    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Fenway–Kenmore: Art: Contains over 450,000 works of art Museum of Science, Boston: Downtown Boston: Science: Includes over 500 interactive exhibits, 100 animals, planetarium and IMAX theater Museum of the National Center of Afro-American Artists: Roxbury: Art

  5. List of museums in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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    Milton Art Museum: Milton: Norfolk: Greater Boston: Art: website, collections include fine art, limited prints, sculpture, photography and Asian art, located at Massasoit Community College: Minute Man National Historical Park: Lexington: Middlesex: Greater Boston: History: Visitor center exhibits and several famous historic sites of the ...

  6. Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Wikipedia

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    Most of the art pieces are unlabeled, and the generally low lighting is more akin to a private house than a modern art museum. In 1983, the museum was listed in the National Register of Historic Places. [1] [17] In 2013, the museum was designated a Boston Landmark by the Boston Landmarks Commission.

  7. Yan Liben - Wikipedia

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    New Book of Tang, vol. 100. Zizhi Tongjian, vols. 201, 202. External links. Works in the collection of the Boston Fine Arts Museum [permanent dead link ...

  8. School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts - Wikipedia

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    The school was founded in 1876 under the name School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA). [2] From 1876 to 1909, the school was housed in the basement of the original Museum building in Copley Square. When the Museum moved to Huntington Avenue in 1909, the School moved into a separate, temporary structure to the west of the main building.

  9. The Fog Warning - Wikipedia

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    The Boston Fine Art Museum gives this description: The Fog Warning is a painting with a narrative, though its tale is disturbing rather than charming. As indicated by the halibut in his dory, the fisherman in this picture has been successful. But the hardest task of the day, the return to the main ship, is still ahead of him.