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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) the 62nd most-visited art museum in the world.Founded in 1870, the museum moved to its current location in 1909. The museum is affiliated with an art academy, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a sister museum, the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in Nagoya, Japan. The director of the museum is Malcolm Rogers.
The museum was founded in 1870 and opened in 1876, with most of its collection taken from the Boston Athenæum Art Gallery. Francis Davis Millet was instrumental in starting the Art School attached to the museum and getting Emil Otto Grundmann (1844–1890) appointed as its first director.The museum was originally located in a highly ornamented brick Gothic Revival building designed by Joh ...
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