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Gallery Updates
As we work to update the Museum’s galleries and install new exhibitions, from time to time, galleries may be closed temporarily for ongoing…
We’re thrilled to welcome you and your group back to the MFA! It has been a while, so please review these resources and tips. You may find answers to…
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Event Spaces
Most of the Museum's ticketed programs take place in or meet at one of the following four venues. For more information on the best entrance and route…
Dedicated in October 1988, Tenshin-en, or the “Garden of the Heart of Heaven,” is a contemplative Japanese garden.
Inclusion at the MFA
At the MFA, we take a 360-degree view of inclusion, from our visitors and audiences to our staff, leaders, and volunteers. To cultivate an inclusive…
These galleries feature paintings and decorative arts produced during the period of the American Revolution and the creation of the United States, in…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, September 2023
The conservation studio set up in the Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) closed to the pubic in December 2022, dismantled to make way for a…
Conservation in Action: Japanese Buddhist Sculptures, April 2022
Treatment of two more sculptures, Amida, the Buddha of Infinite Light and the elaborate Dainichi, the Buddha of Infinite Illumination with mandorla…
The Walter Ames Compton, MD Gallery (Gallery 280) was transformed into a public conservation studio in the fall of 2018, to allow treatment of the…