The Museum is supported by almost 1,000 employees and hundreds of dedicated volunteers. MFA jobs span a broad range of careers, from entry-level to professional, including curatorial, conservation and collections management, development, public relations, marketing, education, member and visitor services, finance, and information technology.

Our excellent benefits package includes: A variety of managed health care options for individual, family, or domestic partner. Dental insurance for…

The study of provenance is a traditional part of art historical research, as an object’s chain of ownership can inform a scholarly understanding of the work of art itself: its function, condition, and its place in the history of taste and collecting.

The MFA’s procedures and policies relating to acquisitions and provenance

On Thursday, September 28, 2006, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) transferred 13 antiquities to Italy and signed an agreement with the Italian…

Conservation and Collections Management is an integral part of the Museum's stated purpose to hold its collections in trust for future generations.

Conservation Strategy A condition survey in 2004 showed that close to half of the ceramics in the Museum's Late Archaic and Early Classical Greek gallery were physically unstable. Many of the ceramics, assembled from fragments, were heavily restored before they came to the Museum in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. After more than a century, they were in dire need of conservation. All of the vessels required cleaning and many were plagued with failed adhesives, soluble salts, and discolored restoration paints.