Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston: How to Visit and What to Do Nearby

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston occupies a neoclassical building on Huntington Avenue in the Fenway–Kenmore neighborhood, housing over 500,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years. The museum holds one of the largest collections of Japanese art outside Japan, with over 100,000 objects, and possesses the largest collection of Claude Monet paintings outside France, with 35 canvases. The Art of the Americas Wing, opened in 2010, contains 53 galleries spanning pre-Columbian to contemporary periods. The museum's collection of Egyptian antiquities includes artifacts from a joint excavation with Harvard at Giza. is just one of many options in Boston. Major attractions worth considering include Beacon Hill, Boston Harborwalk, and New England Aquarium.