Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (English: Museum of Fine Arts) ?, in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the most important museums in the United States and contains the second largest in the country permanent collection of the Museum after Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The current director of the museum is Malcolm Rogers.

It was created in 1870 and opened in 1876, with much of their collections taken from the gallery of the Boston Athenaeum. It is located on Huntington Avenue in Boston since 1909. In addition to its conservative purpose, the museum is associated with an art academy, the School of Fine Arts in Boston, and a sister museum in Nagoya / Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya, Japan.

Some of the most important sections of the museum of the museum are:

Egyptian antiquities, including sculptures, sarcophagi and jewelry.
old European painting, with masterpieces by Rogier van der Weyden, El Greco, Velázquez, Jacob Jordaens, Rembrandt ...
Impressionist and post-Impressionist French, including paintings by Paul Gauguin as Where did we come? Where we go? (D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?) And works by Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne, among others.
American painters of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including many works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.
Edward S. Morse collection of 5,000 pieces of Japanese ceramics, part of the largest collection of Japanese works outside Japan.
The Gund Gallery, which houses temporary exhibitions with a Japanese garden outside the museum itself.