The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

The history behind The Boston Museum of Fine Arts

What does the libraries at the museum contain? 

The libraries at the Fine Arts consist of a main library, 8 curatorial departmental libraries, and the Center for Netherlandish Art Library. Collectively they hold over 450,000 items. Including 60,000 art auction catalogs, and 150,000 periodicals and ephemera.

What is the museum about?

The crown jewel of Boston Arts is The Museum of Fine Arts. Its the 50th largest museum in the U.S. Today, the museum’s leaders continue to invest in contemporary art that draws this institution deeper into the 21st century and heightens the promise of its continued legacy. And they’re always updating galleries to better display work from across the centuries.

Last spring, the world-class museum was accused of racism after black middle school students said they were harangued and mistreated on a class trip by other museum patrons and a staff member who allegedly told the children: “No food, no drink, and no watermelon.”

Critics rightfully pounced, and the museum moved swiftly to contain the damage. MFA director Matthew Teitelbaum publicly apologized, banned two visitors, launched an internal investigation, and hired a law firm led by a former state attorney general to conduct an independent review. It might have ended there. But in this city still scarred by court-ordered desegregation and the turbulent busing of minority students to white suburbs in the 1970s, the museum — which welcomes 1.2 million visitors each year — took it as a wakeup call to get “woke.”

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