Museums in Boston
United States · 2 museums
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World Museum Guide covers 2 museums in Boston, United States — with verified admission prices, opening hours, and highlights for each. 1 offers free standard admission.
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924) spent thirty years assembling one of the finest private art collections in America, then built a Venetian Gothic palace in Boston to house it exactly as she wanted it to be seen. The museum opened in 1903 and has changed almost nothing since Gardner's death — her will stipulated that no object could be moved or sold, on pain of selling the entire collection to Harvard and dispersing it.
⏱ 90 minutes
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The MFA opened in Copley Square in 1876 and moved to its current Beaux-Arts building on Huntington Avenue in 1909. Major additions by I. M. Pei and Foster + Partners have expanded the campus dramatically.
⏱ 3–4 hours