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The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the largest museums in the United States, and contains one of the largest permanent museum collections in the Americas. The museum was founded in 1870 and its current location dates to 1909. In addition to its curatorial undertakings, the museum is affiliated with an art academy, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, and a sister museum, the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts, in Nagoya, Japan. The current director of the museum is Malcolm Rogers.

History
In the mid-2000s, the museum embarked on a major renovation project. This includes the construction of a new wing for the arts of the Americas, redesigned and expanded education facilities, and extensive renovations of its European galleries, visitor services, and conservation facilities.
The new wing is was designed in a restrained, contemporary style by the London architectural firm of Foster and Partners, under the directorship of Lord Norman Foster. Groundbreaking for the addition took place in 2006. In the process, the present garden courtyard will be transformed into a climate-controlled year-round glass enclosure. Landscape architects Gustafson Guthrie Nichol[1] have designed new entries, gardens, access roads, and interior courtyards.

2000s expansion
Some highlights of the MFA's collection include:
Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?) (1897)
The Museum of Fine Arts is renowned for its collection of artifacts from ancient Egypt
King Mycerinus (Menkaura) and his queen
European Paintings and Sculptures at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
The Museum also maintains one of the largest on-line art catalogs in the world at http://www.mfa.org, with information about over 327,000 items from its collection available on-line, many with an accompanying photograph.
As a result of the ongoing expansion of the museum, a number of standing exhibits are still in storage.

Egyptian artifacts including sculptures, sarcophogi, and jewelry.
French impressionist and post-impressionist works including Paul Gauguin's Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? (D'où venons-nous? Que sommes-nous? Où allons-nous?) as well as works by Manet, Renoir, Degas, Monet, Van Gogh, Cézanne and many others.
18th and 19th century American art, including many works by John Singleton Copley, Winslow Homer and John Singer Sargent.
the Morse collection of 5,000 pieces of Japanese pottery, part of the largest museum collection of Japanese works outside of Japan.
the Gund Gallery which hosts temporary exhibits while a Japanese garden provides a quiet, contemplative space outside the museum itself.
frequently hosted special exhibits, the most popular one being the "Art of Star Wars" show in 2002, which attracted over 1,652,000 visitors. Collection and exhibits

Sylvester Rosa Koehler (1837-1900) First Curator of Prints
Fitzroy Carrington (born 1869) Curator of prints
William George Constable (1887-1976), Curator
Ernest Fenollosa (1853-1908) - Curator of Oriental Art (1890-1896)
Okakura Kakuzō (1863-1913) - Curator of Oriental Art (1904-1913)
Ananda Coomaraswamy (1877-1947) - Curator of Oriental Art
Robert Treat Paine (d. 1965) - Curator of Japanese Art (1963-1965)