art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
  • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
  • MFA Boston
  • MFA
  • MFAB
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    Museum of Fine Arts Boston
    art museum in Boston, Massachusetts, United States
    • Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    • Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    • MFA Boston
    • MFA
    • MFAB

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    logo image
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Logo.jpg
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    director / manager
    Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III
    end time
    1996
    1 reference
    stated in
    Dictionary of Art Historians
    reference URL
    http://arthistorians.info/vermeulec
    retrieved
    24 May 2019
    quotation
    When the Museum's director, Perry Rathbone (q.v.) was relieved of his duties during the 1970 centennial celebration because of the acquisition of a stolen Raphael, Vermeule assumed the acting directorship. It was during his time as director that the Museum purchased an important work, Cézanne's last self-portrait. For the 1973-1974 academic year Vermeule was a visiting faculty at Yale University. In 1978 he received an appointment at Boston College. Vermeule's tenure as curator was marked by the acquisition of two large vases portraying the fall of Troy and the death of Agamemnon, a Roman portrait of an old man, and a Minoan gold double ax. He retired in 1996 and was succeeded by John Herrmann. (English)
    Malcolm Rogers
    start time
    1994
    end time
    2015
    1 reference
    reference URL
    http://www.wbur.org/artery/2015/06/24/malcolm-rogers-mfa-retirement-celebrations
    title
    MFA Celebrates Malcolm Rogers' Final Days As Director With Free Admission And Gelato (English)
    publication date
    24 June 2015
    publisher
    WBUR-FM
    total assets
    1,324,479,765 United States dollar
    point in time
    2022
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    1,431,187,770 United States dollar
    point in time
    2021
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    total revenue
    113,259,858 United States dollar
    point in time
    2016
    1 reference
    Charity Navigator ID (obsolete)
    4137
    retrieved
    13 January 2019
    148,263,439 United States dollar
    point in time
    2022
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    137,057,905 United States dollar
    point in time
    2021
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    significant event
    claim for restitution of an artwork
    point in time
    2017
    1 reference
    reference URL
    https://www.jta.org/2017/05/04/united-states/boston-museum-pays-heirs-for-18th-century-figurines-to-settle-holocaust-restitution-claim
    title
    Boston museum pays heirs for 18th-century figurines to settle Holocaust restitution claim (English)
    publication date
    4 May 2017
    language of work or name
    English
    retrieved
    13 May 2025
    author name string
    Penny Schwartz
    quotation
    MAY 4, 2017 11:54 AMBOSTON (JTA) — The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has settled a Holocaust-era restitution claim with the estate of a Jewish collector that allows the museum to retain seven pieces of 18th-century German porcelain that were sold in Berlin in 1937 during Nazi-era persecution.The settlement for an undisclosed amount of money to the heirs of the estate of Emma Budge was announced Wednesday by the museum. (English)
    restitution of Nazi-looted art
    point in time
    2022
    1 reference
    stated in
    MFA returns painting stolen from Jewish collector during WWII
    title
    MFA returns painting stolen from Jewish collector during WWII | WBUR News (English)
    publication date
    27 February 2022
    retrieved
    13 May 2025
    reference URL
    https://web.archive.org/web/20220227035025/https://www.wbur.org/news/2022/01/25/mfa-returns-painting-stolen-from-jewish-collector-during-wwii
    quotation
    When Nazi forces invaded Hungary in 1944, the Jewish politician and art collector Ferenc Chorin and his family were lucky to escape with their lives. Chorin’s collection of paintings, which he left in a vault in the Hungarian Commercial Bank of Pest, was less fortunate. The entire collection disappeared from the vault in the course of the war — likely looted during the Siege of Budapest in 1945.Nearly 80 years later, Chorin’s family located one of the paintings, “View of Beverwijk,” in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. The museum announced this month that it had reached an agreement to return the painting to the family. (English)
    claim for restitution of an artwork
    point in time
    2007
    1 reference
    stated in
    Holocaust historians blast MFA stance in legal dispute; Insist pressures of era led to painting's sale
    retrieved
    13 May 2025
    reference URL
    https://www.lootedart.com/news.php?r=N2MD3I543731
    quotation
    Holocaust historians are criticizing the Boston Museum of Fine Arts for its stance in an escalating legal dispute over the ownership of a valuable 1913 painting. The work, Oskar Kokoschka's "Two Nudes (Lovers)," has hung at the MFA almost continuously since 1973.The dispute began in March 2007, when attorneys for Claudia Seger-Thomschitz, an Austrian woman who says she is the rightful owner of "Two Nudes," approached the museum demanding its return. Lawyers for Seger-Thomschitz, an heir to Jewish art collector Oskar Reichel, say Reichel sold the painting under duress in Nazi-occupied 1939 Vienna.But the MFA says that Reichel sold the painting voluntarily and that it never passed through Nazi hands. After the museum conducted its own research into the painting's history, it presented its findings to Seger-Thomschitz's lawyers and requested that she drop her claim for restitution. When she refused, the museum filed suit against her in January in US District Court for the District of Massachusetts to establish legal title to the painting (English)
    donations
    60,830,658 United States dollar
    point in time
    2022
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    62,410,288 United States dollar
    point in time
    2021
    1 reference
    stated in
    Nonprofit Explorer
    retrieved
    1 November 2024
    social media followers
    407,285
    X numeric user ID
    38213768
    point in time
    7 January 2021
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    384,110
    X numeric user ID
    38213768
    point in time
    10 May 2018
    0 references
    408,709
    X numeric user ID
    38213768
    point in time
    26 February 2022
    0 references
    408,016
    X numeric user ID
    38213768
    point in time
    7 February 2023
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    has part(s)
    Q99533722
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    Commons gallery
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    Commons category
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    Identifiers

    ISIL
    US-32
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    ISNI
    0000000122918830
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    BAnQ authority ID
    0000072372
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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    NORAF ID
    90183290
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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    CANTIC ID
    981058514580406706
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Boston (Massachusetts). Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
    1 reference
    VIAF cluster ID
    151846308
    National Library of Spain SpMaBN ID (BNE v1.0)
    XX85717
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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    Bibliothèque nationale de France ID
    11866613c
    subject named as
    Museum of fine arts (Boston, Mass.)
    alternative name
    MFA
    Boston museum of fine arts
    1 reference
    stated in
    BnF authorities
    retrieved
    26 August 2015
    Canadiana Name Authority ID
    ncf10460883
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    GND ID
    38524-4
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    FAST ID
    533093
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Bosuton Bijutsukan
    MFA
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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    National Library of Greece ID
    287866
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Βοστώνη)
    alternative name
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών (Βοστώνη)
    Βοστώνη (Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες Αμερικής). Μουσείο Καλών Τεχνών
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    J9U ID
    987007526377305171
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    Library of Congress authority ID
    n79058410
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Bosuton Bijutsukan
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
    MFA
    ボストン美術館
    名古屋ボストン美術館
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    National Library of Latvia ID
    000093399
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Bostona, Amerikas Savienotās Valstis)
    ostona (Amerikas Savienotās Valstis). Museum of Fine Arts
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    National Library of Ireland ID
    vtls000331124
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
    alternative name
    MFA
    Bosuton Bijutsukan
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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    NDL Authority ID
    00277364
    subject named as
    ボストン美術館
    alternative name
    ボストン ビジュツカン
    Bosuton Bijutsukan
    MFA
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    NACSIS-CAT author ID
    DA00275756
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Bosuton Bijutsukan
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    ボストン美術館（ボストン ビジュツカン）
    1 reference
    stated in
    CiNii Research
    CiNii Research ID
    1140282266754881152
    retrieved
    15 February 2023
    NL CR AUT ID
    ko2003165022
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Massachusetts)
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    NSK ID
    000011566
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
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    NUKAT ID
    n98065811
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    MFA
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    National Library of Poland MMS ID
    9810692668305606
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston)
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    MFA
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    Libris-URI
    20dhptjl2q18fv4
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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    SELIBR ID
    358158
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
    alternative name
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
    Museum of Fine Arts (Boston, Mass.)
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    IdRef ID
    06171447X
    subject named as
    Museum of fine arts (Boston, Mass.)
    alternative name
    Boston (Mass) -- Museum of Fine Arts
    Boston Museum of fine arts
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    Library of Congress Classification
    N520
    subject named as
    Fine Arts--Visual arts--Art museums, galleries, etc.--Special countries and special museums--United States--Boston, Mass.--Museum of Fine Arts
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    Bibale ID
    43333
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    FactGrid item ID
    Q254891
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    LibraryThing author ID
    artsbostonmuseumoffi
    subject named as
    Boston Museum of Fine Arts
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    NLA Trove people ID
    1273952
    subject named as
    Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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    Nomisma ID
    mfa_boston
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    PermID
    4296747472
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    ROR ID
    00nsa3x45
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    SNAC ARK ID
    w6290xtg
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    Songkick venue ID
    18065
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    Tate artist ID
    13881
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    Te Papa agent ID
    6866
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    vici.org ID
    58118
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