ABSTRACT
The Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), Boston is at 465 Huntington Avenue in Boston, and welcomes over a million visitors a year. The Museum is comprehensive and arguably the most important art museum in the US to the north of New York and to the east of Chicago, and one of the five most important in the US. The history of MFA, Boston is unusual, in that it began with a collection looking for an institution to house it, rather than an institution looking to build a collection within it. Subsequently, the need for a museum was developed out of Massachusetts’ place as the intellectual and educational heartland of the US. In common with Yosemite and Liberty, MFA, Boston has no specific strategy for encouraging bonding, although like the National Park Service it encourages independent visits in groups of friends and families.
