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The Museum of Fine Arts (or MFA) in Boston, Massachusetts, is the fourth largest museum in the United States.

It contains more than 450,000 works of art, making it one of the most comprehensive collections in the Americas.

With more than one million visitors a year, it is the 55th most-visited art museum in the world.

An art museum or art gallery is a building or space for the exhibition of art, usually visual art.

Museums can be public or private, but what distinguishes a museum is the ownership of a collection.

Paintings are the most commonly displayed art objects; however, sculptures, decorative arts, furniture, textiles, costumes, drawings, pastels, watercolors, collages, prints, artist's books, photographs, and installation art are also regularly shown.

Although primarily concerned with providing a space to show works of visual art, art galleries are sometimes used to host other artistic activities, such as performance arts, music concerts, or poetry readings.

Contemporary art is the art of today, produced by artists who are living in the twenty-first century.

Contemporary art provides an opportunity to reflect on contemporary society and the issues relevant to ourselves, and the world around us.

Contemporary artists work in a globally influenced, culturally diverse, and technologically advancing world.

Their art is a dynamic combination of materials, methods, concepts, and subjects that challenge traditional boundaries and defy easy definition.

Diverse and eclectic, contemporary art as a whole is distinguished by the very lack of a uniform, organizing principle, ideology, or ‘ism.’ Contemporary art is part of a cultural dialogue that concerns larger contextual frameworks such as personal and cultural identity, family, community, and nationality.

A Master of Fine Arts (MFA or M.F.A) is a graduate degree that typically requires two to three years of postgraduate study after a bachelor's degree (Bachelor of Fine Arts), though the term of study varies by country or university.

The MFA is a creative degree usually awarded as a terminal degree in fine arts, including visual arts, creative writing, graphic design, photography, filmmaking, dance, theatre, other performing arts—or in some cases, theatre management or arts administration.

Coursework is primarily of an applied or performing nature with the program often culminating in a major work or performance.

A work of art, artwork, art piece, piece of art or art object is an aesthetic physical item or artistic creation.

Apart from "work of art", which may be used of any work regarded as art in its widest sense, including works from literature and music, these terms apply principally to tangible, portable forms of visual art: