Founded in 1870, the Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) in Boston, with more than 1.2 million visitors a year, is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world. The MFA collection encompasses nearly 500,000 works of art, covering antiquities across space and time, which makes it one of the richest collections in the Americas. Egyptian, Greek, African, Chinese, Japanese, European and American arts all have a large place in the museum, being carefully preserved in its 178 galleries. It is also home to 8,161 paintings including masterpieces by Katsushika Hokusai, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, Alphonse Maria Mucha, Paul Gauguin, Claude Monet and Paul Cézanne.
