Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Opens New Wing
Foster + Partners inserted “a crystal spine” into the MFA’s two main volumes to create the four-floor Art of the Americas Wing, which opened to the public on Saturday.
On Saturday, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston cut the ribbon on its new Art of the Americas wing, an 133,491-square-foot addition that includes 53 (yes, 53!) new galleries, more than 500 newly acquired artworks, and one cavernous, light-filled courtyard. The $345 million expansion, shepherded to a triumphant climax by MFA director Malcolm Rogers, required nothing short of an architectural reimagining of the 140-year-old museum.
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