A Museum of and for the world, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, celebrates 50 years of traveling exhibitions.
Since 1973, our traveling exhibition program has partnered with museums and cultural institutions around the world to share 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播 collections and scholarship.
Over the last decade, 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播 traveling exhibitions have welcomed more than 15 million global visitors. We invite you to experience the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播 in Boston and around the world.
Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions
Dutch Art in a Global Age: Masterpieces from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
In the 17th century Dutch merchants sailed across seas and oceans, joining trade networks that stretched from Asia to the Americas and Africa. The unprecedented movement of goods, ideas, and people fueled the economy and sparked an artistic boom. 鈥淒utch Art in a Global Age鈥 presents highlights from the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 collection with an innovative thesis: arranged thematically, the exhibition explores the intersections between art, commercial networks, and colonial expansion. See paintings by Rembrandt, Frans Hals, Gerrit Dou, Jacob van Ruisdael, Rachel Ruysch, and other celebrated artists, complemented by exquisite silver and ceramic decorative arts and superb impressions from the Museum鈥檚 world-renowned print collection.
Raleigh, North Carolina
September 16, 2023鈥揓anuary 7, 2024
Fort Worth, Texas
November 10, 2024鈥揊ebruary 9, 2025
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Hokusai: Inspiration and Influence鈥攆rom the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Thanks to the popularity of the instantly recognizable Great Wave鈥攃ited everywhere from book covers and Lego sets to anime and emoji鈥 Katsushika Hokusai (1760鈥1849) has become one of the most famous and influential artists in the world. This major exhibition takes a new approach to the work of the versatile master, pairing more than 100 of his woodblock prints, paintings, and illustrated books from the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 collection with more than 200 works by his teachers, students, rivals, and admirers. Explore Hokusai鈥檚 impact through the centuries and around the globe, on artists from Winslow Homer and Yoshitomo Nara to Loi虉s Mailou Jones and John Cederquist.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
March 26鈥揓uly 16, 2023
Seattle, Washington
October 19, 2023鈥揓anuary 21, 2024
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Tattoos in Japanese Prints from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Some of the world鈥檚 most popular tattoo motifs trace back to early 19th-century Edo (present-day Tokyo), where tattoo artists took inspiration from color woodblock prints known as ukiyo-e. Today, the global popularity of tattoos has brought renewed attention to the centuries-old Japanese tradition. Drawn from the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 world-class collection of Japanese art, 鈥淭attoos in Japanese Prints鈥 looks closely at the social background, iconography, and visual splendor of tattoos through the printed media that helped carry them from the streets of Edo-period Japan to 21st-century tattoo shops all over the world.
San Francisco, California
May 31鈥揂ugust 18, 2019
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
November 20, 2021鈥揊ebruary 20, 2022
Jacksonville, Florida
October 21, 2023鈥揓anuary 14, 2024
Fabric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Quilts and coverlets have a unique capacity to tell stories: their tactile, intricate mode of creation and traditional use in the home impart the deeply personal narratives of their creators, and the many histories they express reveal a complex portrait America. Upending expectations about quilt displays, which are traditionally organized by region, form, or motif, 鈥淔abric of a Nation: American Quilt Stories鈥 is a loosely chronological presentation that voices multiple perspectives. See and hear from a diverse group of artists, educators, academics, and activists, including both known and unidentified female and male urban and rural makers; immigrants; and Black, Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and LGBTQIA+ Americans. Celebrate the artistry and intricacy of quilts and coverlets and the lives they document while also considering the complicated legacies ingrained in the fabric of American life.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
October 10, 2021鈥揓anuary 17, 2022
Los Angeles, California
November 17, 2022鈥揗arch 12, 2023
Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens
Jacksonville, Florida
July 5鈥揝eptember 29, 2024
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Thinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale
鈥淭hinking Small: Dutch Art to Scale鈥 explores an intriguing selection of small-scale works in various media from the 17th-century Netherlands that were designed to elicit slow, intimate, and contemplative engagement on the part of their original audiences. In their size or intricacy, the objects compel viewers to reconsider their relationship with the world around them. This exhibition is part of a series of collaborations between the Center for Netherlandish Art (CNA) and its academic partners that draws on the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 collection of Dutch and Flemish art in new ways, bringing diverse perspectives to the forefront while showcasing cross-disciplinary scholarship. Curated by graduate students at Yale University and organized by the Yale University Art Gallery in partnership with the Center for Netherlandish Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
New Haven, Connecticut
February 17鈥揓uly 23, 2023
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
November 18, 2023鈥揘ovember 3, 2024
Recent Traveling Exhibitions
Ancient Nubia
This exhibition of magnificent jewelry, pottery, sculpture, metalwork, and more from the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 collection of ancient Nubian art examines power, representation, and cultural biases in the ancient world, in the early 20th century and today. The majestic display of art and objects confronts past misinterpretations and offers new ways of understanding Nubia鈥檚 history and contemporary relevance. Undertaken between 1913 and 1932, the Harvard University鈥揃oston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition was among the first to conduct scientific excavations in Sudan, leading the way in recovering ancient Nubian material culture. As a result, the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播 houses the largest and finest Nubian collection outside Khartoum.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Ancient Nubia Now
Boston, Massachusetts
October 13, 2019鈥揓anuary 20, 2020
Nubia: Treasure of Ancient Africa
Saint Louis, Missouri
April 18鈥揂ugust 22, 2021
Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan
Los Angeles, California
October 12, 2022鈥揂pril 3, 2023
Ancient Nubia: Art of the 25th Dynasty from the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Atlanta, Georgia
June 2鈥揝eptember 3, 2023
Ansel Adams in Our Time
鈥淎nsel Adams in Our Time鈥 traces the iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902鈥84), presenting some of his most celebrated photographs鈥攆rom the symphonic view of snow-dusted peaks in The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942) to the aerial shot of a knotted roadway in Freeway Interchange, Los Angeles (1967). The exhibition looks both backward and forward in time: Adams鈥檚 black-and-white photographs are displayed alongside prints by 19th-century government survey photographers who greatly influenced the artist, as well as work by contemporary artists whose modern-day concerns about the environment, land rights, and the use and misuse of natural resources point directly to Adams鈥檚 legacy.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Boston, Massachusetts
December 13, 2018鈥揊ebruary 24, 2019
Bentonville, Arkansas
September 19, 2020鈥揓anuary 3, 2021
Portland, Oregon
May 5鈥揂ugust 1, 2021
San Francisco, California
April 8鈥揓uly 23, 2023
The Heroes鈥擟hronicles of the Warriors: Japanese Swords x Ukiyo-e from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Of the 100,000 works of Japanese art in the 澳门六合彩开奖现场直播鈥檚 collection, the roughly 50,000 ukiyo-e prints and close to 600 swords are known to be among the highest caliber in the world, both in quantity and quality. This exhibition uniquely highlights the Museum鈥檚 parallel collections of Japanese swords and tsuba in juxtaposition with select ukiyo-e prints. With 27 tsuba and 20 swords carefully selected by sword expert Harada Kazutoshi, 鈥淭he Heroes鈥 offers a novel exploration of iconic stories, characters, and moments in history, as prints depicting warriors are brought to life by the presence of their actual armaments.
Tokyo, Japan
January 21鈥揗arch 25, 2022
The Niigata Bandaijima Art Museum
Niigata, Japan
April 23鈥揓une 19, 2022
Shizuoka, Japan
July 2鈥揂ugust 28, 2022
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art
Kobe, Japan
September 10鈥揘ovember 20, 2022
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For information about hosting traveling exhibitions, connect with us at travelingexhibitions@mfa.org.