Level LG (Lower Ground) holds our Ancient Americas galleries, which include ceramics and metalwork from over three dozen cultures that flourished across North, Central, and South America before European contact ship models and the decorative arts and paintings of the earliest European settlers in New England and our Native North American Art gallery, which illustrates Indigenous experiences of cultural exchange and resilience. Visitors to the Art of the Americas galleries encounter masterworks that span geography, culture, and media. Shaped by global contexts of migration, war, commerce, politics, and cultural exchange, the works on view hold many stories and reflect a wide range of ideas about the Americas and Americanness-as a place, an identity, and an aspiration. Spanning 3,000 years, from the ancient civilizations of Mesoamerica to the modern art capitals of Mexico City and New York, these objects embody the essential human desire to create meaning and beauty through art and craft, a drive shared by artists free and enslaved, trained and self-taught, immigrant and indigenous. The Art of the Americas department studies, presents, and cares for the paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts made throughout North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean by artists from many cultures and nations. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Main navigation The Heritage Fund for a Diverse Collection.Request Images for Study and Personal Use.Furniture and Frame Conservation Laboratory.Conservation and Collections Management.Cyrus Dallin’s ‘Appeal to the Great Spirit’.Curatorial Study Hall Pilot Program and Materials.

Current and Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions.

Egyptian revival furniture photos