Best of Boston

If you want to see the art of ancient Greece and the Pharaohs of yore, or the works of John Singer Sargent and Ansel Adams, or even contemporary portraits of the Obamas, there are only three letters you need to know: M, F, and A. Long the city’s largest museum, with nearly 500,000 works of art and a nonstop parade of exhibitions and traveling shows, it remains a must-visit institution and a local treasure for all Bostonians.