Museum of Fine Arts Boston Parking and Other Information

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts, ranked only second to New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art in the country, has an extensive collection of the finest artworks in the world. There you can find treasured iconic works such as Renoir's Le Bal a Bougival, Whistler's Girl in a White Dress, Gilbert Stuart's Athenaeum Head portrait of George Washington, works by Van Gogh, Gauguin, Degas and more. Besides, the museum also collects artworks from oversea artists as well as artists of medieval and Renaissance times.

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is a Greek temple with a classical looking facade. Now the MFA's Art of the Americas Wing is under construction which has cost almost $465 million. In the almost 200 galleries, some worldwide heritages like French chateaux, a 9th-century Spanish chapel, Assyrian seals, full-size Japanese temple, Egyptian mummies and more are displayed. Does it sound attractive to you? If you want to know more about the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, please visit:

Museum of Fine Arts Boston Homepage

http://www.mfa.org/

How to get to the Museum of Fine Arts Boston? Driving to the MFA might have some challenges due to the maze of one-way streets around The Fenway. To avoid wandering around, you had better approach it along Huntington Avenue to Museum Road. Input your starting point, you can get driving directions with Mapquest.:

Driving Directions with Mapquest

http://www.mapquest.com/maps?2a=465+Huntington+Avenue&2c=Boston&2s=MA&2z=02115

Visitors to the museum are encouraged to take mass transportation especially during school vacation weeks and popular exhibitions. The museum is easy to reach by MBTA. You can either take the Green Line "E" train to the "Museum of Fine Arts" stop or the Orange Line train to the "Ruggles" stop. Pricing of MBTA begins at $2. Detailed price info can be found at subway stations. Another option is the Bus. You can take the 39 bus to the "Museum of Fine Arts" stop, or the 8, 47, or CT2 buses to the "Ruggles" stop.

Want to know more about Boston's public transportation system? Please visit:

Boston MBTA

http://www.mbta.com/

Where to park? If you prefer to drive there, be prepared that parking spaces near the MFA is in high demand. In general, visitors to the museum have three parking options. They are respectively the Huntington Lot, the Fenway Lot and the Museum Road Garage. All of them have entrances on Museum Road. You can see the locations of the three lots in map offered in the following link:

MFA Parking

http://www.mfa.org/visit/getting-here/parking

The Huntington lot provides closer parking to the Huntington Avenue Entrance. And you can get into the Fenway parking lot easier from the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance than the Huntington Avenue Entrance. All of the parking lots are automated. You can pay at the lobby of the State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance, the garage lobby, or at the exit lanes of the lots.

Parking rates of the three lots are $6 each half hour, and the daily maximum is $24. For members, they only need to pay $4 each half hour, and the daily maximum is $14. Valet parking is also available since November 2010 for credit card holders. The flat fee is $17 for members and $27 for nonmembers.

As for evening parking, it's available from Monday through Friday. Parking rate is $6 each half hour and the maximum is $16 per night. For members, the maximum is only $11 per night.

Some easy tips for your convenience: Street parking is not plentiful near the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. And most of the street parking spaces are governed by 2-hour meters. They are in high demand. Some artworks in the museum might be in storage or in other museums. You may need to check with the museum in advance if you want to see a particular work. If possible, come visiting on weekdays. Pick up a map and get information from the Sharf Visitor Center before starting your tour.