The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, home to one of the country's finest collection of antiquities is expanding in more ways than one. Less than two weeks ago, the museum officially broke ground on a new $305-million expansion that will increase space by 27% when completed in 2010. So far the museum has raised $302-million toward its goal of $500-million to finance the project, in what has been called Boston's largest cultural fund-raising campaign ever.
Even as the museum begins the expansion, its art collection also continues to grow. It is reported that the MFA has accepted 1,842 new works of art in the past year. Included in these acquisitions, according to The Art Newspaper, is a superb Hittite silver drinking vessel dating to 1380 BC in the shape of a fist, and a gilded silver Byzantine pyxis from 6th-7th Century AD Syria.
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