Current and Upcoming Traveling Exhibitions

Through Traveling Exhibitions, the MFA is able to engage with audiences around the world. We invite you to experience our collections by visiting an MFA Traveling Exhibition at one of our global partner institutions.

Exhibitions

World of the Pharaohs

This exhibition features more than 200 objects spanning 3,000 years of ancient Egyptian history, including monumental sculptures of King Ramesses II and the female pharaoh Hatshepsut; funerary reliefs, stelae and false doors from the tombs of elite officials; temple offerings; burial goods; and jewelry, amulets and cosmetic vessels used in everyday life. The rich variety of material offers visitors a window into ancient Egyptian beliefs about religion, kingship, the economy, the home and family, and life after death. Curated by Denise Doxey, curator, Ancient Egyptian, Nubian, and Near Eastern Art.

Graciela Iturbide

This exhibition includes 140 works by Graciela Iturbide, one of Latin America’s most important and influential photographers today. Her photographs not only bear witness to Mexican society but express an intense personal and poetic lyricism about her native country. Curated by Kristen Gresh, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh Curator of Photographs.

Ansel Adams in Our Time

“Ansel Adams in Our Time” traces the iconic visual legacy of Ansel Adams (1902–1984), presenting some of his most celebrated prints, from a symphonic view of snow-dusted peaks in The Tetons and Snake River, Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming (1942) to an aerial shot of a knotted roadway in Freeway Interchange, Los Angeles (1967). The exhibition looks both backward and forward in time: his black-and-white photographs are displayed alongside prints by some of the 19th-century government survey photographers who greatly influenced Adams, as well as work by contemporary artists—such as Mark Klett, Trevor Paglen, Catherine Opie, and Abelardo Morell—whose modern-day concerns centered on the environment, land rights, and the use and misuse of natural resources point directly to Adams’s legacy. Curated by Karen Haas, Lane Senior Curator of Photographs.

Art and Power: From Pharaohs to Daimyōs. Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

“Art and Power: from Pharaohs to Daimyōs. Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” presents about 60 masterworks in the MFA collection from cultures all over the world, examining the ways in which these objects have underscored concepts of kingship, displayed the might of particular rulers, and glorified individual courts, which were often centers of a culture’s social and artistic life. The show explores five sub-themes: Portraits and Emblems of Power; Heavenly Realm/Earthly Realm; Palaces; and Courtly Life, Diplomatic Gifts, and Objects for the Delight and Edification of the Rulers. Curated by Anne Morse, William and Helen Pounds Senior Curator of Japanese Art.

Due to the ongoing concerns about COVID-19, the traveling exhibition “Art and Power: from Pharaohs to Daimyōs. Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston” has been canceled for the year 2020.