Community Programs

As staff preparations ramp up over the summer, we will host a range of outdoor events on the MFA’s campus starting in September, including concerts and films in partnership with the Roxbury International Film Festival.​

Please consider supporting the Museum, its art, and its programs with a gift to the MFA Fund.

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Have an Artful Adventure!

MFA Artful Adventures offers customized lessons, tours, and art-making activities based on the Museum's collections for groups of children of all ages.
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Community Arts Initiative

The MFA offers many community connections, including programs and partnerships with youth groups and organizations.
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Artful Healing

Partnering with Boston Children's Hospital, Dana Farber, Mass General, and more to bring art to children and families in the medical community.
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Artful Adventures Programs

A customized introduction to the MFA and its collections for groups of children from early childhood, after school, nontraditional school settings, special needs programs, and summer camps. Participatory and interactive, programs at the MFA last an hour and a half and include a tour and an art-making activity.

Learn more about Artful Adventures

Customized 2 hour parties include a gallery tour, an art-making activity, a story, and time for everyone to eat. For children turning 4 years and older.

Learn more about Birthday Parties

Specially designed home school programs for children between the ages of 3-18 years that meet on Fridays, September through June.

Learn more about Artful Adventures Home School Programs

Off-site programs last 1 hour and include a story, hand-on materials and pictures from the Museum's collections, and an art-making activity. Museum instructors can also provide drop-in art-making activities for children of all ages during a festival or event.

Learn more about Off-Site Programs and Festivals

Tours and badge workshops specifically designed for scouts.

Learn more about programs for Cub Scouts

Learn more about programs for Girl Scouts

Artful Healing

Artful Healing offers theme-based art-making activities at area hospitals and healthcare centers for children, youth, teens, and their families in a group setting or at bedside in patients' rooms.

Learn more about Artful Healing

Beyond the Spectrum is a monthly program designed for children on the Autism Spectrum.

Learn more about Beyond the Spectrum

Community Arts Initiative

The Community Arts Initiative works with after-school programs and community organizations to introduce young people to the Museum's collections and the art-making process.

Learn more about the Community Arts Initiative

The Artist Project is a collaboration between an experienced artist, the Museum of Fine Arts, and ten after-school community organizations in the Boston area. The program is designed to engage children in the art-making process under the guidance of a lead artist.

Learn more about the Artist Project.

Each year a new experienced artist with a passion for community arts plans and leads a project with children between the ages of six and twelve. The project engages children in a creative experience that connects with art from the Museum's collections. The final product is a collaborative work that reflects the voices and ideas of participating children and is exhibited in the Edward H. Linde Gallery (168) in the Linde Family Wing for Contemporary Art.

Learn More and Apply

Teen Arts Council

The Teen Arts Council (TAC) is an apprenticeship program for a group of teenagers who work for the Museum in a variety of leadership and learning opportunities and serve as ambassadors promoting the MFA in the Greater Boston community.

Learn more about the Teen Arts Council