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MFA On Tour gives you access to our extensive collections—beyond the walls of our galleries. Build attendance and create excitement at your own institution by taking advantage of the MFA's world-renowned collection of almost 450,000 objects. These beautiful exhibitions, crowd-pleasers at the MFA and elsewhere, draw on all areas of our encyclopedic collections.
A selection of current touring exhibitions includes:
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|  Dangerous Curves: Art of the Guitar
Based on one of the most popular exhibitions the MFA has ever held, this show will be a celebration of guitar design over the past four hundred years. Including 50-60 guitars, the exhibition will examine how the look of this iconic instrument has constantly responded to changes in fashion, technology, and music. Available Fall 2011, Winter/Spring 2012. |
|  A Bouquet of Prints
Comprised of 100 flower prints, this exhibition features the products of a fruitful collaboration of botanists, horticulturists, painters, and printmakers from the 17th to 19th centuries. Requiring technical virtuosity and complex techniques to achieve an amazing range of line and tone, these colorful works reveal the detail, structure, texture, tone, and lifelike appearance of a magnificent iris, an exotic lily, or a single elegant rose executed with an originality of design and composition. Available January-March 2010, April-June 2010. |
|  Lost Kingdoms of the Nile
Universal in their appeal, the arts of ancient Egypt and Nubia continue to inspire us today, just as they have fascinated travelers from all over the world for millennia. Large stone monuments excavated by the MFA Boston in 1914, funerary objects, and gold jewelry demonstrate the great achievements of the civilizations of the Nile. This exhibition is available beginning April 2010 for eight to ten months. |
|  American Automobile Design Drawings
Showcasing the beauty and ingenuity of American automotive design during the decades following World War II, a landmark period in car styling, this exhibition features more than 100 dynamic drawings. Available from January 2009-November 2009 and March 2010 forward. |
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More Information
For more information about these exhibitions and the many others available through MFA On Tour, contact Anna Bursaux, Manager of Touring Exhibitions, at 617-369-3201 or MFAontour@mfa.org. |
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