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The Museum of Fine Arts & Fenway Park

The Museum of Fine Arts Boston:

Located on Huntington Avenue in Boston’s Fenway-Kenmore neighbourhood, this is the fourth largest museum in the country. It was founded in 1870 in what is today the Copley Square Hotel. It has the most comprehensive collections in the Americas, containing more than 500,000 works of art. They moved to its current building in 1909, designed primarily by the renowned architect Guy Lowell.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fenway Park:

This a baseball park uniquely located in central Boston, around the Boston University area and close to Kenmore Square. Since 1912, this has been the home for the Boston Red Sox- the city’s Major League Baseball franchise. Fenway Park has hosted the World Series ten times, with the Red Sox winning five of them.