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Welcome to the "Grand Opening Banquet" honoring our American Made Heroes!

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The new glass-enclosed Shapiro Family Courtyard of the Art of Americas Wing.        The new glass-enclosed Shapiro Family Courtyard of the Art of Americas Wing provides a dramatic setting for year-round entertaining. The acoustics are flawless, as the space was designed with a sound engineer, and the marble walls provide the perfect backdrop for large-scale projections. Best of all, our guests are assured to be treated like VIPs when they have 53 spectacular new art galleries to view.  Click here for sample menu.

   

The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is one of the most comprehensive art museums in the world.
"Come and meet some of the great figures of American history." -- The collection encompasses nearly 450,000 works of art.

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Click for Malcolm Rogers' biography

Malcolm Rogers, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts -- Malcolm Rogers assumed the role of Ann and Graham Gund Director of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), in September 1994. During his tenure, he has expanded the Museum’s encyclopedic collection, presented a variety of innovative exhibitions, enhanced arts education programs, enlarged the MFA’s campus, and welcomed new audiences. Rogers’ initiatives are motivated by the MFA’s mission: to serve a variety of people through direct encounters with works of art. This has included renovating and reopening both of the Museum’s historic entrances. In addition, Rogers eliminated admission fees for children 17 and younger, extended the Museum’s hours (some of the longest of any major museum in America), and instituted a series of free community days. Approximately one million visitors each year are exposed to infinite possibilities for education and inspiration at the Museum.    Recognized and applauded as an American Made Hero!

Alexander Hamilton

"Not only the wealth, but the independence and security of a country, appear to be materially connected with the prosperity of manufacturers. Every nation ... ought to endeavor to possess within itself all the essentials of a national supply. They comprise the means of subsistence, habitation, clothing and defense ... The expediency of encouraging manufactures in the United States, which was not long since deemed very questionable, appears at this time to be pretty generally admitted."    -- Alexander Hamilton ... an American Made Hero!

From the shores of Boston Harbor In the neighborhood of "Southie"

"The America I know must always be viewed as a land of free people and not simply a business platform from which to extract personal profit no matter what effect on their fellow citizens. We must also fight to not lose our economic independence. Economic independence assures the existence of America as a land of free people. The country I will leave my children is in trouble and I am gravely concerned. This is my oar in the water."   An average American & coincidentally a graduate of Hamilton College supporting our American Made Heroes.