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Posted: Friday, 27 June 2008 9:32AM

'Mission Accomplished' for MFA fundraisers

Posted by: Reynold Joseph

BOSTON (AP) -- Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has reached its half a billion dollar fundraising goal, the most raised for a campaign by an arts institution in the city's history.

The seven-year campaign far eclipsed a recent $150 million fundraising drive by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

The Boston Globe reports that most of the money will go to the museum's ongoing $345 million expansion project.

The expansion will add galleries, a glass-enclosed courtyard and various amenities.

Other funds will go to the museum's endowment and programs.

The museum's 90 trustees gave $260 million of the total, with 52 of them giving $1 million or more.

The museum, which draws about a million visitors a year, opened in 1876 and moved to its current location on Huntington Avenue in 1909.

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