Anyone that’s ever decided to move some art around in their home, knows it can be a daunting project—hang this here, or maybe over there, but that won’t work with that, etc etc. Now imagine you don’t just have a few art objects to choose from and rearrange, but more than 20,000.
That’s the task that the Museum of Fine Arts has taken upon itself. When “Art Unbound,” the re-installation of its permanent collection, opens to the public on Nov. 21, visitors will discover the reason behind this massive change—it’s giving us a whole new way of seeing.