The largest art museum in New England, the museum of Fine Arts features a world-renowned collection of art; with the goal of representing diverse cultures and disparate eras throughout history, the museum preserves and presents works that have earned a cultural preeminence, with the goal of engaging an ever widening array of people in direct encounters with great art. The collections represent art from Ancient Egypt, the Ancient Near East, the Classical World, Asia, Oceania, Africa, Europe through 1900, Native American Art, American Art to 1900, and the Modern World.