Museum of Fine Arts (MBTA station)

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS

An outbound train at Museum of Fine Arts station

Location

Huntington Avenue at Louis Prang/Ruggles Street
Boston, Massachusetts

Coordinates

Coordinates: 42°20′16″N 71°05′44″W / 42.337674°N 71.095533°W

Owned by

Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Line(s)

Green Line "E" branch

Platforms

2 side platforms

Tracks

Connections

MBTA Bus: CT2, CT3, 8, 19, 39, 47

Construction

Disabled access

Yes

History

Rebuilt

2003 (new station)

Previous names

Museum; Museum/Ruggles

Traffic

Passengers (2011)

1,683 (weekday average)^[1]

Services

Preceding station		MBTA		Following station
Longwood Medical Area toward Heath Street		Green Line "E" Branch		Northeastern University toward Lechmere

Museum of Fine Arts is a surface-level tram stop on the MBTA Green Line "E" Branch, located the median of Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts, between Museum Road and Ruggles Street. The station is named after the adjacent Museum of Fine Arts, although it also provides access to Northeastern University, Wentworth Institute of Technology, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum. Museum of Fine Arts station is fully handicapped accessible.

History

Temporary station in 2001 used during construction of the accessible station

The modern Green Line "E" Branch opened on February 16, 1941 with the completion of the Huntington Avenue subway from Copley to the Northeastern Incline.^[2] (Before then, trams had run on the surface from the Boylston Street portal). Until the 1970s, there were not truly distinct stations on the surface portion of the line; passengers merely waited on street corners. Museum of Fine Arts first appeared on system maps in 1990 as Museum (sometimes Museum/Ruggles), and small asphalt platforms were installed north of Museum Road around that time. Most current system maps show the name as Museum Fine Arts to save space, though the MBTA still uses the full Museum of Fine Arts name on Green Line-only maps and station signage.

In a renovation that took place in 2002 and 2003, a new handicapped-accessible station was built between Museum Road and Ruggles Street. Wiring slots for an automatic fare collection system were installed during the upgrade, though fare collection at the station is still on board trains. A signal prioritization system for Northeastern University and all stops further outbound is also in place.

Station layout

G Ground/ platform level	Side platform, doors will open on the right
	Outbound	← "E" Branch toward Heath (Longwood Medical Area)
	Inbound	→ "E" Branch toward Lechmere (Northeastern University) →
	Side platform, doors will open on the right

Bus connections

Museum of Fine Arts station serves as a transfer point between bus routes on Huntington Avenue, Fenway, and Ruggles Street.

CT2 Sullivan Station - Ruggles Station via Kendall/MIT
CT3 Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center - Andrew Station via B.U. Medical Center
8 Harbor Point/UMass - Kenmore Station via B.U. Medical Center & Dudley Station
19 Fields Corner Station - Ruggles Station via Grove Hall and Dudley Station
39 Forest Hills Station - Back Bay Station via Huntington Avenue
47 Central Square, Cambridge - Broadway Station via South End Medical Area, Dudley Station and Longwood Medical Area

References

↑ "Ridership and Service Statistics" (PDF) (14 ed.). Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority. 2014. Retrieved 18 December 2015.
↑ Belcher, Jonathan (27 June 2015). "Changes to Transit Service in the MBTA district 1964-2015" (PDF). NETransit. Retrieved 18 December 2015.

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Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority

Subway lines
(List of stations)

Heavy rail	Blue Orange Red

Light rail	Green "B" Branch "C" Branch "D" Branch "E" Branch Ashmont–Mattapan

Former lines	Arborway Line Atlantic Avenue Elevated Causeway Street Elevated Charlestown Elevated Green Line "A" Branch Washington Street Elevated

Commuter
Rail lines
(List of stations)

North Station lines	Fitchburg Haverhill (Wildcat Branch) Lowell Newburyport/Rockport

South Station lines	Fairmount Framingham/Worcester Franklin Greenbush Needham Old Colony (Kingston/Plymouth Middleborough/Lakeville CapeFLYER) Providence/Stoughton

Former lines	Central Mass Branch Dedham Branch Lexington Branch Millis Branch Woburn Branch

Bus routes
(List of routes)

Other services

Component parts
of system lines

Boylston Street Subway
Haymarket North Extension
Lechmere Viaduct
Tremont Street Subway
Washington Street Subway

Capital projects

Under construction	Chelsea extension Fairmount Line upgrades Fitchburg Line upgrades Wachusett extension Forest Hills modifications Government Center reconstruction Green Line Extension Haverhill Line upgrades South Coast Rail

In planning / proposed	Buzzards Bay extension Foxboro service Hynes Convention Center renovation Kingston R.I. extension Nashua extension Route 16 extension Wollaston renovation

Formerly proposed	Arborway Line restoration Indigo Line (Fairmount Grand Junction Track 61) Lexington extension Lynn extension North–South Rail Link Plaistow extension Reading extension Red Line—Blue Line Connector Urban Ring Project

History

Predecessor companies	Boston Elevated Railway Streetcar lines Boston and Maine Railroad Conrail New York Central Railroad New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Penn Central Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway Middlesex and Boston Street Railway Newton and Boston Street Railway

Route histories	History of the Green Line

Accidents and incidents	1990 Back Bay 2008 Waban/Woodland

Other

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