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Key art for 1776: Declaring Independence, showing an engraving of the drafting committee presenting the Declaration of Independence

Massachusetts Historical Society · Fenway / Back Bay

1776: Declaring Independence

Now showing6 March 2026 – 19 December 2026·Free

Handwritten copies of the Declaration by John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, a rare Dunlap broadside, letters and diaries trace how the document grew from draft to founding text.

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Rembrandt van Rijn, Bust of a Young Bearded Man (detail), about 1656–58, oil on panel

Reality and Imagination: Rembrandt and the Jews in the Dutch Republic

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Seated statue of the pharaoh Hatshepsut (detail), Egyptian, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty

Maverick Kings: Three Visionary Pharaohs of Egypt's Golden Age

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Joan Miró, Le Lézard aux plumes d'or (The Lizard with Golden Feathers) (detail), 1971, colour lithograph

Picasso, Miró, Dalí: Unbound

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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