School of the Museum of Fine Arts is established.

Originally the School of Drawing and Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, it opens with a class of 80 students meeting in the basement of the museum in Copley Square on January 2, 1877. According to The Atlantic Monthly, the school intends to combine “rigorous European training” to achieve a “systematic cooperation of sentiment and skill” to yield an art infused with “thoroughness and sincerity.” By 1899, more than 80% of the 116 students are female. Incorporated in 1901, it moves to 465 Huntington Avenue in 1909, and to its current building (first) in 1927.* Graduates include Allan Rohan Crite and Ellsworth Kelly. The school becomes affiliated with Tufts University in 1945 and becomes the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts in 2016.