BOSTON (AP) -- Boston's Museum of Fine Arts has reached its half a billion dollar fundraising goal, the most raised for a campaign by an arts institution in the city's history.
  
The seven-year campaign far eclipsed a recent $150 million fundraising drive by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
  
The Boston Globe reports that most of the money will go to the museum's ongoing $345 million expansion project.
  
The expansion will add galleries, a glass-enclosed courtyard and various amenities.
  
Other funds will go to the museum's endowment and programs.
  
The museum's 90 trustees gave $260 million of the total, with 52 of them giving $1 million or more.
  
The museum, which draws about a million visitors a year, opened in 1876 and moved to its current location on Huntington Avenue in 1909.