The Boston Museum of Fine Arts is America's second largest and most important art museum after New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. Its collection includes more than one million objects of fine and applied art. This museum was opened in 1876 on the basis of the Boston Athenaeum collection, and it moved to a modern building in 1909. The works of the French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists (Monet, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Degas, Cezanne and many others) are widely represented here, as well as paintings by American realists and impressionists (J. Sargent, J. Copley and others). Of particular note are the museum collections of Japanese ceramics and the Ancient East (especially ancient Egyptian art). The Museum of Fine Arts also houses jewelry, musical instruments, and textile and glass objects belonging to both European and ethnic American art.