Museums are an excellent way to discover the culture of the human race without having to fire up the broken-down time machine resting on cinder blocks in the front yard. Fortify your mind with bountiful works of art with today's Groupon: for $10, you get one general admission (a $20 value) to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston on Huntington Avenue. This Groupon expires three months from today, so get your peepers prepped for summer artgazing.

A comprehensive compendium of the world's art, the MFA lets guests take a gander at the earliest art of ancient Egypt, musical instruments from every celestial sphere, and the Impressionist art of Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Paul Gauguin, to name just a few 19th-century masters. Additionally, be sure to see the beautifully restored ceiling mural by John Singer Sargent above the palatial upper rotunda.

This summer, visit the museum on a Friday and stick around from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. for mfasummerfridays. Beginning on July 2 and running through the end of August, the soiree is free with your general-admission Groupon. Held amid the environs of the outdoor Calderwood Courtyard, mfasummerfridays feature live music and a chance to rub elbows and metacarpals with like-minded art lovers. A cash bar will serve up cocktails, an ideal complement to the buttery wane of late evening sunlight and nascent overhead stars. Come alone and meet new people against a soundtrack of global tunes, or cap off a museum visit with a friend or loved one.

Please redeem Groupon at ticket desk. The one-time museum re-entry usually offered with a full-price admission is not offered in conjunction with this Groupon.

Reviews

The New York Times featured the Museum of Fine Arts. Nearly 200 Yelpers and 23 TripAdvisors give the museum an average of 4.5 stars, and five Insider Pagers give it five stars:

• ...I think I first got hooked on museums the way many kids do, through the thrills and chills of Egyptian art. Why? For one thing, the Museum of Fine Arts had a ton of it, the largest collection of Egyptian Old Kingdom art outside Cairo. – Holland Cotter, New York Times
• The structure itself is simply fabulous, and you enter to immediately know that you are in the midst of something tremendous. The range of work and exhibits here is phenomenal. – MP B., Insider Pages
• I've been many times to the Museum of Fine Arts and a visit to this museum has never disappointed me. – sedum37, TripAdvisor