The much-anticipated $500 million Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is set to open to the puplic on Saturday, Nov. 20. Admission is free that day.

The 53 new galleries, designed by Foster + Partners, holds about 5,000 works from the museum’s American collections, more than doubling the number previously on view, including works from North, Central, and South America that span the course of three millennia, up to the late 20th century.

On display will be 500 fresh acquisitions and long-popular works by celebrated masters such as Copley, Sargent, Cassatt, Homer and Hopper, as well as lesser known American artists, and many more works spanning categories from Columbian jewelry to early American quilts.

A few highlights include Fitz Henry Lane’s painting New York Harbor (about 1855) and intricately constructed 18th- and 19th-century ship models in the Ship Models and Maritime Arts gallery (Level LG); a Folk Art Pictorial quilt (1895–98) sewn by former slave Harriet Powers and a wall of whimsical weathervanes in the Life in 19th-Century America: Folk Art gallery (Level 2); and a host of 1920s and 30s fine and decorative arts by Stella, Sheeler, Hopper, Dove, and more on Level 3.

Museum member preview days are Nov. 14-19.