restoration and reopening of the museum's other historic entrance, the MFA's State Street Corporation Fenway Entrance overlooking the Back Bay Fens, closed for 30 years. In 1996, Rogers eliminated admission fees for those aged seventeen and younger and extended museum opening hours to seven days and more than 60 hours a week. Rogers also instituted a series of free community days, cultural celebrations, and education programs, which allowed the MFA to welcome more than one million visitors annually. Rogers’ decision to open the museum for longer hours (at the time, the longest of any major museum in the US) and reach out to new audiences in the surrounding community brought him acclaim. His initiatives reflected his philosophy of "opening doors" and making the museum accessible to all, a decision described by Geoff Edgers of The Boston Globe as "a step toward rejuvenating the MFA." That same year, Rogers established the Director's Working Group on Diversity, comprising community leaders and MFA staff, which led to a range of community festivals and internship programs for teenagers, drawn from nearby schools and reflecting their diversity. In 2002, the museum released its Diversity Action Plan, prepared by Riscoe & Associates of Philadelphia, outlining steps to ensure the MFA is a trusted institution in which all Bostonians are stakeholders, and which truly represented the face of contemporary society. A desire to also make the museum's collection available to a world-wide audience led in 2000 to the launch of the MFA's online searchable collections database at mfa.org. By Rogers’ departure in 2015, virtually the entire collection of 450,000 objects were available online. In 1999, Rogers partnered with the Foundation for the Arts, Nagoya to open the Nagoya/Boston Museum of Fine Arts in Nagoya, Japan, marking the first time an American museum had opened a sister institution in Asia, and a significant step in further internationalizing the MFA's reputation. During the 20-year partnership, the N/BMFA presented over 30 exhibitions developed collaboratively by MFA and N/BMFA curators based on the MFA's collection and contributed considerable resources to scholarship and conservation. Also in 1999, the MFA announced that the London-based, Pritzker Prize-winning architecture firm Foster and Partners had been hired to design a Master Site Plan for the museum that envisioned a transformative renovation and expansion of the building and site. Central to the plan was a new wing for the Art of the Americas collections and an adjacent