The museum is located in Houston, Texas is one of the most prominent museums across Texas in the United States and also the 12th biggest in the world, according to gallery space. It recently completed the eight-year redevelopment of the campus, including its opening of the Nany and the building of Rick Kinder, which is scheduled to open in 2020. Its Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, houses more than 6000 years of history and 70,000 pieces of art from six continents.
The museum is home to an ongoing collection of nearly 70,000 items in the museum’s 300,000 square feet of exhibit space. The museum’s programs and groups are housed in nine buildings. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is Texas’s most renowned art museum. It was established as an art museum for the public back in 1917 when the general public opened the very first museum in 1924. Before its debut, George M. Dickson left the museum with the most significant collection of his.
American oil paintings and European oils on canvas.
In the 1930s, Houstonian Annette Finnigan donated her antiquities, as did Ima Hogg, who presented her avant-garde European prints and drawings. The MFAH collection almost doubled between 1970 and 1989, fuelled by the continued donation of artwork and the introduction of endowment funds for accession and corporate gifts. 1974, John and Audrey Jones Beck was granted a loan of fifty Impressionist and Post-Impressionist masterpieces, enhancing the museum’s impressive Impressionist collection.
Membership
Members support the Museum’s goal of creating an art and culture community that is vibrant in Houston. MFAH members also get year-round general admission free of charge, as well as free tickets to shows, early access to exhibitions before exhibitions are open to the public, and many other benefits.
If you gift your gift MFAH membership, The lucky recipient receives:
- 12 months of general admission
- Invitations to preview events Bed Bug Exterminator Houston
- Discounted and free lectures, tours, and events
- and much and much more!
Collections
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has an extensive collection of more than 70,000 artworks created all over the globe from the beginning to the present. Explore the Museum’s art collection by using this database searchable that is constantly continually updated. Explore art from various cultures, periods as well as classifications. You can then visit the Museum to see your favorite pieces in person.
Collecting Areas, such as
- American Painting and Sculpture
- Antiquities
- Art of the Islamic Worlds
- Arts of Africa and the Indigenous Pacific Islands
- Australia and the Americas
- Arts of Asia
- Bayou Bend
- Decorative Arts, Crafts, and Design
- European Art
- Film
- Latin American Art
- Modern and Contemporary
- Photography
- Prints and Drawing
- Rienzi
- Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation
- The Straus Collection
Address: 1001 Bissonnet Houston, TX
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