El Paso Museum of Art, Art museum in El Paso, United States

The El Paso Museum of Art occupies a building completed in 1998 in downtown El Paso, Texas. Its galleries hold five collections: European art from the 12th to 18th centuries, Mexican art from the Spanish colonial period, more than 2,500 works on paper from the 17th to 20th centuries, American painting of the 19th and 20th centuries, and contemporary art of the U.S. Southwest and Mexico.

The museum opened in 1959 and relocated to its current downtown building in 1998. This move allowed for expanded exhibition space and improved conditions for displaying the growing collection.

The museum's contemporary collection focuses on artists of the Texas–New Mexico–Chihuahua borderland, among them Luis Jiménez, Carmen Lomas Garza, Gronk, Celia Álvarez Muñoz and Gaspar Enríquez. A separate Mexican section holds paintings, pottery and devotional objects from the Spanish colonial period, and the works-on-paper collection runs from the 17th to the 20th century.

The museum stands in downtown El Paso at 1 Arts Festival Plaza, beside the El Paso Museum of History and the Plaza Theatre. Its 1998 building places galleries, the Kress collection and works on paper under one roof, with art classes, film series, lectures and concerts running alongside the exhibitions for the West Texas, southern New Mexico and Ciudad Juárez communities.

The Kress gift spans the 12th to 18th centuries, not only the Renaissance and Baroque, and includes sculpture as well as paintings. Its Italian and Spanish panels and canvases, among them works by Canaletto, Lorenzo Lotto, Murillo, Bernardo Strozzi and Zurbarán, sit alongside Flemish pieces by Anthony van Dyck.