Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Art museum in Museum District, Houston, US.
Museum of Fine Arts is an art museum in the Museum District of Houston spanning three connected buildings and tens of thousands of works from every inhabited continent. The campus includes wide galleries, interior courtyards, and a sculpture garden linking the main structures together.
The original building opened in 1924 from designs by William Ward Watkin, establishing the foundation for what would grow into today's complex. Over the following decades, additional structures joined the first, each adding new collection spaces and exhibition halls.
The institution takes its name from its mission to bring fine arts to one of the largest metropolitan areas in the United States. Visitors today walk through halls that hold works spanning human creativity, from ancient civilizations to living artists working across media.
The Sarofim Campus spreads over 14 acres in the Museum District, with the Law, Beck and Kinder buildings holding the main public galleries and the Cullen Sculpture Garden and Glassell School linking them. The Law and Beck buildings together provide over 130,000 square feet of exhibition space, so plan which building to enter first.
The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden, opened in 1986, was designed by artist and landscape architect Isamu Noguchi. It holds more than twenty-five works by 19th-, 20th- and 21st-century artists drawn from the MFAH and other major collections.
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