Dallas Museum of Art, Art museum in Arts District, Dallas, United States.
The Dallas Museum of Art is an art museum in the Arts District of Dallas with more than 24,000 objects from five millennia across multiple floors. The collections cover American, European, African, and Asian art, organized by origin and period.
The institution was founded in 1903 and moved to its current building in 1984, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes. This relocation marked the beginning of the Dallas Arts District.
The museum's name comes from the city, not a family: it was founded in 1903 as the Dallas Art Association, became the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, and took its current name later. May Dickson Exall, first president of the Dallas Public Library, championed the first exhibitions there.
Admission has been free since 2013, and the building organizes educational programs, workshops, and special exhibitions throughout the year. The rooms are wheelchair accessible and offer guided tours in several languages.
The museum belongs to the Monuments Men and Women Museum Network, launched in 2021 by the Monuments Men Foundation for the Preservation of Art. On 1 June 2022 a man smashed the front entrance with a metal chair and damaged four works, among them three ancient Greek vases over 2,000 years old.
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