Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Art museum in Beaumont, Texas, United States

The Art Museum of Southeast Texas is an art museum in Beaumont that holds about 2,000 artworks from the 1800s through the 2000s in its Main Street location. The building contains paintings, sculptures, and crafts in different styles and from different time periods.

The Beaumont Art Museum was incorporated in Texas on September 14, 1950, and first occupied the lower floor of a rented two-story house on Calder Avenue. In 1969 the J. Crooke Wilson family gave their five-acre Old Town estate to the city for the museum. A $4.2 million capital drive funded the move to 500 Main Street, where it reopened on September 10, 1987 as the Art Museum of Southeast Texas.

The museum features works by regional artists and displays traditional folk art from the United States and Mexico through rotating exhibitions. These changing shows reflect the artistic interests of the area and help visitors understand local creative traditions.

The museum stands at 500 Main Street in Beaumont's Old Town historic district, on the five-acre property donated by the J. Crooke Wilson family in 1969. Its galleries hold eight to ten exhibitions a year, some organized in-house and later sent to other venues, so the displays change often. The Felix "Fox" Harris folk art totem gallery, opened in August 2007, is a fixed stop.

The museum has a permanent collection of wooden carvings by artist Felix Harris depicting totems. These works show the craft of a self-taught artist and represent an early effort to collect work by artists who learned their skill outside formal training.