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    Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

    1001 Bissonnet St.
    Houston , TX 77005
    713-639-7300

    Website: mfah.org/


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    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.

    There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and...

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    The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.

    There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens.

    A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art.

    The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest.

    More than 2.5 million people visit the MFAH each year.

    Community outreach programs touch the lives of more than 670,000 peopleeach year.

    The collection contains more than 51,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. The major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa are represented.

    Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American

    and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularlystrong holdings.

    The museum and the Glassell School of Art present more than thirty changing
    exhibitions each year.

    The MFAH has published more than forty scholarly books in the last decade. 


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    Visit Bayou Bend

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

    January 1, 2006 - Ongoing

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    Visit The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Cullen Sculpture Garden

    September 29, 2006 - Ongoing

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    MFAH Fine Art + Food Trucks UPDATED

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Cullen Sculpture Garden

    March 12, 2012-August 31, 2013

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    The al-Sabah Collection

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building

    January 26, 2013-January 26, 2014

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    Eye on Houston: High School Documentary Photography

    Presented by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston at Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building

    February 3-June 2, 2013

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    • Event Name: Visit The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden
      "The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden..."
      Comment posted by: Art Books from USA, Jan 03, 2013

      The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden is world class, with sculptures by Monet and Rodin. A must visit while in Houston!

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    • Event Name: MFAH Special Lecture - French Marquetry: Learning by Looking
      "excellent French furniture examples, viewing,..."
      Comment posted by: Guest from USA, Jun 07, 2012

      excellent French furniture examples, viewing, space,informative knowledgeable visiting specialist. The best visit to Rienzi too, lovely place. I learned a lot by looking!

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    05/21/13

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