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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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    Eye on Third Ward 2012: Jack Yates High School Photography

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

    February 5-May 28, 2012

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    Shifting Paradigms in Contemporary Ceramics: The Garth Clark and Mark Del Vecchio Collection

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

    March 4-June 3, 2012

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    Elegance and Refinement: The Still-Life Paintings of Willem van Aelst

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

    March 11-May 28, 2012

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    • Event Name: MFAH Film Premieres: Bill Cunningham New York (Fridays)
      "Back by Popular Demand!"
      Comment posted by: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston from Houston, Texas, Jul 08, 2011

      July 8 screening of "Bill Cunningham New York" movie at MFAH sold out! Two more screenings: Friday July 15 Friday July 22 Advance tix @ www.mfah.org/films

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    • Event Name: French Fête
      "Badly managed crowds"
      Comment posted by: Sad art fan from Houston,TX, Apr 03, 2011

      Sure wish we could even have gotten INTO this event! We got to the 9pm event at 8:40, stood in line outside for more than an hour, and finally left, as we had only gotten about half-way to the door.... Expand

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