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Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
Comment on Facebook The museum is the oldest repertory cinema in Houston and has sponsored the exhibition of film since 1939. Initially, the museum screened films that were furnished by the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the museum solicited additional films from local consulates. First-run films as well as archival and repertory films were featured. The taste for foreign films grew in the 1950s, and the museum provided the only venue in Houston for such offerings.
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Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
1001 Bissonnet Street
Houston, TX 77006Phone: (713) 639-7300 | Email | Official Website
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Museum Parking Garage
Located directly east of the Beck and Law buildings, the MFAH Visitors Center features a four-story covered parking garage.
The easy-to-find parking entrance is on Binz, marked by a large, yellow arrow.
You're always protected from the elements when you park your car in the Museum Garage. From there, you can go to the Visitors Center lobby and find a ticketing desk and up-to-the minute museum information.
As an added convenience, you can enter the Beck and Law buildings from the Visitors Center through security-monitored, climate-controlled tunnels connecting all three buildings.
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Accessibility Services
There is no accessibility service information available at this time.
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Technical Specs
By 1974, with the completion of a theater designed by the famed architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, film became a regular part of the museum’s annual exhibition schedule. Brown Auditorium Theater seats 362 and has excellent acoustics and sight lines. The theater reopened after significant, state-of-the-art renovations in November 2000.
The new design features a custom seamless screen that provides larger, brighter, crisper images. The projection booth was expanded to house consoles with larger lamphouses to support 16mm and 35mm motion picture images, multi-format video projection, and, in the future, a digital projector. In addition, slide projector lenses, the projection window glass, and other optical elements were updated.
The audio systems feature separate motion picture and speech reinforcement designs. The audio system for motion pictures supports Dolby and DTS digital playback as well as current analog optical film formats. The system’s main screen channels are tri-amplified with low frequency reinforcement provided by three subwoofers behind the screen. Surround speakers are mounted behind the side and rear walls of the auditorium.
Other improvements include a new lighting/dimming system and custom-designed AMX control system to allow remote operation from both the projection booth and the lectern on the stage level. The custom-designed lectern offers guest speakers a variety of ways to use media in their presentations. Intercom equipment enables performers and operators to exchange information, and a newly remodeled green room with elevator access is available for speakers and performers on the stage level. The assistive listening system was expanded to fully comply with ADA requirements, and more comfortable companion and wheelchair seating is accessible in the remodeled theater.
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Current Events
05/25/12-
05/27/12MFAH Film Revivals: Reality Bites
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
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Upcoming Events
05/28/12 MFAH Film Premieres: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium05/31/12 MFAH Film Special Presentation: Houston Public Library Reel Teen Film Festival 2012
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/01/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - On the Vitaphone: 1927–30
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/02/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Sleep, My Love
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/03/12-
06/21/12MFAH Film Premieres: Gerhard Richter Painting
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/03/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Samuel Beckett's Film
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/08/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Wanda
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/09/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - The Crusades
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/10/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Strangers in the Night
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/15/12-
06/17/12MFAH Film Premieres: Payback
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/22/12-
06/24/12MFAH Film Premieres: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir zamanlar Anadolu’da)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/29/12-
07/01/12MFAH Film Premieres: The Turin Horse (A Torinói ló)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
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Upcoming Events-
Current Events
05/25/12-
05/27/12MFAH Film Revivals: Reality Bites
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
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Upcoming Events
05/28/12 MFAH Film Premieres: El Bulli: Cooking in Progress
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium05/31/12 MFAH Film Special Presentation: Houston Public Library Reel Teen Film Festival 2012
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/01/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - On the Vitaphone: 1927–30
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/02/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Sleep, My Love
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/03/12-
06/21/12MFAH Film Premieres: Gerhard Richter Painting
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/03/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Samuel Beckett's Film
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/08/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Wanda
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/09/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - The Crusades
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/10/12 MFAH Film: UCLA Festival of Preservation - Strangers in the Night
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/15/12-
06/17/12MFAH Film Premieres: Payback
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/22/12-
06/24/12MFAH Film Premieres: Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (Bir zamanlar Anadolu’da)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium06/29/12-
07/01/12MFAH Film Premieres: The Turin Horse (A Torinói ló)
Museum of Fine Arts Houston - Brown Auditorium
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