Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), founded in 1900, is one of the 10 largest art museums in the United States. The MFAH houses an encyclopedic collection of nearly 80,000 works of art created throughout the world, from Antiquity to the present. In addition to permanent exhibitions, the MFAH is prolific in organizing special exhibitions, concerts, festivals, lectures, and film screenings, among other activities, for audiences of all ages.

Spanning 14 acres in the heart of Houston’s Museum District, the main campus comprises the Audrey Jones Beck Building, the Caroline Wiess Law Building, the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden designed by Isamu Noguchi, and the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building inaugurated on November 21, 2020. It is dedicated to exhibiting 20th- and 21st-century art. With the inauguration of the Kinder Building, the MFAH completed a huge campus redevelopment project that began in 2012 and was considered the biggest of its kind in North America.

Nearby, two house museums—Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, and Rienzi—present collections of American and European decorative arts. 

The MFAH is also home to the Glassell School of Art, with its Core Residency Program and Junior and Studio schools, and the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA), a leading research institute for 20th-century Latin American and Latino art as well as the Michelin-starred restaurant Le Jardinier at the MFAH.

View details on ongoing and upcoming exhibitions here. Check out the museum’s calendar of all events here.

General admission is free all day on Thursdays (permanent collections).