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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas.With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, [2] it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.
On Thursdays, The Children's Museum of Houston is free after 5 p.m., [3] The Health Museum is free from 2–7 pm, [4] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is free 11 am - 9 pm. [5] The Houston Museum of Natural Science is free on Tuesdays between 5-8 pm. [6] Houston's Museum District is walkable and bikeable.
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas, United States, is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) facility of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) that houses a collection of decorative art, paintings and furniture. [2] Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opened in 1972, in a building designed by Gunnar Birkerts. [2]
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Marzio made a point of bringing art from different cultures into the museum's collection. He created specific departments for Asian and Latin American art. In 2001, he worked to establish the International Center for the Arts of the Americas. [9] During his tenure the museum's collection increased from 14,000 to 62,000 works of art. [10]
The Audrey Jones Beck Building was designed by architect Rafael Moneo and opened to the public in 2000. It houses 158,150 ft² (14,693 m²) of galleries for the museum's permanent collection of antiquities, European painting and sculpture to 1900, American art, as well as temporary exhibitions.
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