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The Museum of Fine Arts. The original building of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, designed by William Ward Watkin, was opened in 1924. [63] It was the first art museum built in Texas and the third in the South. [64] The museum building has continued to evolve throughout the years.
The Houston Museum District is an association of 21 museums, cultural centers and community organizations located in Houston, Texas, dedicated to promoting art, science, history, and culture. The Houston Museum District currently includes 21 museums that recorded a collective attendance of around 7 million visitors a year. [ 1 ]
April: The Westheimer Colony Art Festival is held on a stretch of Calhoun Road (now St. Joseph Parkway) in Downtown Houston; it was the first time the art festival was not held in Montrose. After 1996, the festival was renamed the Bayou City Art Festival. November: Houston voters defeated a zoning referendum for the third time in almost 50 years.
The Health Museum; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Houston Fire Museum; Houston Fire Station No. 7; Houston Museum District; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Sam Houston Park
1634 – Bishop Morton's Charter created Sunderland's first Mayor and Corporation. [1] West View of the Cast Iron Bridge over the River Wear at Sunderland. 1698 – Formation of Sunderland Company of Glassmakers; 1669 – Letters patent permitted the erection of a pier and lighthouse. [1] 1719 – Sunderland Parish's Holy Trinity Church opened
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.
The Museum contains a large collection of the locally made Sunderland Lustreware pottery. [7] Other highlights of the Museum are a stuffed Lion which was acquired in 1879, [ 8 ] the remains of a walrus brought back from Siberia in the 1880s and the first Nissan car to be made in Sunderland. [ 9 ]
The museum campus has grown to include four satellite galleries to the main building: Cy Twombly Gallery (also designed by Piano); The Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, which houses Dominique de Menil's last commission (a series of three site-specific installations by Dan Flavin that were installed in 1998); The Byzantine Fresco Chapel; and the Menil Drawing Institute.