Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Houston · United States · Founded 1900
The largest art museum in the southern United States and one of the ten largest in the country, with outstanding Latin American and Impressionist collections.
About Museum of Fine Arts Houston
Founded in 1900, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (MFAH) is the largest art museum in the southern United States, with a collection of more than 70,000 works spanning 6,000 years of art history. Its campus encompasses two main buildings by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, a sculpture garden by Isamu Noguchi, and the Rienzi house museum.
The collection's particular strengths are in Latin American art — one of the finest such collections in any museum in the world — alongside Impressionism, antiquities, gold and silver objects, and decorative arts. The museum offers free admission on Thursdays for permanent galleries.
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