Facilities Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

caroline wiess law building



audrey jones beck building



glassell school of art



gardens @ bayou bend, donated ima hogg



rienzi house museum

the mfah s permanent collection totals 63,718 pieces in 270,000 square feet (25,000 m) of exhibition space, placing among larger art museums in united states. museum s collections , programs housed in 7 facilities. main buildings (law , beck) have 130,000 square feet (12,000 m) of exhibition space.

main campus

caroline wiess law building – original neo-classical building designed in phases architect william ward watkin. original caroline wiess law building constructed in 1924 , east , west wing added in 1926. robert lee blaffer memorial wing designed kenneth franzheim , opened public in 1953. new construction included significant structural improvements several existing galleries—most notably, air conditioning. 2 subsequent additions, cullinan hall , brown pavilion, designed ludwig mies van der rohe built in 1958 , 1974 respectively. section of museum of fine arts, houston campus mies-designed museum in united states. caroline wiess law building provides ideal space in exhibit museum’s collection of twentieth- , twenty-first-century artworks, installations of oceanic art, asian art, indonesian gold artifacts, , pre-columbian , sub-saharan african artworks. of special interest glassell collection of african gold, largest assemblage of kind in world.
audrey jones beck building – opened public in 2000, beck building designed rafael moneo, pritzker architecture prize laureate , respected spanish architect of tremendous range. museum trustees elected name building after audrey jones beck in honor of large collection had donated museum several decades prior.
nancy , rich kinder building – in 2012, museum selected steven holl architects on 2 other finalists, snøhetta , morphosis, in international search design 164,000 sq ft (15,200 m) expansion hold galleries art after 1900. new building occupy two-acre museum-owned site parking lot. new mfah building integrated adjacent lillie , hugh roy cullen sculpture garden , expanded glassell school of art. include 25 galleries traveling exhibitions, educational areas, library, lecture halls, theater , restaurant. museum expects project cost $250 million $350 million design process taking 2 years, followed 5 years of construction.
the lillie , hugh roy cullen sculpture garden – designed us-born artist , landscape architect isamu noguchi , opened in 1986.the lillie , hugh roy cullen sculpture garden houses more twenty-five masterworks of acclaimed artists nineteenth, twentieth, , twenty-first centuries mfah , other major collections. garden sculpture unites pathways between caroline wiess law building , glassell school of art.
glassell school of art – founded in 1979 , designed architect s. i. morris, glassell school of art offers programs under studio school adults. glassell school of art serves teaching wing of mfah, variety of classes, workshops, , educational opportunities students diverse in age, interests, experience, , needs. in 2014, steven holl designed new l-shaped building school, featuring ramped amphitheatre leads walkable rooftop garden. in addition opening onto noguchi s sculpture garden , providing added outdoor space programs , performances, 80,000 sq ft (7,400 m) building sits atop extensive underground parking garage.

the school offers classes @ studio school adults , glassell junior school, community bridge programs, special programs youths, , core artist-in-residence program.

central administration , glassell junior school of art building – building, opened in 1994 , designed texan architectural designer carlos jimenez, houses museum s administrative functions glassell junior school. mfah museum facility in united states has special building dedicated solely art classes children.

other facilities

bayou bend collection , gardens – features 1 of nation s finest collections of american decorative art , furniture. bayou bend collection , gardens, former home of life trustee ima hogg, designed architect john f. staub in 1927. miss hogg donated property mfah in 1957, followed, in 1962, donation of collection of paintings, furniture, ceramics, glass, metals, , textiles. bayou bend officially dedicated , opened public in 1966. situated on 14 acres (57,000 m) of formal , woodland gardens 5 miles (8 km) main museum campus, historic house museum documents american decorative , fine arts seventeenth mid-nineteenth centuries. esteemed 1 of nation’s premier museums of decorative arts.
rienzi – mfah house museum european decorative arts, rienzi donated mfah carroll sterling masterson , harris masterson iii in 1991. residence, named rienzi johnston, mr. masterson s grandfather, situated on 4.4 acres (18,000 m) in homewood addition, surrounded houston s river oaks neighborhood. structure designed in 1952 john f. staub, same architect designed bayou bend. completed in 1954, rienzi served both family home , center houston civic , philanthropic activity 1950s through mid-1990s. after mr. masterson s death, mfah transformed home museum , subsequently opened public in 1999
nidhika , pershant metha arts of india - space in houston indian arts culture. nidika , pershant metha contributed $500,000.00 build this.




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