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Museum of Fine Arts Houston

With an incredible 300,000 square feet of art space, the Museum of Fine Arts, located in the heart of the Museum District, is the largest American art museum south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles. Over 55,000 works of art, representing European, Asian, American and African civilizations, and spanning dates from antiquity to the present, are contained in this immense collection. Boasting strong holdings in American and European decorative arts, photography, Italian Renaissance and French Impressionist paintings, African and Pre-Columbian gold, and post-WWII paintings and sculpture from Europe and America, the Museum of Fine Arts incorporates several buildings and lavish public gardens. The main buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building, display a broad range of art, from 20th- and 21st-century artworks to the world's greatest assemblage of gold in the Glassell Collection. The Bayou Bend and Rienzi house museums specialize in American and European decorative art, respectively. The Museum of Fine Arts also brings over 30 rotating exhibits to more than 2.5 million visitors each year.

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Address: 1001 Bissonnet St.

URL: http://www.mfah.org/