Menil Collection
Montrose · Houston, Texas
The Menil Collection is one of the great art museums of the world — a sprawling Renzo Piano campus in the heart of Houston presenting one of the largest private art collections ever opened to the public, spanning antiquity through the twentieth century with unparalleled depth in Surrealism, Byzantine art, and tribal objects from Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. John and Dominique de Menil assembled their collection with passionate connoisseurship that privileged quality and personal conviction over market consensus, and the result is a museum of extraordinary intimacy and depth — small enough to feel personal, large enough to be genuinely surprising on every visit. Free admission since its founding in 1987 makes the Menil one of the great democratic institutions of American cultural life.
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