What to Know About the Texas Museum

What is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston?

The Museum of Fine Arts is a cornucopia of visual arts ranging from prints and drawings to photography and decorative arts, crafts, and design. One of the top 10 largest museums in the nation and home to over 70,000 works of art from all over the world that span eras, cultures, and genres, the museum’s list of offerings is exhaustive. See Jackson Pollock’s “Carved Bone” sculpture, an Egyptian coffin, and Edvard Munch’s 1895 Self Portrait as you peruse the many galleries. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is unique in that it occupies three gallery buildings that sit on a campus filled with treasures, including a sculpture garden that is definitely worth a stroll.

Is the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston worth visiting?

As one of the most “major” museums in the Museum District of Houston, this one is usually at the top of visitors’ bucket lists. What makes it more special is its layout—an entire complex versus just a museum building. In addition to the three gallery buildings and the sculpture garden, you’ll cross paths with students from two on-site art schools while making your way to a library, gift shop, visitor’s center, two movie theaters, and two house museums, all just steps away.

What’s the best way to see the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston?

The museum is open seven days a week and the permanent collections are free to all visitors on Thursdays. If you purchase a CityPASS to access Houston’s most popular attractions, you’ll save 50 percent off the ticket price at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. And this is one place where you’re encouraged to use your phone! You can access audio and video guides on any mobile device to make your visit even more informative.

What’s good to eat near the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston?

The museum offers two restaurants that are much more than your typical museum grab-and-go. Café Leonelli at MFA serves breakfast and lunch and leans into Italian fare, while Le Jardinier’s French offerings are so bien that non-museum patrons regularly dine there for dinner or Sunday brunch. At the end of a busy day in the museum, walk just a couple blocks to the beautiful Hotel ZaZa and enjoy an elegant dinner at Monarch Restaurant & Lounge.