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510 Preston Street (446 Northwest Mall),
Houston, TX 77002 United States
713-639-7300
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http://www.mfah.org/
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Karen Ross
karen@haatx.com
713-527-9330
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, is the largest art museum in America south of Chicago, west of Washington, D.C., and east of Los Angeles.

There are two major museum buildings, the Caroline Wiess Law Building and the Audrey Jones Beck Building; two facilities for the Glassell School of Art, the Studio School for Adults and the Glassell Junior School; two house museums that exhibit decorative arts, Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens and Rienzi; the Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden; and 18 acres of public gardens.

A total of 300,000 square feet of space is dedicated to the display of art.

The Hirsch Library is one of the largest art libraries in the Southwest.

More than 2.5 million people visit the MFAH each year.

Community outreach programs touch the lives of more than 670,000 peopleeach year.

The collection contains more than 51,000 artworks, which date from antiquity to the present. The major civilizations of Europe, Asia, North and South America, and Africa are represented.

Italian Renaissance paintings, French Impressionist works, photographs, American

and European decorative arts, African and Pre-Columbian gold, American art, and European and American paintings and sculpture from post-1945 are particularlystrong holdings.

The museum and the Glassell School of Art present more than thirty changing
exhibitions each year.

The MFAH has published more than forty scholarly books in the last decade.

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The (Ex)perience of Love (Le syndrome des amours passées)

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Part of our FIVE FUNNY FRENCH FILMS series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Rémy (Lazare Gousseau) and Sandra (Lucie Debay) are unable to conceive a child because they […]

$7 – $9

Our Tiny Little Wedding (Notre tout petit petit mariage)

Museum of Fine Arts - Caroline Wiess Law Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

Part of our FIVE FUNNY FRENCH FILMS series at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Happy couple Lou and Max badly want to adopt a baby. They’ve created a picture-perfect […]

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Mr. Putifar’s Wacky Plan (Les Vengeances de Maître Poutifard)

Museum of Fine Arts - Nancy & Rich Kinder Building 1001 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, United States

The location for this screening has changed to the Lynn Wyatt Theater in the Kinder Building. As a middle-school teacher, Robert Putifar was teased by students during his entire career. […]

$7 – $9

The Crime Is Mine (Mon crime)

Museum of Fine Arts - Audrey Jones Beck Building 5601 Main Street, Houston, TX, United States

After a struggling actress stands trial for the murder of a lascivious producer in 1930s Paris, she ascends to scandalous stardom. A new life of fame, wealth, and tabloid celebrity […]

$7 – $9