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1001 Bissonnet St. ,
Houston, TX 77005 United States
713-639-7300
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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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Event Series Le samouraï

Le Samouraï

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

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1967, 105 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. Sunday, July 21, 5:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, he finds himself caught between a persistent […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Le samouraï

Le samouraï

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

Directed by Jean-Pierre Melville (France, 1967, 105 min., in French with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, July 20, 7:00 p.m. (B) Sunday, July 21, 5:00 p.m. (B) In a career-defining performance, Alain Delon plays a contract killer with samurai instincts. After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, he finds himself caught between a persistent police […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet)

Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet)

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

Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (France, 2023, 73 min., in French with English subtitles, digital) Friday-Saturday, July 26-27, 7:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet)

Chicken for Linda! (Linda veut du poulet)

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

Directed by Chiara Malta and Sébastien Laudenbach (France, 2023, 73 min., in French with English subtitles, digital) Friday-Saturday, July 26-27, 7:00 p.m. Brown Auditorium Theater Paulette feels guilty after unjustly punishing her daughter Linda and would do anything to make it up to her. Linda immediately asks for a meal of chicken with peppers, which […]

$7 – $9
Event Series The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

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

Directed by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1983, 140 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm) Sundays, July 28 & August 4, 5:00 p.m. (B) Adapted from the 1948 literary classic by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up […]

$7 – $9

Event Series Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

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

Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan, 2023, 106 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, digital) Thursday-Saturday, August 1-3, 7:00 p.m. (W) Widower Takumi and his daughter live in Mizubiki Village, a place of bucolic serenity near Tokyo that is threatened by urban developers planning a glamping site. Takumi lives with his daughter Hana among the locals […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

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

Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan, 2023, 106 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, digital) Thursday-Saturday, August 1-3, 7:00 p.m. (W) Widower Takumi and his daughter live in Mizubiki Village, a place of bucolic serenity near Tokyo that is threatened by urban developers planning a glamping site. Takumi lives with his daughter Hana among the locals […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

Evil Does Not Exist (Aku wa sonzai shinai)

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

Directed by Ryûsuke Hamaguchi (Japan, 2023, 106 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, digital) Thursday-Saturday, August 1-3, 7:00 p.m. (W) Widower Takumi and his daughter live in Mizubiki Village, a place of bucolic serenity near Tokyo that is threatened by urban developers planning a glamping site. Takumi lives with his daughter Hana among the locals […]

$7 – $9
Event Series The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)

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

Directed by Kon Ichikawa (Japan, 1983, 140 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, 35mm) Sundays, July 28 & August 4, 5:00 p.m. (B) Adapted from the 1948 literary classic by Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters follows the lives of four siblings who have taken on their family’s kimono manufacturing business, in the years leading up […]

$7 – $9

Pictures of Ghosts (Retratos Fantasmas)

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

Directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil, 2023, 93 min., in Portuguese with English subtitles, digital) Friday, August 9, 7:00 p.m. BROWN The latest from celebrated director Kleber Mendonça Filho (Bacurau) delves into the coastal city of Recife’s historical and human fabric, focusing on its iconic movie theaters that once served as hubs of social interaction […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

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

Directed by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1954, 207 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, August 10, 5:00 p.m. (B) Sunday, August 11, 2:00 p.m. (B) 70th Anniversary! One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors […]

$7 – $9
Event Series Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

Seven Samurai (Shichinin no samurai)

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

Directed by Akira Kurosawa (Japan, 1954, 207 min., in Japanese with English subtitles, digital restoration) Saturday, August 10, 5:00 p.m. (B) Sunday, August 11, 2:00 p.m. (B) 70th Anniversary! One of the most thrilling movie epics of all time, Seven Samurai tells the story of a sixteenth-century village whose desperate inhabitants hire the eponymous warriors […]

$7 – $9