The Menil Collection

Stroll a 30-acre leafy campus of free galleries holding surrealist paintings, a Cy Twombly gallery and a Dan Flavin light installation.

1533 Sul Ross St · Houston, TX

About The Menil Collection

The Menil Collection grew from the art of John and Dominique de Menil and opened in 1987 in a Renzo Piano building in Houston's Montrose area. The 30-acre campus also holds the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Menil Drawing Institute and a Dan Flavin installation at Richmond Hall. Galleries are lit through the roof, and only a small share of the collection is shown at once, so displays rotate. It holds more than 1,000 works by Max Ernst and paintings by Rene Magritte.

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