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The Menil Collection, Houston, TX

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The Menil Collection

The Menil Collection is a museum in Houston, TX, part of the Houston & Galveston guide. Cost: free.

1533 Sul Ross St · Houston, TX

Why you should go…

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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