The Menil Collection main museum building located at 1533 Sul Ross Street, while a few satellite buildings are within a short walk on the 30-acre Menil Campus.
The satellite buildings include the Cy Twombly Gallery, the Byzantine Fresco Chapel, the Dan Flavin Installation at Richmond Hall, the new Drawing Institute, and the Rothko Chapel located in Menil Park.
Spanning the prehistoric era to the present day, the Menil’s collection of some 17,000 works includes arts of Africa, the Pacific Islands, and the Americas and Pacific Northwest as well as arts of the ancient world and collections of surrealism, medieval and Byzantine art, and contemporary works.
Exhibitions & Dates
Art of the Cameroon Grassfields, A Living Heritage in Houston
Feb 17 2023 - Jul 9 2023
Celebrates the enduring artistic traditions from Cameroon and its global diaspora
The Curatorial Imagination of Walter Hopps
Mar 24 2023 - Aug 13 2023
Approximately sixty artists and more than 130 artworks
Si Lewen: The Parade
Apr 21 2023 - Sep 3 2023
An epic series of sixty-three drawings witness the horrors of WWII
Hyperreal: Gray Foy
Apr 21 2023 - Sep 3 2023
His early Surrealist compositions to his later inventive botanical and geological renderings
Chryssa & New York
Sep 29 2023 - Mar 10 2024
Innovative art made while Chryssa was living in New York City (late 1950s - early 1970s)
The Iconic Portrait Strand by Nestor Topchy
Aug 4 2023 - Jan 21 2024
100+ portraits of friends and colleagues resemble Byzantine icons
Ruth Asawa Through Line
Mar 22 2024 - Jul 21 2024
Explores Asawa's lifelong daily drawing practice