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.
Read our review of the Menil Collection here. Spoiler alert: We loved it!
Exhibitions & Dates
John Akomfrah: The Hour Of The Dog
Apr 24 2026 - Oct 11 2026
Six-channel video explores the history of youth-led Civil Rights–era non-violent activism
Southern Outsider Artists
May 6 2026 - Dec 13 2026
Paintings and assemblage sculptures by self-taught artists from the American South
Fragility
Sep 10 2026 - Jan 24 2027
Highlights the variable characteristics of paper as an artistic material
Wall Drawing Series: Jitish Kallat
Sep 10 2026 - Aug 8 2027
A leading figure in contemporary Indian art
Terry Winters: Vitalized Geometry
Sep 25 2026 - Apr 4 2027
44 prints and works on paper inspired by mathematical structures of the natural world
How to Make an Exhibition: The Story of Jermayne MacAgy
Dec 11 2026 - Jul 18 2027
Honors the impact and legacy of the late curator, art historian, and museum director
D’MBA: Beauty, Desire, and Collecting an African Mask
May 13 2027 - Oct 31 2027
Focused exhibition presents the large wood headdresses of Guinea, West Africa.
Sedona Surreal: Max Ernst and Dorothea Tanning in the American Southwest
Sep 17 2027 - Mar 12 2028
Explores the construction of artistic modernism far from a large urban center