El Paso Museum of Art

Address:1 Arts Festival Plaza
El Paso, Texas
Tel: (915) 532-1707

Spend an afternoon with Bellotto, Canaletto and Artemisia Gentileschi! Enjoy stunning Pre-Columbian and Mexican colonial art, as well as landscapes and personal portraits which evoke the real look and feel of El Paso.

Established in 1947, the El Paso Museum of Art houses permanent exhibits with more than 5,000 pieces of art, as well an extensive collection of contemporary art from the southwestern United States and Mexico. Visitors can explore 5 permanent galleries, three of which are dedicated to the cultures that have commingled in El Paso for the last 400 years: one to Mexican art of the 17th to 19th centuries, one to European art from the 13th to 18th centuries, and one to American works dating from 1800 to the mid-1900s. The permanent collection includes works by artists such as Manuel Gregorio Acosta, Frank Duveneck, Childe Hassam, George Inness, Rembrandt Peale, Frederic Remington, and Gilbert Stuart. The life-sized dioramas will thrill visitors of all ages.

The El Paso Museum of Art also offers a refreshing rotation of temporary exhibitions, films, lectures, concerts, and other programs to the general public as well as studio art classes, camps and workshops, available to adults, children and families. Free tours of the permanent collection and changing exhibitions are conducted by docents in English and Spanish. The museum is located at One Arts Festival Plaza, in El Paso.

The Museum houses a permanent collection of more than 5,000 works of art, including the Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art from the 13th-18th centuries, American art from the 19th-20th centuries, Mexican colonial art and retablos from the 18th-19th centuries, works on paper, and contemporary art from the Southwestern United States and Mexico