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Dallas Museum of Art
The Dallas Museum of Art is
located in the arts area of downtown Dallas, Texas, and started back
in 1903, as the Dallas Art Association; hanging their collection of
paintings in the public library. In 1909, it acquired a permanent
place in the Free Public Art Gallery of Texas in Fair Park. It was
then renamed the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and moved into a new art
deco building in Fair Park, where it stayed from 1936 until 1984;
merging with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art in 1963. In 1979,
Dallas citizens voted for $24.8 million to build a new museum
building in the arts district downtown Dallas, which opened in 1984,
being renamed to its current name. It had to expand in 1984, 1989
and 1993, bringing the total square footage to 350,000 sitting on
8.9 acres of landscaping. It contains over 23,000 artworks from
around the globe that spans from the ancient times to the current
era. It is held in the Hamon Building collection and does include
the Wendy and Emery Reves collection, plus contemporary, decorative
arts relics and an expansive African collection.
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