Established | 1965 |
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Location | Southern Methodist University 5900 Bishop Boulevard Dallas, Texas 75205 |
Coordinates | 32°50′18″N 96°47′03″W / 32.8384°N 96.7843°W |
Type | Art museum |
Key holdings | Sibyl with Tabula Rasa (1648) Yard with Lunatics (1794) |
Visitors | 50,000+ annually (as of 2015)[1] |
Founder | Algur H. Meadows |
Director | Amanda W. Dotseth |
Owner | Meadows School of the Arts Southern Methodist University |
Public transit access | DART light rail: (via Mockingbird station) |
Website | www.meadowsmuseumdallas.org |
The Meadows Museum, nicknamed "Prado on the Prairie", is a two-story, 66,000 sq. ft.[2]art museum in Dallas, Texas on the campus of Southern Methodist University (SMU). Operating as a division of SMU's Meadows School of the Arts, the museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Spanish art outside of Spain, with works dating from the 10th to the 21st centuries.