Meadows Museum

Meadows Museum
Museum entrance along Bishop Boulevard
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Established1965; 59 years ago (1965)
LocationSouthern Methodist University
5900 Bishop Boulevard
Dallas, Texas 75205
Coordinates32°50′18″N 96°47′03″W / 32.8384°N 96.7843°W / 32.8384; -96.7843
TypeArt museum
Key holdingsSibyl with Tabula Rasa (1648)
Yard with Lunatics (1794)
Visitors50,000+ annually (as of 2015)[1]
FounderAlgur H. Meadows
DirectorAmanda W. Dotseth
OwnerMeadows School of the Arts
Southern Methodist University
Public transit accessDART light rail: (via Mockingbird station)
Websitewww.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.

  1. ^ "SMU Meadows Museum: Celebrating 50 Years" (PDF). The Dallas Morning News. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. ^ "Mission and History – Meadows Museum, Dallas". Retrieved 2022-09-21.