McNay Art Museum: Experience Transformation Through Art
The McNay Art Museum invites visitors to experience transformation through art across its 25-acre campus in San Antonio. As the first modern art museum in Texas, the McNay offers moments of surprise, inspiration, and beauty through an impressive collection that has grown to over 22,000 works since its founding by Marion Koogler McNay.
Visitors can explore eight new exhibitions and hundreds of modern and contemporary artworks from the renowned Permanent Collection. The museum houses exceptional collections including Medieval and Renaissance art, 19th through 21st-century paintings, sculptures, and photographs, one of the finest collections of prints and drawings in the Southwest, the extraordinary Tobin Collection of Theatre Arts, and the distinctive Jeanne and Irving Mathews Collection of Art Glass.
The museum's Spanish Colonial-Revival house, designed by San Antonio architects Atlee and Robert Ayres, forms the historic core of the institution. The addition of the Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions in 2008 expanded the museum by 45,000 square feet, creating space for major exhibitions, a sculpture gallery and garden, a lecture hall, and classrooms for educational programs.
The McNay Art Museum stands as San Antonio's place of belonging, where the expanding community is reflected in transformational art experiences. With its commitment to engaging diverse communities in the discovery and enjoyment of the visual arts, the McNay continues to deliver outstanding artistic and educational programs while advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the organization.
