In 1984 the DMA moved to its present location, the 370,000-square-foot Edward Larrabee Barnes–designed constructing, as the primary arts group in the Dallas Arts District. The Museum’s global collection contains over 24,000 works of art spanning 5,000 years of human creativity. The museum’s collections are encyclopedic in nature, with pieces ranging in date from 5000 BC to 2012 AD. The museum’s energy is in Spanish works by Murillo, Zurbarán, Cotán, Ribera and El Greco.

Due to construction within the area around the Gothenburg Museum of Art, blasts happen at regular intervals. The museum is closed on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, …