The San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA) is in Downtown San Antonio, Texas, USA. The museum spans 5,000 years of global culture. The Museum is housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewery (1886) on the Museum Reach of the San Antonio River Walk. Following a $7.2 million renovation, it opened to the public in March 1981.
In 1926, the San Antonio Museum Association founded the Witte Memorial Museum to collect various works of art and natural history objects. By the 1970s, the Witte Memorial Museum acquired notable works of art by artists such as Frank Stella, Wayne Thiebaud, and Philip Guston. Due to the growing pace of art acquisitions, Jack McGregor (former Director of the San Antonio Museum Association) recommended the board purchase the former Lone Star Brewery complex and split away from the Witte Memorial Museum. SAMA officially opened its doors to the public on March 1, 1981.
In 1985, it received Latin American Folk-Art collections formed by former Vice President Nelson A. Rockefeller and Robert K. Winn. The museum is situated in the northern section of the Riverwalk. With the opening of the Gloria Galt River Landing in 2009, it now anchors the “Museum Reach” expansion of the celebrated Riverwalk.
Collections
The museum’s collection of more than 30,000 objects representing 5,000 years of history and culture from every region of the world includes important works from Egyptian, Greek, and Roman antiquities, Asian art, Latin American art, and contemporary art.
Art of the Ancient Mediterranean World
The museum houses one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek, and Roman art in the southern United States. The Egyptian collection holds objects from the pre-dynastic period through the late Roman and Byzantine periods. It also houses an important and rare Greek and Roman sculpture collection that encompasses portraits, funerary sculpture, and mythological subjects. EZ Bed Bug Exterminator San Antonio
Asian Art
The Asian art collection is housed in the Lenora and Walter F. Brown Asian Art Wing, a 15,000 square foot suite of galleries that opened in 2005. Over the past 70 years, the Museum’s Asian art collections have grown to become one of the most impressive in the United States, including more than 1,500 works from China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.
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