The El Paso Museum of Art is the museum of the City of El Paso and a major cultural and educational resource for the surrounding region. Located on the boundary of Texas, Mexico and New Mexico, the Museum is situated within the world’s largest international border community with a metropolitan population of 3 million people.

The Museum, which opened a new 104,000 sq. ft. building in downtown El Paso in 1998, houses a permanent collection of more than 6,000 works of art.

• Samuel H. Kress Collection of European art from the 13 th-18 th centuries
• American art from the 18 th-21 st centuries
• Mexican colonial art from the 18 th-19 th centuries
• Contemporary art form the Southwestern United States and Mexico

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