The Dallas Museum of Art was founded in 1903 by the Dallas Art Association, with May Dickson Exall championing the idea. It became the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in 1932, moved to Fair Park in 1936 and merged with the Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art in 1963. The current building, designed by Edward Larrabee Barnes, opened in January 1984. The article gives no style or materials, and the cost was $54 million, funded by a 1979 city bond election and private donations.
It has 159,000 square feet (14,800 m²) of exhibition space, including the Center for Creative Connections at 12,000 square feet (1,100 m²) and the Reves collection room at 15,000 square feet (1,400 m²).
The museum holds more than 24,000 objects and a library of over 50,000 volumes. Admission and membership have been free since 2013. In 2023 Nieto Sobejano was chosen for a reimagining project with a budget of $150 to $175 million.
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