Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
Visiting the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
During your visit to this Fort Worth, Texas attraction, explore modern art through the Museum’s permanent collections and special exhibitions. The art museum offers dining and shopping in Café Modern and the Modern Shop.
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth Collection Highlights
The Modern collection numbers over 3,000 works of art spanning from 1945 to the present and includes paintings, sculptures, videos, photographs and prints from all major international movements: Abstract Expressionism; British, German, French, and American Pop; Color Field Painting; Minimalism; Conceptualism; Post-Minimalism; New Image Painting; and Neo-Expressionism. Highlights within the collection include: Tau and Threshold by Carl Andre, Catherine by Sean Scully, The Brown Sisters by Nicholas Nixon, Seestücke—Welle by Gerhard Richter; Cornwall Summer Circle by Richard Long, The Ark by Melissa Miller, Mr. Bellamy by Roy Lichtenstein, Swingeing London 67 by Richard Hamilton, Masqued Image by Jackson Pollock, Private Africa by Vernon Fisher, Girl with Flowered Background by Richard Diebenkorn and After Matisse by Howard Hodgkin.
Dining at Café Modern
Enjoy a snack or lunch at Café Modern. Featuring a menu made with fresh, naturally produced ingredients, Café Modern blends seasonal foods from local artisan producers with diverse culinary traditions from around the globe. From the Moroccan chicken salad to the classic BLT and basil-ricotta gnudi, choose from a selection of daily soups, salads and sandwiches as well as hot entrées. For dessert enjoy sorbet with shortbread, peaches and crème brûlée, or white chocolate banana pudding.
Shop the Modern Shop
Be sure to stop by the Modern Shop. From Akari lamps to a selection of books and media, gifts and keepsakes related to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s permanent collection and special exhibitions are available to purchase.
Travel Tips
- The Modern is ADA compliant. Complimentary wheelchairs are available from the Coat Check on a first-come, first-served basis.
- The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth regularly hosts special exhibitions. Examples of past exhibitions have included México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990; Declaring Space: Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein; and Ron Mueck: A Virtuoso of Hyperrealist Sculpture.
- In order to showcase the full range of its holdings and to accommodate important special exhibitions, works from the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth’s permanent collection are occasionally taken off view.
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Explore art at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the oldest art museum in Texas and one of the oldest museums in the American West, as part of this group motorcoach vacation package. Located in Fort Worth, Texas’ celebrated Cultural District, directly opposite the Kimbell Art Museum, the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth was originally opened in 1892 as the Fort Worth Public Library and Art Gallery. Today the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth is dedicated to collecting, presenting and interpreting international developments in post World War II art in all media and promoting understanding and interest in art and artists through curatorial research, publications and a variety of educational programs, including lectures, guided tours, classes, and workshops.
