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Events

Drop-in Tour | Boxes, Containers, and Chests

Date & Time

Thu. Oct. 01, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 08, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 15, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 22, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 29, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Events

Drop-in Tour | Boxes, Containers, and Chests

Date & Time

Thu. Oct. 01, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 08, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 15, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 22, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM
Thu. Oct. 29, 2026 1:30 PM-2:30 PM

Location Main Campus | Law Building

Parking at Beck Garage
Drop off at Beck Building

Take a tour through Africa, Asia, and the Americas and consider what was once inside the vast array of boxes, containers, jars, chests, and coffers in the MFAH collections.

Plan Your Visit

Email Your Questions [email protected]

Learning and Interpretation programs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, receive generous support from H-E-B; Sempra Foundation; the Brown Foundation, Inc.; the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo; the Joe Barnhart Foundation; the Cockrell Family Fund; the CFP Foundation; the Claire & Theodore Morse Foundation; the Junior League of Houston, Inc.; and additional generous donors.
 
Endowment funds are provided by the Louise Jarrett Moran Bequest; Caroline Wiess Law; Windgate Foundation; the William Randolph Hearst Foundation; Cyvia and Melvyn Wolff; the Fondren Foundation; BMC Software, Inc.; the Wallace Foundation; the Neal Myers and Ken Black Children’s Art Fund; the Eleanor and Frank Freed Foundation; Medha and Shashank Karve; Virginia and Ira Jackson; Jesse H. Jones II; the CFP Foundation; the Favrot Fund; gifts in memory of John Wynne; Neiman Marcus Youth Arts Education; gifts in memory of Peter Lotz; and gifts in honor of Beth Schneider.
 
On Thursdays, admission to the MFAH Permanent Collections is free, courtesy of Shell USA, Inc.