Hirsch Library
Hirsch Library is moving!
The library is temporarily closed for the move to a new reading room on the lower level of the Beck Building. We look forward to welcoming you to our new facility in late summer 2022. The staff remains committed to assisting with art information. Contact hirsch@mfah.org or 713.639.7325 with any questions.
Since the 1920s, the Hirsch Library has served the Museum staff, art researchers, college students, and the public by collecting, providing access to, and preserving information about the visual arts.
Visiting the Hirsch Library is free of charge to all individuals interested in visual-arts research.
The Hirsch Library is closed on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and the following holidays. Before selected holiday weekends, the library closes at 5 p.m. on Thursday and is closed on Saturday. Call or email for more information.
- New Year’s Day
- Martin Luther King Jr. Day
- Good Friday and Easter
- Memorial Day
- Independence Day
- Labor Day
- Thanksgiving Weekend: Thursday–Sunday
- Christmas Day
The MFAH Hirsch Library is generously endowed through the Estates of Winifred and Maurice Hirsch.
Hours
- Sunday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Monday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Tuesday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Wednesday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Thursday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Friday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed
- Saturday
- CLOSEDTemporarily Closed