Menil Collection To Close For Eight Months In 2018

HOUSTON, TX — If you plan to visit the Menil Collection, as thousands of people do each month, do so before February 26 next year, because after that you'll have to wait for eight months. The Collection's pine floors will be sanded and refinished during that time, part of a maintenance program that will also include the installation of a new fire-detection system.

The other buildings in the Menil complex will remain open and operate on their normal schedules, include the Cy Twombly Gallery, the soon-to-open Menil Drawing Institute, and the Byzantine Fresco Chapel.

Rebecca Rabinow, the director of the Menial Collection, is planning something big for when the museum reopens after the project: a "full on" show of the permanent collection that will feature some works that have never before been exhibited.

"That's the fun part – the curators going deep," she told the Houston Chronicle.

The Menil Collection is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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