The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts - San Angelo, TX- a museum with a variety of options in San Angelo, Texas

The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts can be found next to Riverstage on the Concho River off of Oakes Street at One Love Street. Admission to the museum is reasonable with adults only paying two dollars and senior citizens, children twelve and younger only paying a dollar. Admission to the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts is free of charge to the military, SAISD and ASU students and museum members.

There are three galleries in the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts. Two of the galleries have forty foot ceilings and a meeting room that can hold up to three hundred people. There is a large terrace on the roof with a view of the city. The public can make an appointment to use the research library found at the museum and the ceramic studios and classrooms provided in the educational wing.

The San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts owns the Coop Gallery located at 427 South Oakes Street. This gallery is sometimes available to rent for private visual arts exhibitions. The rooftop terrace and multi-purpose meeting room can also be rented. Information about both can be obtained by contacting the museum directly.

Fort Concho National Historic Landmark is where the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts was originally located in the Quartermaster Storehouse. Funds were raised for the restoration of the building when the Museum was made into a non-profit organization during July of 1981 and in 1985 it opened to the public. The Dallas Museum of Art, Library of Congress and National Portrait Gallery all lent major exhibits to the museum. Since the founding the San Angelo Museum has had over two-hundred-and-eighty exhibits, half of these were organized by the museum and publications were included in most of them. The new museum was begun during 1994 to move it to its present location which opened during 1999.

The multi-purpose meeting room found at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts has an adjoining professional kitchen. The center puts on a televised cooking show in addition to the other opportunities it offers the community. The meeting room holds City Council meetings, proms and even P.T.A. meetings making it vital to the community it serves.

The education wing at the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts has a ceramics studio because of the collaboration with the Angelo State University. The classrooms have large outdoor kilns adjacent to them; there is also a wide variety of continuing education for adults and undergraduate studies. The National Ceramic Competition, Chamber Music Series in addition to other programs and exhibits are also made possible by the relationship between the Angelo State University and San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.

The wide range of exhibits and programs that the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts provides make it a vital access to the community. Additional details about the programs offered and rental of the facilities at the museum can be obtained by contacting the museum directly. If you are ever in the San Angelo, Texas area you should make it a point to visit the San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts.