San Antonio Museum of Art – Virtual Tour

The San Antonio Museum of Art offers an art collection spanning 5,000 years of global culture. The museum opened in 1981, housed in the historic former Lone Star Brewery (1886) situated on the San Antonio River Walk.

The museum’s collection of over 30,000 objects represents the history and culture of every region of the world.

The museum houses one of the most comprehensive collections of ancient Egyptian, Near Eastern, Greek and Roman art in the southern United States.

The Egyptian collection holds objects from the Pre-dynastic through the late Roman and Byzantine periods.

The Greek and Roman collection of sculpture include portraits, funerary statues, and mythological subjects.

The Asian art collection includes over 1,500 works from China, India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mongolia, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Tibet, and Vietnam.

The Latin American collection includes artwork from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

The museum’s Contemporary collection is devoted to post-World War II American painting and sculpture.

Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon by Julian Onderdonk, 1915

Highlights of the San Antonio Museum of Art

Admiration by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1897
The Art Iranian collection
The Art of India collection
The Holy Family by Giuliano Bugiardini, 1530
Going to see Grandma by William Merritt, 1889
Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness by Luca Giordano, 1660
Bluebonnets at Late Afternoon by Julian Onderdonk, 1915
The Gypsy Princesses by Narcisse Diaz de la Peña, 1870

The Holy Family by Giuliano Bugiardini, 1530

San Antonio Museum of Art (SAMA)

Museum: San Antonio Museum of Art
City: San Antonio
State: Texas
Country: United States
Built: 1981
Type: Art Museum
Location: 200 W Jones Ave, San Antonio, TX, United States

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