5/30/2025
Today was museum day. I was planning on hitting up the Ft. Worth Museum of Modern Art since they are free on Fridays and the Museum of Science and History. I ended up going to two more art museums along the way.
I got downtown around noon, found a place to park, and walked to the Ft. Worth Museum of Modern Art. Modern art museums are a crap shoot for me. Some modern art I like, a lot of it is crap and not art. Luckily this was the former for the most part. Alex De Corte was their featured exhibit. I really liked his big poofy works. A few of the other highlights were the Kaws sculpture, a the chrome trees, and this neat ladder. I’ll post everything at the bottom so the text doesn’t get lost.
After MOMA I was going to go to the science museum, but I sat a sign saying the Kimbell Art Museum next door was always free. This is a European and historic art museum. This is more of what I like in an art museum. They had a bunch of masterworks from Michelangelo, Donatello, De Goya, Bellini, Picasso, Monet, and Gauguin. They had a sheep head statue part from 3000 BC, probably the oldest man made thing I’ve ever seen. The few Egyptian pieces were cool too.
Across the street was the Will Rogers Auditorium. I really liked the look of the tower for some reason. Anyway, I continued and saw the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, another free museum. This one focused on, you guessed it, American artists. There were a bunch of sculptures from Remington. That was the only artist that I recognized. I liked some of the art here, but I breezed through it pretty quickly.
I finally made my way to the Museum of Science and History. As soon as you walk in there is a huge beam from the World Trade Center. They stacked their main exhibits right in the front. As soon as you walk in, there is a huge Paluxysaurus skeleton. This is the official state dinosaur of Texas. The rest of the museum was very kid focused. The energy area was interesting. They had a vibroseis truck that is used to make 3D visualizations of geologic formations.
Fort Worth Cultural District
Ft. Worth Museum of Modern Art
Kimbell Art Museum
Amon Carter Museum of American Art
Museum of Science and History
