By the close of the 1960s, the Museum's programs and audiences had outgrown the 1950 facility, and the trustees secured capital funds and a prominent site on the corner of Montrose and Bissonnet where the new building, designed by Gunnar Birkerts, was built. In 1972, the present facility opened with the controversial exhibition Ten, which featured several artists working in non-traditional media.

In the 1990s, the Museum sharpened its focus, concentrating on art made within the past 40 years and extending its reach internationally. The new millennium was celebrated by the Museum with a look back at some of the most arresting and important installations of the previous decade in the exhibition Outbound: Passages from the Nineties. Other thematic exhibitions of the new century have included Afterimage: Drawing Through Process; Subject Plural; and The Inward Eye.

One-person shows have focused on groundbreaking figures in all media and have included Uta Barth; When One is Two: The Art of Alighiero e Boetti; William Kentridge and Juan Muñoz.

Visitors to the CAMH should be sure to stop by The Museum Shop at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston before leaving. There, guests will find an impressive assortment of artist and designer-made items, books, accessories and educational toys for kids.

Hours:

Wednesday 11am-7pm

Thursday 11am-9pm

Friday 11am-7pm

Saturday-Sunday 11am-6pm.