Home to five world-class museums in a beautiful park-like setting, the Fort Worth Cultural District is an ideal place to relax, explore incredible art such as Michelangelo's first painting in the Kimbell Art Museum and enjoy family-friendly and free events such as Day in the District - each September. Each Fort Worth Cultural District museum and attraction is offering free admission, September 27, 2014. See you there!

About the Fort Worth Cultural District:

Located a few miles west of downtown is one of the largest arts districts in the nation. The Fort Worth Cultural District features five internationally recognized museums in a beautiful park-like setting. The museums are acclaimed for their architecture, quality collections and programs. This remarkable collection of museums in a single location has made Fort Worth a major destination for art lovers.

Kimbell Art Museum and the new Renzo Piano Pavilion

The Kimbell Art Museum is known as "America's best small museum" and is the permanent home to Michelangelo's first painting, The Torment of Saint Anthony. The Kimbell offers a world-class collection of art, with masterpieces from antiquity to the 20th century, including works by El Greco, Cezanne, Rembrandt, Picasso, and Matisse. The museum also regularly hosts major traveling exhibitions.  The Kimbell building, designed by the great American architect Louis Kahn, is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding public art buildings.

Piano Pavilion at the Kimbell

Located across the lawn from the museum's original home – a modernist icon designed by Louis Kahn – the distance between the two buildings was quoted as “close enough for a conversation, not too close and not too far away” by architect Renzo Piano. The $125 million pavilion is made of glass, concrete, and wood and surrounded by elms and red oaks. The Piano Pavilion stands as an expression of simplicity and lightness some 65 yards west of Kahn's vaulted, luminous museum landmark of 1972.

National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

The National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, the only museum in the world dedicated to honoring and documenting the lives of women who have distinguished themselves while exemplifying the pioneer spirit of the American West. From hardworking cowgirls to influential women like Sandra Day O'Connor, Georgia O'Keefe, Annie Oakley and others who have contributed to the advancement of Western heritage through arts, sciences, politics, business and education. Kids will love the interactive Bronc ride and look at one of their favorite animated cowgirls, Jesse from Disney's Toy Story.

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

One of the most stunning pieces at the Modern is the building itself, a landmark design by modernist Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The building became home to the Modern in 2002. The permanent collection concentrates on European art since 1920 and American art since 1945, and includes works by Francis Bacon, Anselm Kiefer, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Cindy Sherman, and Andy Warhol. Plan your visit around lunch time, as the seasonal dishes at Café Modern are creative masterpieces themselves.

Amon Carter Museum of American Art

Designed by renowned architect Philip Johnson, the Amon Carter houses a preeminent collection of nineteenth- and twentieth-century paintings, sculpture, works on paper, and is one of the nation's major repositories of American photography. Artists represented in the collection include Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, Georgia O'Keeffe and John Singer Sargent. The museum is home to nearly 400 works by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, the two greatest artists of the American West. Visitors can enjoy family-friendly programming throughout the year. Lectures, workshops and films provide a wonderful way for adults to connect with American art. Admission is free. 

Fort Worth Museum of Science and History

The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History opened its new $80 million facility designed by Legoretta + Legoretta in November 2009.  Adding to the rich architectural legacy of Fort Worth's Cultural District, the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History is dazzling with its bright colors, geometric forms, and abundant natural light. To strengthen the museum's presentation of history, the expansion incorporates a major new center for the Cattle Raisers Museum. Exhibits also include DinoLabs; Paluxysaurus jonesi, the official dinosaur of Texas; the Noble Planetarium; the Fort Worth Children's Museum; Innovation Studios; six glass-walled spaces near the main entrance offering hands-on demonstrations; and the Omni Imax Theater. 

For more information visit FortWorth.com or contact Jessica Dowdy, Director of Public Relations at jessicadowdy@fortworth.com