20 remarkable years have passed since the Meadows Museum opened its ‘new’ building

It’s hard to believe, but 20 years have passed since the Meadows Museum opened its “new” building on the campus of Southern Methodist University. To commemorate this event, Meadows is holding “Building on the Boulevard: Celebrating 20 Years of the Meadows’ New Home”. But that’s not all. There is also an accompanying exhibition called “Fossils to Film: The Best of SMU’s Collections”. Both run until June 20th.

Salvador Dali, (Spanish, 1904 1989), “The Fish Man (L’homme poisson), 1930.” Meadow Museum, SMU, Dallas. Museum purchase with funds from the Meadows Foundation, Holly Bock, Doug Deason, Mrs. Eugene McDermott, Linda P. and William A. Custard, and Gwen and Richard Irwin; MM.2014.11. Photo by Brad Flowers.
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When the new building opened in March 2001 – six months before the 9/11 attack – the Meadows welcomed King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia of Spain for the occasion. They came from Madrid because Meadows is known worldwide for its collection of Spanish masterpieces created by artists such as Velázquez, Ribera, El Greco, Murillo, Goya, Miró, Picasso and Dalí.

The opening exhibition in 2001 featured the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who designed the Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge near downtown Dallas, and Wave, the oceanic sculpture in front of the meadows.

Spain's King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia are greeted at Dallas Love Field upon their arrival in Dallas on March 29, 2001.  Her visit to Dallas focused on the Southern Methodist University's new building for the Meadows Museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside of her country.Spain’s King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia are greeted at Dallas Love Field upon their arrival in Dallas on March 29, 2001. Her visit to Dallas focused on the Southern Methodist University’s new building for the Meadows Museum, which houses one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside of her country.(DAVIDSON, Barbara / 153882)

In the two decades since moving from the Owen Arts Center to its 66,000-square-foot building on Bishop Boulevard, the Meadows have acquired more than 200 works of art, including Francisco de Goya’s portrait of Mariano Goya, the artist’s grandson (1827th). ); Mariano Fortuny y Marsal beach in Portici (1874); Salvador Dalí’s The Fish Man (L’homme poisson) (1930) and the earliest painting in the collection today, Pere Valls Saints Benedict and Onuphrius (around 1410). Visitors to the Meadows over the years have included former President George W. Bush and former First Lady Laura Bush and even the Dalai Lama.

The accompanying exhibition “Fossils to Film” offers highlights from nine campus collections. Only one of these shows the only surviving footage of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 1963 speech in Dallas.

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The Meadows Museum is located at Southern Methodist University, 5900 Bishop Blvd. in Dallas. $ 12, with discounts, wiesenmuseumdallas.org, 214-768-2516.

CORRECTION, May 11, 5 p.m .: This story has been revised to reflect that Martin Luther King, Jr. spoke in Dallas in 1963, did not speak on the SMU campus during that trip.

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