Kimbell Art Museum Kahn Building North Gallery

About this museum

Sunlight filtered through ingenious skylights, elegant concrete vaults soaring overhead, and some of the world's finest artworks glowing in perfectly calibrated natural illumination - the Kimbell Art Museum's Kahn Building North Gallery delivers an experience that is as much about how you see art as what you see. Situated at 3333 Camp Bowie Blvd in Fort Worth, this gallery within Louis Kahn's celebrated building offers free admission to the permanent collection, inviting everyone to engage with masterpieces from across the centuries.The North Gallery houses a portion of the Kimbell's internationally acclaimed holdings, which range from Egyptian and Classical antiquities to Renaissance paintings and Asian decorative arts. Each work has been positioned with extraordinary sensitivity to its relationship with the surrounding architecture, so that a Caravaggio or a Cezanne is experienced not in isolation but as part of a seamless dialogue between art, light, and space. It is this holistic approach to display that has made the Kimbell one of the most admired art museums in the world.Kahn designed the building so that no two moments of light are quite the same; visit in the morning and the galleries have one character, return in the afternoon and they have another. This living quality keeps even the permanent collection feeling fresh with each visit.The museum is open Tuesday through Thursday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Friday from noon to 8:00 p.m., Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Sunday from noon to 5:00 p.m. Accessible parking, a barrier - free entrance, and accessible restrooms serve the entire campus.For art enthusiasts, architecture lovers, and anyone seeking free things to do in Fort Worth, the Kahn Building North Gallery is an unmissable destination. It stands as proof that a free museum can rival any institution on the planet - and that the simple act of looking at a painting can become transcendent when the building itself is a work of art.