Private-Event Rentals
Host Your Next Event at the MFAH
Caroline Wiess Law Building
The Caroline Wiess Law Building is home to the largest entertaining space at the Museum. Cullinan Hall is perfect for large corporate dinners, holiday parties, and wedding receptions.
Maximum Capacity
Reception: 750
Seated Dinner: 350
Rentals starting at $10,500
Audrey Jones Beck Building
The Audrey Jones Beck Building has a wide variety of entertaining galleries, perfect for cocktail parties or intimate dinners. This building is also the ideal setting for hosting both wedding ceremonies and receptions of up to 150 guests.
Maximum Capacity
Reception: 350
Seated Dinner: 150
Rentals starting at $10,500
Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building is devoted to the display of the Museum’s international collections of modern and contemporary art. It is ideally suited for dinners, cocktail parties, and wedding receptions.
Maximum Capacity
Reception: 300
Seated Dinner: 250
Rentals starting at $10,500
Glassell School of Art
The Glassell School of Art is an excellent venue for cocktail parties and receptions. Weather permitting, limited elements may take place on the PNC Roof Garden.
Maximum Capacity
Standing Reception: 200
Seated Dinner: 120
Rentals starting at $7,500
Brown Auditorium Theater
Brown Auditorium Theater provides excellent sight lines to the stage from all 320 of its fixed seats and offers sophisticated audio-visual capabilities, with state-of-the-art equipment for projection of digital and 35mm films. The MFAH is the only space in Houston playing reel-to-reel films.
Maximum Capacity
Theater style: 320
Rentals starting at $4,500
Lynn Wyatt Theater
Maximum Capacity
Theater style: 230
Rentals starting at $3,500
Lora Jean Kilroy Visitor & Education Center at Bayou Bend
Bayou Bend’s award-winning Kilroy Visitor Center is a popular setting for receptions, meetings, and parties. The sleek glass-and-steel architecture offers light-filled spaces, a two-story lobby, and beautiful views. At night, exterior lighting provides a surrounding glow. Added features include exhibitions and a media wall.
The Visitor Center serves as a modern gateway to historic Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens. The Visitor Center is just four miles from downtown or the Galleria, easily reached via Memorial Drive, Allen Parkway, Loop 610, or I-10. Political, commercial, fundraising, and religious events (including wedding ceremonies) are not permitted.
Learn more about capacity and amenities. For information about booking the Visitor Center, contact Lavinia Ignat, 713-639-7758.
Outdoor Photography Permits
Outdoor photography permits are available for formal photography requests intended for personal, noncommercial use only.
Permits allow for photography in the outdoor areas of the Museum only, and include the Cullen Sculpture Garden; Brown Foundation, Inc. Plaza; PNC Roof Garden; Cullen Foundation Promenade; and South Lawn.
Photo shoots are not permitted inside any Museum buildings or at Rienzi. Examples of photo shoots include, but are not limited to, bridal portraits, engagement photos, graduation photos, and holiday family photos. If you have any questions, please contact [email protected] or 713.639.7754.
Private Proposal Package
Say YES! to the Private Proposal Package and pop the question among the Museum’s masterpieces.
The package includes private gallery access for the couple and guest/friend or photographer and ALL ACCESS tickets to explore the Special Exhibitions and extraordinary Permanent Collections, creating the memory of a lifetime.
Contact [email protected] for more information or to schedule a tour of the available gallery spaces.