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True West Magazine named it the number one Western art museum in the country for 2025. That's the credential. The Museum of Western Art sits in Kerrville, about an hour from San Antonio, dedicated to collecting and promoting Western heritage through painting, sculpture, and rotating exhibitions. The annual Roundup — an invitational exhibition and sale now in its fifth decade — draws artists working in the Western genre from across the country. Free admission for active and former military, first responders, and museum professionals. Worth the drive.
Quick facts
- ·The Museum of Western Art is located in Kerrville, Texas (not Bandera), and opened April 23, 1983, originally as the Cowboy Artists of America Museum, intended to serve as the headquarters of the Cowboy Artists of America. [Confirmed via direct fetch of the cited Wikipedia article, checked three times.]
- ·The museum was founded by collectors L.D. Brinkman (a local cattle breeder and manufacturer) and Robert R. Shelton (an heir to the King Ranch); oilman William F. Roden and his wife Carolyn, of Midland, donated the roughly 10-acre site adjacent to the Riverhill Country Club in Kerrville where the museum stands. [Confirmed via direct fetch of the cited museumofwesternart.com About page, which states this near-verbatim.]
- ·Editorial/writer note: the museum is physically located in Kerrville, a separate Texas Hill Country town from Bandera; any destination content framing it as regional Hill Country context (not as being in Bandera itself) is factually consistent with the confirmed Wikipedia location data.
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