Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, a house museum for American decorative arts and paintings, Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston civic leader and philanthropist Ima Hogg. The museum houses one of the finest showcases of American furnishings, silver, ceramics and paintings in the world. Situated on 14 acres of organically maintained heavily wooded gardens in Houston’s historic River Oaks neighborhood, Bayou Bend includes eight formal gardens along Buffalo Bayou that are each unique in their own way. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess and muse that presides over their area—Clio, Diana and Euterpe—while the others are named White, East, Butterfly and Carla.

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