Opened
to the public in 1987, The Menil Collection is the primary repository of John and Dominique
de Menil’s private collection, an idiosyncratic mix of nearly 17,000 works in
the areas of Antiquity, Byzantine and Medieval, African, Oceanic, and Native
American, and Twentieth-Century art (with a concentration in Surrealism). The archives include the
records of the Menil Foundation, including exhibition history from 1951 to the
present, papers of scholars and artists, and Special Collections, including the Rene Magritte catalogue
raisonné papers