Cultural Fort Worth, TX
Fort Worth is the fifth largest city in Texas and the seventeenth largest city in the United States of America. Fort Worth is part of the greater area known as Dallas / Fort Worth. This city is located in the north west part of the state of Texas and is considered the cultural gateway to the west. The Fort Worth area covers in excess of three hundred square miles.
Fort Worth was established as a protective army out post in 1849 on a bluff over looking the Trinity river. By the 1840′s many Americans from the east were moving westward thus increasing populations were coming to the area from eastern states.
Texas was an independent republic for 9 years after the Mexican American War prior to its annexation as the 28th state in December of 1845. With westward expansion, cattle ranching and finally the oil boom if the mid to late twenth centuries Fort Worth grew into a major metropolitan area combining Arlington, Dallas and Fort Worth.
Today Fort Worth is a cultural capitol in the west. Home of the Kimbell Collection, one of the most unique museums in the world. The Kimbell Collection has maintained an extraordinary art collection mainly due to its collecting philosophy. The collections size is never to be grown, the number of pieces the museum has in the beginning is the number of pieces the museum has today. The only changes in the permanent collection are for pieces of work that are of a higher quality of one already in the collection. For example the Van Gough in the collection will remain unless the museum is able to acquire a ‘better’ Van Gough painting. Then the current painting is replaced with the ‘better’ painting. This philosophy of upgrading and not growing has made for one of the most amazing collections in the world, every piece is a master piece. When staying at a Fort Worth luxury hotels inquire about the changing exhibit at the Kimbell. The changing exhibit space is larger than the permanent collection space and hosts a vast array of traveling exhibits.
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