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In the elegant Montrose neighbourhood about three miles south-west of downtown Houston, the Menil Collection is one of the most architecturally distinctive private art museums in the United States. The museum opened in June 1987 to house the extraordinary 17,000-piece private art collection assembled over five decades by the Houston-based oil-industry philanthropists John and Dominique de Menil. The original museum building was designed by the celebrated Italian architect Renzo Piano with the Ne...