Amon Carter Museum
Amon Carter Museum is a museum in Texas, at a modelled elevation of 190 m. Tater Nob stands 344 m to the west-southwest, 23 miles off. The nearest named place is Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion West Gallery, a museum 0.1 miles away. Texas Lakes Trail passes 5.1 miles off. 17 named summits stand within 25 miles.
The story
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (also known as the Carter) is located in the cultural district of Fort Worth, Texas, United States. The museum's permanent collection features paintings, photography, sculpture, and works on paper by leading artists working in the United States and its North American territories in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The greatest concentration of works falls into the period from the 1820s through the 1940s. Photographs, prints, and other works on paper produced up to the present day are also an area of strength in the museum's holdings. The collection was built on portrayals of the Old West by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell, artworks depicting nineteenth-century expansionism and settlement of the North American continent, and masterworks that are emblematic of major turning points in American art history. The "full spectrum" of American photography is documented by 45,000 exhibition-quality prints, dating from the earliest years of the medium to the present. A rotating selection of works from the permanent collection is on view year-round during regular museum hours, and several thousand of these works can be studied online using the Collection tab on the Carter's official website. Museum admission for all exhibits, including special exhibits, is free. The Amon Carter Museum of American Art opened in 1961 as the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. The museum's original collection of more than 300 works of art by Frederic Remington and Charles M. Russell was assembled by Fort Worth newspaper publisher and philanthropist Amon G. Carter Sr. (1879–1955). Carter spent the last ten years of his life laying the legal, financial, and philosophical groundwork for the museum's creation.
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Dates from 1961-01.
Wikidata Q255559, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What to expect
How to reach it
- 5.1 mi off the Texas Lakes Trail
Overlooks nearby
Named places within 25 miles
- Herbert M. Hinckley: 0.2 mi
- Southwestern Exposition and Livestock Show: 0.4 mi
- Fort Worth 2000 Tornado Memorial: 0.5 mi
- Arbor Day Grove: 0.6 mi
- The Van Zandt Cottage: 0.6 mi
- Will Rogers Coliseum: 0.2 mi
- Amon G. Carter, Jr. Exhibits Hall: 0.3 mi
- Burnett Building: 0.3 mi
- Livestock Barns: 0.3 mi
- Richardson - Bass Building: 0.4 mi
- Bertrose Park: 0.3 mi
- Will Rogers Memorial Center: 0.4 mi
- Fort Worth Botanic Garden: 0.7 mi
- Veteran's Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
- Monticello Park: 0.7 mi
- Cloud 9: 1.2 mi
- Selah: 1.3 mi
- Recess: 1.3 mi
- Giving and Receiving: 1.4 mi
- Backyard Princesses: 1.5 mi
- Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion West Gallery: 0.1 mi
- Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion South Gallery: 0.2 mi
- Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion Lobby: 0.2 mi
- Kimbell Art Museum Piano Pavilion North Gallery: 0.2 mi
- Kimbell Art Museum Kahn Building South Gallery: 0.2 mi
- Water Conservation Garden: 0.5 mi
- Pollinator Pathway: 0.6 mi
- Margery Leonard Courtyard: 0.6 mi
- Fort Worth Botanic Garden Gift Shop: 0.6 mi
- Adelaide Polk Fuller Garden: 0.6 mi
- Murray Hill: 11.9 mi
- Brushy Mound: 13.5 mi
- Blue Mound: 13.6 mi
- Turkey Peak: 14.4 mi
- Mount Donwell: 16.2 mi
- Sheri Capehart Nature Preserve: 10.4 mi
- Eagle Mountain Lake Park: 14.3 mi
- Crystal Canyon Nature Reserve: 16.0 mi
- Bob Jones Nature Center: 21.4 mi
- Fish Creek Forest Preserve: 21.9 mi
- Inspiration Point: 4.2 mi
- Lone Point: 8.0 mi
- Bluff Overlook: 10.3 mi
- Red Bluff: 18.5 mi
- Cedar Bluff: 24.7 mi
- Twin Points Beach: 11.2 mi
- Lynn Creek Park Beach: 21.3 mi
- Elizabethtown: 19.7 mi
- Sowers: 22.7 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 25 miles of Amon Carter Museum. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tater Nob | WSW 253° | 344 m | 22.8 mi |
| Tater Hill | WNW 302° | 343 m | 23.7 mi |
| Chattanooga Hill | WSW 258° | 330 m | 18.2 mi |
| Joe Bell Mountain | W 266° | 324 m | 21.6 mi |
| Nebo Mountain | WSW 247° | 316 m | 24.8 mi |
| Caddo Peak | S 187° | 303 m | 18.5 mi |
| Brushy Knob | S 189° | 303 m | 20.5 mi |
| Burton Knob | NW 309° | 278 m | 18.4 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:09 | 19:41 |
| June solstice | 06:23 | 20:05 | 20:41 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:29 | 16:50 | 17:28 |
Local time (America/Chicago).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Feb–May, Sep–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 48 | 52 | 60 | 67 | 75 | 82 | 86 | 86 | 79 | 69 | 57 | 49 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — FT Worth Meacham FLD Naaf, 5 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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