Atlantic express – The Meadows Museum in Dallas

Atlantic Express, our radio railway, reaches Dallas, in the heart of Texas, towards the northeast of that enormous State, so large that there is a humorous saying that there are some who still do not know that you can leave Texas. We are going in search of a dazzling museum whose collections of Spanish art stand out for their richness and value and also for the history of the foundation and origin of the museum itself. The Meadows Museum is a surprising space for its location and artistic power. Dallas is a colossal, extended, disproportionate city, with a huge economy, the epitome of a way of life, with great industrial development, with a complex personality, which bears the stereotype of the West and some clichés, but which also stands out for its research capacity or its university character. And in one of its powerful university campuses, incorporated as a main attraction, in a well-kept and quiet area, the modern building of the Meadows Museum stands out in the surroundings of SMU, the Southern Methodist University, a reference center for art where they are studied, They contemplate and catalog works by Murillo, Zurbarán, Picasso, Dalí or Velázquez…