In December 2018, the Trammell and Margaret Crow family donated the entire collection of the Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art, together with $23 million of support funding, to The University of Texas at Dallas to create the Trammell and Margaret Crow Museum of Asian Art of The University of Texas at Dallas.

Seated Vairocana Buddha China, Ming dynasty, 15th century Bronze, gilding and pigment

In addition to maintaining museum operations in the collection’s current location in the Dallas Arts District, the University will design and construct a second museum on the UT Dallas campus, making a wider range of the full collection available for public viewing.

The collection was started by Dallas residents Trammell and Margaret Crow in the 1960s. Trammell Crow was known as one of the country’s most innovative real estate developers, and he developed an appreciation for the uniqueness and diversity of Asian art during numerous business trips abroad. 

The Crow Museum’s growing permanent collection contains more than 1,000 works from Cambodia, China (including Tibet), India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Thailand and Vietnam, spanning from ancient to the contemporary. The collection also includes a library of over 12,000 books, catalogs and journals.