Last Thursday marked thirty years since the Sculpture Garden opened, so I thought it would be fitting to dig up a photo from thirty years ago and compare. I am amazed by how much the trees have grown, almost completely blocking out downtown and shading visitors from the Texas sun.
![Sculpture Garden on opening day sculpture_garden_opening_1983_001](https://i0.wp.com/blog.dma.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/sculpture_garden_opening_1983_001.jpg?resize=450%2C297)
Sculpture Garden with its first visitors on opening day, October 10, 1983. The garden opened a few months before the Museum.
Hillary Bober is the digital archivist at the Dallas Museum of Art.