The Dallas Art Association operated a public gallery or museum under various names from 1903-1970. The collection includes DAA board of trustee minutes, budget and membership records, miscellaneous publications and ephemera, and scrapbooks. The collection is arranged into 5 series: Minutes, Administrative, Publications, Exhibitions, and Accurals.

The Dallas Museum for Contemporary Arts (DMCA) was founded 1956 to support the collecting and exhibition of contemporary art in Dallas, and continued until it merged with the Dallas Museum of Fine Art in 1963. The collection is arranged in three series: Adminstrative, Exhibition and Scrapbooks.

Collection contains audio recordings and transcripts of programs, lectures, and events that have taken place at the Dallas Museum of Art.

Recordings are arranged by associated series and within each series chronologically by event date.

This collection consists of binders documenting marketing and communications efforts for exhibitions and programs. Marketing binders may include: background, budget, media plan, sponsorship, printed material, outdoor signage (banners, billboards, buses), print ads, TV/Radio, and PR. The collection also contains sponsor reports summarizing marketing efforts for promotional sponsors.

This collection consists of audiovisual media and transcripts from the DMA Archives oral history program. The Oral History Program includes interviews with significant figures associated with the Dallas Museum of Art throughout its history. Interviews date from 1973 to the present.

The collection contains press kits compliled by the Communications department for press previews. Kits can contain press releases, staff biographys, images of objects, program guides and other ephemera. Press kits are arranged chronologically and are primarily for exhibitions.

The collection consists of unbound pages from two scrapbooks: one of the museum building and activities and one of the collection.

This collection contains reference copies of oral history interviews from the Dallas Public Library collection with people relevant to DMA history. The bulk of the collection is a series of interviews with Jerry Bywaters, but the collection also includes copies of interviews with Juanita Bromberg, Velma Dozier and R.L. Thornton Jr.

This collection contains the reproductions of images produced for the timeline wall of the exhibition DallasSITES: Charting Contemporary Art, 1963-present, held at the Dallas Museum of Art in 2013; the printed timeline labels that were available in the exhibition; and a checklist of all objects in the exhibition.