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On Thursdays, The Children's Museum of Houston is free after 5 p.m., [3] The Health Museum is free from 2–7 pm, [4] and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston is free 11 am - 9 pm. [5] The Houston Museum of Natural Science is free on Tuesdays between 5-8 pm. [6] Houston's Museum District is walkable and bikeable.
Heritage Society Museum: Houston Harris Part of Sam Houston Park, includes exhibits of local history, several historic houses and a church [88] Holocaust Museum Houston: Houston Harris The 1941-1945 Holocaust in Nazi Germany [89] Houston Bicycle Museum Houston Harris As of May 2022, owner was retiring and looking for a new owner [90]
The Orange Show is a work of outsider art in Houston, Texas. Jeff McKissack, a mail carrier, transformed a small suburban lot near his house into a folk art installation, which he named "The Orange Show" in honor of his favorite fruit. [1] [2] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
One of Houston's oldest public parks, Hermann Park was created on acreage donated to the City of Houston by cattleman, oilman and philanthropist George H. Hermann (1843–1914). The land was formerly the site of his sawmill. [7] It was first envisioned as part of a comprehensive urban planning effort by the city of Houston in the early 1910s. [4]
In February 1999, the city of Houston named Bayou Bend an official city landmark. [6] The heavily wooded 14 acres (5.7 ha) along Buffalo Bayou include eight formal gardens. Three of the gardens are named for a statue of a goddess or muse displayed in the garden, Clio, Diana and Euturpe. The other gardens are named White, East, Butterfly and ...
Includes restored or "newly built" 19th-century farm buildings with a special living history event Agrirama: Tifton: Georgia: Farm: website, includes five areas: a traditional farm community of the 1870s, an 1890s progressive farmstead, an industrial sites complex, rural town, Peanut Museum, and the Georgia Museum of Agriculture Center ...
Cockrell Butterfly Area, Houston Museum of Natural Science Space Center Houston is the official visitors’ center of NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center.Space Center Houston includes many interactive exhibits—including Moon rocks and a Space Shuttle simulator—in addition to special presentations that tell the story of NASA's crewed space flight program.
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston, Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project, including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020, [ 2 ] it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space.