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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.
The American Cowboy Museum is located on the Taylor-Stevenson Ranch. Established in 1988 by Mollie Taylor Stevenson Jr., the museum is focused on the art, history, and culture of the contributions of African Americans, Hispanic, Native Americans, and women to the development of the American West. [9]
The most well known resident, until the age of two was Octavia Hill after whom the museum is now named. [1] The Octavia Hill Society was established in 1992 and one aim was to create a museum to collect, exhibit, preserve, interpret and document materials that reflect her work and to act as a focal centre for the Society in her birthplace town.
The Health Museum; Holocaust Museum Houston; Houston Center for Contemporary Craft; Houston Fire Museum; Houston Fire Station No. 7; Houston Museum District; Houston Museum of Natural Science; Sam Houston Park
Bayou Bend Collection and Gardens, located in the River Oaks community in Houston, Texas, United States, is a 14-acre (57,000 m 2) facility of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) that houses a collection of decorative art, paintings and furniture. [2] Bayou Bend is the former home of Houston philanthropist Ima Hogg.
Museum District Station is a light rail station on the METRORail Red Line in Houston, Texas . It serves the Houston Museum District . [ 1 ] According to METRO, there are fourteen museums within four blocks of the Museum District Station.
The Audrey Jones Beck Building was designed by architect Rafael Moneo and opened to the public in 2000. It houses 158,150 ft² (14,693 m²) of galleries for the museum's permanent collection of antiquities, European painting and sculpture to 1900, American art, as well as temporary exhibitions.
As a non-collecting museum, it strives to provide a forum for visual arts of the present and recent past and document new directions in art, while engaging the public and encouraging a greater understanding of contemporary art through education programs. Contemporary Arts Museum Houston opened in 1972, in a building designed by Gunnar Birkerts. [2]