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The Houston Museum of Natural Science (abbreviated as HMNS) is a natural history museum located on the northern border of Hermann Park in Houston, Texas, United States.The museum was established in 1909 by the Houston Museum and Scientific Society, an organization whose goals were to provide a free institution for the people of Houston focusing on education and science.
The Wortham Theater Center is a performing arts center located in downtown Houston, Texas, United States. The Wortham Theater Center, designed by Eugene Aubry of Morris Architects, was built out of private funds totaling over $66 Million. The City of Houston owns the building, and the Houston First Corporation operates the facility. [1]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
Named in honor of the Worthams are the Wortham Center, which is home of the Houston Ballet and the Houston Grand Opera, Gus Wortham Park, Gus Wortham memorial fountain, Wortham IMAX Theater at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Wortham World of Primates at the Houston Zoo, Lyndall Finley Wortham Theatre at the University of Houston, and ...
Wortham is located in the northwestern corner of Freestone County. Texas State Highway 14 runs through town as Third Street, leading north 10 miles (16 km) to Richland and Interstate 45, and south 8 miles (13 km) to Mexia. Fairfield, the Freestone County seat, is 18 miles (29 km) to the southeast.
The Houston Theater District, in north downtown, is home to Houston's eight performing arts organizations and includes the Alley Theatre, Hobby Center for the Performing Arts, Wortham Center, the Revention Music Center, and Jones Hall, home of the Houston Symphony Orchestra. The theater district is the second-largest performing arts district ...
Great news for anyone who remembers the Omni Theater at Fort Worth’s Museum of Science and History: it will reopen after a $21M overhaul to transform into an interactive digital experience.
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]