SUGAR LAND — Museums exist to inspire wonder and facilitate creative thought. Given our curious natures and our innate desire to collect, it is no wonder the grand modern museum has its humble roots firmly planted in the privately-owned collections of extraordinary objects from the past. These collections, called wonder-chambers or wunderkammern in German-speaking Europe, […]

HOUSTON, TX—Come survive a plethora of cruel commodities, lesser known but highly dangerous. A new exhibition developed by the Houston Museum of Natural Science, Death by Natural Causes, features a wide variety of live animals, real poisonous vegetation and a collection of minerals that the world has never seen (and lived to tell the tale). […]

HOUSTON, TX—Come see for yourself what was once tossed into the water with the hopes to be found. A new exhibit, Message in a Bottle, features real-life messages in bottles discovered by CNN’s 2013 Hero of the Year Chad Pregracke, and is opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on Feb. 2, 2018. Pregracke […]

WHAT:          This Thursday, HMNS is giving media a first look inside the new permanent exhibition hall dubbed “Wiess Energy Hall 3.0.” The third iteration of this popular hall has enlarged from its previous 8,500 square feet to an expansive 30,000 square feet—almost the size of a football field. Joining the completely redesigned “classic” displays […]

Joining the completely redesigned “classic” displays in the new Wiess Energy Hall 3.0 is a bonanza of entirely new exhibits, making the new hall the most contemporary, comprehensive, and technologically advanced exhibition on the science and technology of energy anywhere in the world—opening Nov. 20, 2017. Here are some fascinating facts about “Energy City,” the […]

SUGAR LAND, TX— From its storied history, sweets have always been a part of human culture, thus their beginnings did not come from any machine but from natural, native plants that make up the farm-to-fork side of candy’s story. Candy continues to be an important industry worldwide. Just like smiles are the universal language, everyone loves […]

HOUSTON, TX— The loan of a spectacular work of art from the British Royal Collection to the Houston Museum of Natural Science will be the centerpiece of the new Dorothy and Artie McFerrin Gallery housed in the Cullen Hall of Gems and Minerals when it opens April 10th. The first installation in the gallery is the […]

HOUSTON, TX— It’s the culmination of decades of travel to exotic lands. An eclectic collection of unique artifacts acquired by Drs. Palmer Beasley and Lu Yu Hwang as their study of Hepatitis B took them to China, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Mexico and a host of other countries. Vanishing Arts: Highlights from the Beasley-Hwang Collection, opening […]

HOUSTON, TX— Giant screen movie-goers will soar above the world’s tallest bridge and travel at speeds approaching 700 mph when MacGillivray Freeman’s new 3D film, DREAM BIG: Engineering Our World, produced in partnership with American Society of Civil Engineers and presented by Bechtel Corporation, arrives in the Giant Screen Theatre at the Houston Museum of […]

HOUSTON-Now in its fifty-second year, Wildlife Photographer of the Year is the international leader of innovative visual representation in the natural world. This prestigious competition and resulting exhibition, opening at the Houston Museum of Natural Science Jan. 27, stimulates engagement with the diversity and beauty of the natural world. On loan from the Natural History […]