Houston Museum District 

• Fourth largest museum district in the country with 18 museums within walking distance.

Houston Theater District

• Houston is one of only a few cities in the U.S. with resident professional companies in the four disciplines of the performing arts—ballet, opera, symphony and theater.

Alley Theatre

• Winner of the Regional Theatre Tony Award (1996).

Byzantine Fresco Chapel Museum

• Holds the only intact Byzantine frescoes in the Western Hemisphere.

The Children's Museum of Houston 

• Ranked as the No. 2 children's museum in the country by Child magazine and No. 1 by MSN.com.
• Named one of the top four children's museums in the U.S. by CheapOStay.com (2009).

The Health Museum 

• The most visited health museum in the country.

Houston Ballet

• Hailed by The New York Times as "...one of the nation's best ballet companies" (1997).

Houston Grand Opera

• The only opera company in the world which can boast Grammy, Tony and Emmy awards.

Houston Museum of Natural Science 

• Ranked No. 7 in ForbesTraveler.com's list of the 25 most visited museums in the U.S. (2009).

The Menil Collection 

• Included in Vanity Fair's Art Universe, a map of the international art scene, as one of the editors' favorite places to visit (2006). 
• The Cy Twombly Gallery at The Menil Collection is the only museum designed, built for and devoted to the work of a single living American artist. 

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

• The largest art museum in the Southwest

Rothko Chapel

• Listed by Yahoo! Travel as one of the top 10 U.S. places to see before you die (2008).
• On National Geographic's list of the world's "most sacred places."
• The only ecumenical center of its kind in the world.

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