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Dinosaurs! at the Houston Zoo
- May 03, 2012 to October 28, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Houston Zoo
- Address: 1513 North MacGregor, Houston, TX 77030
- Location: Houston Zoo
- Visit Website
Come face to face with the massive, fearsome creatures this summer. This year the Houston Zoo is featuring almost twice as many dinosaurs and highlighting species that were once found in Texas, with ...
Houston Restaurant Weeks
- August 01, 2012 to August 31, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Restaurants across Houston
- Visit Website
Houston Restaurant Weeks returns in August with more than 100 restaurants participating. The month-long event is designed to bring business to area eateries during a typically slow period and also ra...
Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition
- March 16, 2012 to September 03, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Address: One Hermann Circle Drive, Houston, TX 77030
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Visit Website
Experience Titanic 100 Years Later On April 15, 1912, Titanic, the world's largest ship, sank after colliding with an iceberg, claiming more than 1,500 lives and shaking the world's confidence in th...
Warriors, Tombs, and Temples: China’s Enduring Legacy
- March 30, 2012 to September 03, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Address: 5555 Hermann Park Drive, Houston, TX 77030
- Location: Houston Museum of Natural Science
- Visit Website
Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China’s First Emperor, declared one of the top 10 museum exhibitions by Time Magazine, set attendance records during its stint in the U.S., including a blockb...
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Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass
- July 20, 2012 to October 21, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Address: 5216 Montrose Blvd., Houston, TX 77006
- Location: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
- Visit Website
Alvin Baltrop: Dreams Into Glass, is the first major solo museum survey of work by this African-American photographer. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1948, Baltrop died from cancer in 2004 at a Manh...
Bodies Revealed
- March 09, 2012 to September 07, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Address: Seven Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX 77554
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Visit Website
Be among the first to explore the inner workings of the human body at the Bodies Revealed Exhibit. This fascinating exhibit is unlike anything seen at Moody Gardens before, with real and carefully pr...
Celebrity Mystery Theater
- February 04, 2012 to November 10, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Actor's Gem Productions
- Address: 901 W. Commerce St., Houston, 77002
- Visit Website
Imagine yourself enjoying dinner socializing with friends, having a few drinks ....when suddenly a murder is committed. Let the wacky antics of two famous detectives, never seen together before any w...
Cells: The Universe Inside Us
- January 28, 2012 to August 26, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: The Health Museum
- Address: 1515 Hermann Drive, Houston, TX 77004
- Location: The Health Museum
- Visit Website
Cells is a traveling exhibit from the Maryland Science Center. This interactive exhibit explores the complexity of the human body at the cellular level. The human body is made up of millions of ce...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
- June 26, 2012 to September 10, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Address: 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Visit Website
Renowned in his lifetime for his elegant designs and superior craftsmanship, Duncan Phyfe (1770–1854) remains to this day America’s most famous cabinetmaker. In the early 1800s, furniture...
Exhibition: Romance of Daily Life by Elena Vasilyeva
- July 20, 2012 to September 28, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
- Address: 2337 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Russian Cultural Center "Our Texas"
- Visit Website
Elena Vasilyeva is a member of the Alliance of Ukrainian Artists, living in Kharhiv, Ukraine. Vasilyeva has always been attracted by decorative art and its richness of techniques, non-typical ways...
Galveston Ghost Tours: Haunted Silk Stocking Historic District
- September 07, 2011 to December 22, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
- Address: 911 24th St., Galveston, TX 77550
- Visit Website
Step through the shadows, gather your courage and discover the chilling and ghastly tales of murder, revenge, passion, heartache and breath-taking history! This exciting Ghost Tour in Galveston takes...
Ghost Tour Haunted Heights
- September 17, 2011 to December 23, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Ghost Tours Texas.com
- Address: 3911 W. 19th Street, Houston, 77008
- Visit Website
Haunted Heights Ghost Tour takes you on a 90 minute fascinating walking tour through the historic and haunted Heights district featuring the spirits "living" within the fine Victorian homes...
Glass Graphica
- August 18, 2012 to October 14, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Address: 4848 Main Street, Houston, TX 77002
- Location: Houston Center for Contemporary Craft
- Visit Website
Houston Center for Contemporary Craft presents Glass Graphica, an exhibition about the possibilities of glass to convey graphic punch. The show also serves as an unlikely Texas reunion of two arti...
Instructables: Made In Your Mind Exhibit Debut
- May 29, 2012 to November 04, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Children's Museum of Houston
- Address: 1500 Binz, Houston, TX 77004
- Location: Children's Museum of Houston
- Visit Website
Made in Your Mind is a new hands-on, do-it-yourself exhibit that strives to instill the importance of problem-solving in kids through a hands-on, step-by-step process based on the concept of the Inst...
Kemah Ghost Tours: A Haunted Walking Tour of Legend, History and Mysteries
- January 07, 2012 to November 07, 2013 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Ghost Tours
- Address: 603 Bradford Ave., Kemah, 77586
- Visit Website
Take a journey through time to experience legend, history, and real life supernatural mysteries with Kemah's Ghost Tours. Enjoyable for all...skeptics and believers alike, this is not a haunted ...
Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London
- June 03, 2012 to September 03, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Address: 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Visit Website
This June the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, will debut the exhibition Rembrandt, Van Dyck, Gainsborough: The Treasures of Kenwood House, London, as part of a three-venue national tour in the U.S. An ...
Silence: Exploring the Realm of Silence in Modern and Contemporary Art
- July 27, 2012 to October 21, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: The Menil Collection
- Address: 1533 Sul Ross Street, Houston, TX 77006
- Visit Website
Inspired by John Cage's 1952 groundbreaking composition 4'33" (and the 100th anniversary of the composer's birth), Silence - co-organized by the Menil Collection and the University of California,...
The Pleiades Art Group Exhibition
- July 16, 2012 to September 14, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Blackburn Music
- Address: 4314 Yoakum, Suite 301, Houston, TX 77006
- Visit Website
The Pleiades Art Group is a group of seven artists who meet to inspire and to exhibit their artwork together. They are Donna Durbin, Deborah Horwitz, Tracey Meyer, Marité Preti, Ilana Reisz, C...
The Wizard of Oz 4D Experience
- March 12, 2012 to December 31, 2012 (Recurring every week day)
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Address: Seven Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX 77554
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Visit Website
This beloved classic becomes a modern adventure in The Wizard of Oz 4-D Experience. Newly restored in digital 3D with added special effects, be swept along with Dorothy as a powerful tornado transpor...
Tornado Alley 3D
- March 13, 2012 to August 30, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Address: Seven Hope Blvd., Galveston, TX 77554
- Location: Moody Gardens
- Visit Website
Filmed across America’s Plains states where three quarters of the world’s tornadoes occur, Tornado Alley 3D follows veteran storm chasers on two unprecedented missions. Guests will follow...
Treasures of Asian Art: A Rockefeller Legacy
- May 04, 2012 to September 16, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Asia Society Texas Center
- Address: 1370 Southmore Boulevard, Houston, TX 77004
- Location: Asia Society Texas Center
- Visit Website
"Treasures of Asian Art: A Rockefeller Legacy," an exhibition of 60 works from one of the finest collections of Asian art in the United States, inaugurates Asia Society Texas Center’s...
Unrivalled Splendor: The Kimiko and John Powers Collection of Japanese Art
- June 26, 2012 to September 24, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
- Address: 1001 Bissonnet, Houston, TX 77005
- Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Collectors Kimiko and John Powers began buying Japanese artwork in the 1960s. Over the next four decades they amassed 300 objects, building one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of Ja...
Vibrant Wave: Art Exhibition featuring Sophia Buddenhagen and Chandana Paravastu
- July 19, 2012 to September 08, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Address: 2802 White Oak, Houston, TX 77007
- Location: Public House
- Visit Website
In its second full-scale art exhibition, entitled Vibrant Wave, Public House Heights will feature paintings from local artists Sophia Buddenhagen and Chandana Paravastu. Buddenhagen, who received ...
We Will Never Forget: Selected Works from Brenner, Brysk and Yarden
- August 17, 2012 to December 31, 2012
- Location: Holocaust Museum Houston
- Address: 5401 Caroline, Houston, TX 77004
- Location: Holocaust Museum Houston
In We Will Never Forget, viewers will encounter the Holocaust through the eyes of three artists who survived. Max Brenner, Miriam Brysk and Paul E. Yarden use varying mediums; painting, prints and sc...
William Marsh Rice: The Man and His Legacy
- August 14, 2012 to November 04, 2012 (Recurring daily)
- Location: The Heritage Society
- Address: 1100 Bagby, Houston, TX 77002
- Location: The Heritage Society
- Visit Website
This exhibit tells the extraordinary life story of William Marsh Rice - from his business relationships and the growth of his incredible fortune, to his vision for Rice Institute and ultimately his s...
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