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Texas Attractions
Austin
The
exhibits at The
Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum tell "The Story of Texas" using more than
700 artifacts, 17 media and interactive experiences
and three floors of diverse exhibit space covering
34,000 square feet. The Museum's dramatic, three-story
central exhibit atrium features a circa 1940 AT-6
"Texan" airplane, a full-scale windmill,
the Capitol's original Goddess of Liberty and a vintage
"Texas" theater sign. Featuring the best
objects from around the state, the museum highlights
enduring themes in Texas history on each floor. www.thestoryoftexas.com
Fair Park
The
Women’s Museum:
An Institute for the Future is the nation’s first comprehensive women’s
history museum.
Located in historic Fair Park, the museum chronicles
the lives of American women using state-of-the-art
interactive exhibits to explore the women’s contributions
to American history, examines the similarities and
differences among women’s lives across time,
and inspires pride and hope for generations to come. Exhibits include Unforgettable
Women, Mothers
of Invention,
Funny Women
,
Pathways to Health
,
Sports and Adventure,
In the Spirit, Words
That Changed Our Lives and Leaders
& Innovators in Business and Technology. www.thewomensmuseum.org.
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Galveston
Island
The Aquarium
at Moody Gardens is one of the biggest
aquariums in the Southwest, holding 1.5-million gallons
of water. It showcases the waters of the North Pacific,
Edge of the Antarctic, Tropical Pacifics Great Barrier
Reef & Coral Sea and the colorful Caribbean. www.moodygardens.com
The
Grand 1894 Opera House,
a year-round performing arts theatre, has been magnificently
restored and is ranked among the nation's finest historical
restorations. No seat in the theatre is further than 70 feet
from the stage, offering a spectacular view. www.thegrand.com
The
Lone Star Flight Museum
is home to many world-class, award-winning aircraft.
The collection is composed of many aircrafts from
the era just before, during, and after WWII.
www.lsfm.org
Houston
The
Contemporary Arts Museum is
a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the finest
regional, national and international art of the last 40 years
in a dynamic exhibition schedule which is accompanied by publications
and educational programming for local, regional, national
and international audiences. www.camh.org
The Houston Museum of Natural
Science is the 4th most heavily attended
museum in the United States. The Museum is a five
part complex housing the Burke Baker Planetarium,
Wortham IMAX Theatre, Cockrell Butterfly Center and
three floors of natural science halls and exhibits.
Over a dozen permanent exhibit areas cover subjects
on astronomy, space science, Native Americans, paleontology,
energy, chemistry, gems and minerals, seashells, and
Texas wildlife. hmns.org
The Houston Center for Photography fosters a wide diversity of work, ranging from art
and documentary photography to photographic installations,
film and video. www.hcponline.org
At
the Houston Space Center,
guests get truly interactive with space exploration.
Guests get the chance to land the shuttle or retrieve
a satellite through computer simulation, to tour Johnson
Space Center and to see a number of pieces used in
space exploration. spacecenter.org
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston more than doubled its galleries for the display
of its permanent collection and special exhibitions, and catapults
the MFAH from thirtieth to sixth largest art museum in the
nation in terms of exhibition space. Highlights of the museum
include the Straus Collection of Renaissance and 18th-century
art and the Beck Collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist
art, including the creations of Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet,
Henri Matisse and Paul Gaugin. mfah.org
Plano
If
you're looking for something a little unusual then
it doesn't get more unusual than this. The Cockroach
Hall of Fame Museum fills the "dead
bugs dressed as celebrities and historical figures"
void in your life. Located in Plano, Texas in The
Pest Shop (a pest control business, the museum exhibit
consists of several dioramas featuring dead roaches
dressed as famous people doing famous things. www.savvycenter.com |
